E40 motorway
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The E40 motorway is a major trans-European highway stretching from Calais in France across multiple countries to Kazakhstan, serving as a key east–west transport corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| E40 motorway canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3697746 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E40 motorway Context triple: [Aalter, hasTransportConnection, E40 motorway]
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A.
E20 motorway
The E20 motorway is a major European route that runs across several countries in Northern Europe, including Denmark, where it connects key cities and regions such as Copenhagen and the island of Amager.
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B.
A40 motorway
The A40 motorway, nicknamed the "Autoroute Blanche," is a major French alpine highway linking Mâcon to the Mont Blanc region and providing a key route toward Switzerland and Italy.
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C.
A16 motorway
The A16 motorway is a major French highway in northern France that connects the Paris region to the Channel coast and Belgium.
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D.
A14 motorway
The A14 motorway is a major Italian highway running along the Adriatic coast, connecting Bologna with Taranto and serving numerous coastal cities including Pescara.
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E.
A14 motorway
The A14 motorway is a French autoroute that serves as a key western approach into Paris, helping connect the suburbs of the Hauts-de-Seine department with the capital’s road network.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E40 motorway Target entity description: The E40 motorway is a major trans-European highway stretching from Calais in France across multiple countries to Kazakhstan, serving as a key east–west transport corridor.
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A.
E20 motorway
The E20 motorway is a major European route that runs across several countries in Northern Europe, including Denmark, where it connects key cities and regions such as Copenhagen and the island of Amager.
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B.
A40 motorway
The A40 motorway, nicknamed the "Autoroute Blanche," is a major French alpine highway linking Mâcon to the Mont Blanc region and providing a key route toward Switzerland and Italy.
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C.
A16 motorway
The A16 motorway is a major French highway in northern France that connects the Paris region to the Channel coast and Belgium.
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D.
A14 motorway
The A14 motorway is a major Italian highway running along the Adriatic coast, connecting Bologna with Taranto and serving numerous coastal cities including Pescara.
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E.
A14 motorway
The A14 motorway is a French autoroute that serves as a key western approach into Paris, helping connect the suburbs of the Hauts-de-Seine department with the capital’s road network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
European route
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international road ⓘ trans-European transport corridor ⓘ |
| continentTraversed |
Asia
NERFINISHED
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Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryTraversed |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ Ukraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designationByUNECE | E40 ⓘ |
| direction | west–east ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Ridder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminusCountry | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | multiple national road authorities ⓘ |
| partOf | International E-road network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCity |
Aachen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aktobe NERFINISHED ⓘ Astrakhan NERFINISHED ⓘ Atyrau NERFINISHED ⓘ Bruges NERFINISHED ⓘ Brussels NERFINISHED ⓘ Calais NERFINISHED ⓘ Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ Dortmund NERFINISHED ⓘ Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ Dunkirk NERFINISHED ⓘ Erfurt NERFINISHED ⓘ Essen NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghent NERFINISHED ⓘ Görlitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Kassel NERFINISHED ⓘ Kharkiv NERFINISHED ⓘ Khmelnytskyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kraków NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyiv NERFINISHED ⓘ Liège NERFINISHED ⓘ Luhansk NERFINISHED ⓘ Lviv NERFINISHED ⓘ Poltava NERFINISHED ⓘ Ridder NERFINISHED ⓘ Rzeszów NERFINISHED ⓘ Ternopil NERFINISHED ⓘ Vinnytsia NERFINISHED ⓘ Volgograd NERFINISHED ⓘ Wrocław NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulationFramework | AGR European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | major east–west transport corridor ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Calais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: E40 motorway Description of subject: The E40 motorway is a major trans-European highway stretching from Calais in France across multiple countries to Kazakhstan, serving as a key east–west transport corridor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.