Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway
E591671
The Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway is a major regional expressway in Japan that links the Kyoto and Fukui prefecture areas, improving access between inland cities and the Sea of Japan coast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6083515 — 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: Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway Context triple: [Fukuchiyama, hasExpresswayAccess, Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway]
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A.
Ken-Ō Expressway
The Ken-Ō Expressway is a major orbital expressway in the Greater Tokyo area that forms part of the Metropolitan Inter-City Expressway network, helping divert traffic around central Tokyo.
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B.
Nishiseto Expressway
The Nishiseto Expressway is a scenic expressway in western Japan that links Japan’s main island of Honshu with Shikoku via a series of bridges across the Seto Inland Sea.
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C.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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D.
Shin-Meishin Expressway
The Shin-Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese expressway that serves as an alternative and bypass route to the original Meishin Expressway, helping to alleviate congestion in the Kansai region.
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E.
Kan-Etsu Expressway
The Kan-Etsu Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting the Tokyo metropolitan area with Gunma and Niigata Prefectures, serving as a key route to the Sea of Japan coast and popular ski and hot spring regions.
- 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: Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway Target entity description: The Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway is a major regional expressway in Japan that links the Kyoto and Fukui prefecture areas, improving access between inland cities and the Sea of Japan coast.
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A.
Ken-Ō Expressway
The Ken-Ō Expressway is a major orbital expressway in the Greater Tokyo area that forms part of the Metropolitan Inter-City Expressway network, helping divert traffic around central Tokyo.
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B.
Nishiseto Expressway
The Nishiseto Expressway is a scenic expressway in western Japan that links Japan’s main island of Honshu with Shikoku via a series of bridges across the Seto Inland Sea.
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C.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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D.
Shin-Meishin Expressway
The Shin-Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese expressway that serves as an alternative and bypass route to the original Meishin Expressway, helping to alleviate congestion in the Kansai region.
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E.
Kan-Etsu Expressway
The Kan-Etsu Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting the Tokyo metropolitan area with Gunma and Niigata Prefectures, serving as a key route to the Sea of Japan coast and popular ski and hot spring regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expressway
ⓘ
toll road ⓘ |
| accessControl | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
coastal areas of Fukui Prefecture
ⓘ
inland cities of Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| function |
freight transport route
ⓘ
regional transportation corridor ⓘ tourism access route ⓘ |
| hasAccessTo | Sea of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCarriageway | dual carriageway (in many sections) ⓘ |
| hasDirection | inland to Sea of Japan coast ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImpactOn |
Fukui Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kyoto Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| improvesAccessBetween |
Fukui Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kyoto Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| improvesConnectivityBetween | inland cities and coastal cities on the Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| isMajor | regional expressway ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fukui Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ |
| partOf | regional expressway network of Japan ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Kansai region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sea of Japan coast ⓘ |
| roadNetwork | Japanese expressway network ⓘ |
| roadType | high-standard highway ⓘ |
| serves |
Maizuru area
ⓘ
Wakasa area ⓘ |
| usedFor | motor vehicle traffic ⓘ |
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: Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway Description of subject: The Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway is a major regional expressway in Japan that links the Kyoto and Fukui prefecture areas, improving access between inland cities and the Sea of Japan coast.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.