National Route 4
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National Route 4 is a major Japanese highway running through the Tōhoku region, connecting Tokyo with Aomori and serving numerous cities and towns along its north–south route.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Route 4 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6447355 — 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: National Route 4 Context triple: [Kanegasaki, Iwate, Japan, servedByHighway, National Route 4]
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A.
National Route 34
National Route 34 was a former Australian national highway route designation that once applied to the Oxley Highway in New South Wales.
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B.
National Route 3
National Route 3 is a major South Korean highway that runs north–south, connecting multiple regions and cities across the country.
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C.
National Route 3
National Route 3 is a major Argentine highway that runs along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, connecting Buenos Aires with key southern cities including Comodoro Rivadavia.
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D.
National Route 37
National Route 37 is a major Japanese national highway in Hokkaido that connects the city of Muroran with other key regional destinations along the southwestern coast.
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E.
National Route 36
National Route 36 is a major Japanese highway in Hokkaido that connects the cities of Sapporo and Muroran, serving as an important coastal transportation corridor.
- 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: National Route 4 Target entity description: National Route 4 is a major Japanese highway running through the Tōhoku region, connecting Tokyo with Aomori and serving numerous cities and towns along its north–south route.
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A.
National Route 34
National Route 34 was a former Australian national highway route designation that once applied to the Oxley Highway in New South Wales.
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B.
National Route 3
National Route 3 is a major South Korean highway that runs north–south, connecting multiple regions and cities across the country.
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C.
National Route 3
National Route 3 is a major Argentine highway that runs along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, connecting Buenos Aires with key southern cities including Comodoro Rivadavia.
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D.
National Route 37
National Route 37 is a major Japanese national highway in Hokkaido that connects the city of Muroran with other key regional destinations along the southwestern coast.
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E.
National Route 36
National Route 36 is a major Japanese highway in Hokkaido that connects the cities of Sapporo and Muroran, serving as an important coastal transportation corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national highway of Japan ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Aomori
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasRouteType | National Route NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| majorHighwayForRegion | Tōhoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialName | 国道4号 ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | Japanese national highway network ⓘ |
| roadType | arterial road ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| runsThroughPrefecture |
Aomori Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fukushima Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Iwate Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Miyagi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Saitama Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Tochigi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsThroughRegion | Tōhoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
cities
ⓘ
towns ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | Aomori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
intercity travel ⓘ long-distance road transport ⓘ |
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: National Route 4 Description of subject: National Route 4 is a major Japanese highway running through the Tōhoku region, connecting Tokyo with Aomori and serving numerous cities and towns along its north–south route.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ōshū, Iwate, Japan