National Route 9
E748653
National Route 9 is a major Japanese national highway running along the Sea of Japan coast, connecting Kyoto with Shimonoseki and serving numerous cities in western Honshu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| National Route 9 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8655280 — 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 9 Context triple: [Asago, hasHighway, National Route 9]
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A.
National Route 9
National Route 9 is a major east–west highway in central Vietnam that runs through Quảng Trị Province and historically formed part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the route to the former U.S. base at Khe Sanh.
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B.
National Route 8
National Route 8 is a major Japanese highway running along the Sea of Japan coast, connecting key cities in the Kansai and Hokuriku regions.
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C.
National Route 2
National Route 2 is a major Japanese highway that runs along the southern coast of Honshu, linking Osaka with Fukuoka and serving numerous cities in western Japan.
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D.
National Route 10
National Route 10 is a major Vietnamese highway that runs through the Red River Delta, linking key northern coastal provinces and cities, including Nam Dinh.
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E.
National Route 17
National Route 17 is a major South Korean highway that runs north–south across the country, connecting multiple cities and regions including Eumseong County.
- 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 9 Target entity description: National Route 9 is a major Japanese national highway running along the Sea of Japan coast, connecting Kyoto with Shimonoseki and serving numerous cities in western Honshu.
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A.
National Route 9
National Route 9 is a major east–west highway in central Vietnam that runs through Quảng Trị Province and historically formed part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the route to the former U.S. base at Khe Sanh.
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B.
National Route 8
National Route 8 is a major Japanese highway running along the Sea of Japan coast, connecting key cities in the Kansai and Hokuriku regions.
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C.
National Route 2
National Route 2 is a major Japanese highway that runs along the southern coast of Honshu, linking Osaka with Fukuoka and serving numerous cities in western Japan.
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D.
National Route 10
National Route 10 is a major Vietnamese highway that runs through the Red River Delta, linking key northern coastal provinces and cities, including Nam Dinh.
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E.
National Route 17
National Route 17 is a major South Korean highway that runs north–south across the country, connecting multiple cities and regions including Eumseong County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national highway
ⓘ
road in Japan ⓘ |
| connects | Kyoto–Shimonoseki corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Hagi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Izumo NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ Masuda NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsue NERFINISHED ⓘ Shimonoseki NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamba NERFINISHED ⓘ Tottori NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyooka NERFINISHED ⓘ Yonago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Chūgoku region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kansai region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo | other Japanese national routes ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 国道9号 ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Japanese National Routes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMajorArteryFor | Sanin region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Honshu ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Honshu ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Government of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Sea of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Japan national highway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Hyōgo Prefecture
NERFINISHED
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Kyoto Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Shimane Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Tottori Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamaguchi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | western Honshu ⓘ |
| roadClassification | general national highway ⓘ |
| roadType | arterial road ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Sea of Japan coast ⓘ |
| servesCoastalArea | Sanin coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportNetworkRole | backbone route of western Honshu ⓘ |
| traversesCoast | Sea of Japan coast ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
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intercity traffic ⓘ regional commuting ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Shimonoseki 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: National Route 9 Description of subject: National Route 9 is a major Japanese national highway running along the Sea of Japan coast, connecting Kyoto with Shimonoseki and serving numerous cities in western Honshu.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.