QEW highway
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The QEW highway (Queen Elizabeth Way) is a major controlled-access freeway in Ontario, Canada, connecting Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and serving as a key route to the U.S. border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| QEW highway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10081265 — 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: QEW highway Context triple: [Martindale Pond, near, QEW highway]
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A.
Ontario Highway 41
Ontario Highway 41 is a provincial highway in eastern Ontario, Canada, that runs north–south through rural communities and scenic countryside, connecting the Ottawa Valley with regions to the south.
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B.
Ontario Highway 33
Ontario Highway 33 is a provincial highway in southeastern Ontario that runs along the north shore of Lake Ontario, connecting communities such as Kingston and Picton and serving as part of the scenic Loyalist Parkway route.
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C.
Ontario Highway 11
Ontario Highway 11 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, that runs north–south through much of Northern Ontario and serves as a key route connecting numerous remote and rural communities.
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D.
Ontario Highway 8
Ontario Highway 8 is a provincially maintained highway in southwestern Ontario that connects several communities, including Stratford, to larger regional routes and urban centers.
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E.
Ontario Highway 404
Ontario Highway 404 is a major north–south controlled-access freeway in the Greater Toronto Area that connects Toronto to communities in York Region and extends toward Georgina, Ontario.
- 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: QEW highway Target entity description: The QEW highway (Queen Elizabeth Way) is a major controlled-access freeway in Ontario, Canada, connecting Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and serving as a key route to the U.S. border.
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A.
Ontario Highway 41
Ontario Highway 41 is a provincial highway in eastern Ontario, Canada, that runs north–south through rural communities and scenic countryside, connecting the Ottawa Valley with regions to the south.
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B.
Ontario Highway 33
Ontario Highway 33 is a provincial highway in southeastern Ontario that runs along the north shore of Lake Ontario, connecting communities such as Kingston and Picton and serving as part of the scenic Loyalist Parkway route.
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C.
Ontario Highway 11
Ontario Highway 11 is a major provincial highway in Ontario, Canada, that runs north–south through much of Northern Ontario and serves as a key route connecting numerous remote and rural communities.
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D.
Ontario Highway 8
Ontario Highway 8 is a provincially maintained highway in southwestern Ontario that connects several communities, including Stratford, to larger regional routes and urban centers.
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E.
Ontario Highway 404
Ontario Highway 404 is a major north–south controlled-access freeway in the Greater Toronto Area that connects Toronto to communities in York Region and extends toward Georgina, Ontario.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
controlled-access highway
ⓘ
freeway ⓘ road transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| abbreviation | QEW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| accessControl | grade-separated interchanges ⓘ |
| belongsTo | 401-series style freeway system in Southern Ontario ⓘ |
| connects |
Niagara Peninsula
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. border at Niagara region ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Interstate highway network in the United States via Peace Bridge ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
interchanges instead of intersections
ⓘ
median barrier ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Gardiner Expressway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Highway 403 NERFINISHED ⓘ Highway 405 NERFINISHED ⓘ Highway 406 NERFINISHED ⓘ Highway 427 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Queen Elizabeth Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShortName | QEW highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasToll | no ⓘ |
| isOneOf | busiest highways in Ontario ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ontario ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Ministry of Transportation of Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedAs | dual highway ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Lake Ontario shoreline in parts ⓘ |
| partOf | Ontario provincial highway network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Burlington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississauga NERFINISHED ⓘ Niagara Falls, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakville NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Catharines NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Golden Horseshoe
NERFINISHED
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Greater Toronto Area ⓘ Niagara Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| roadType | controlled-access freeway ⓘ |
| speedLimit | typically 100 km/h ⓘ |
| terminusNear |
Fort Erie, Ontario
NERFINISHED
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Peace Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial freight traffic
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commuter traffic ⓘ tourist traffic to Niagara Falls ⓘ |
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: QEW highway Description of subject: The QEW highway (Queen Elizabeth Way) is a major controlled-access freeway in Ontario, Canada, connecting Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and serving as a key route to the U.S. border.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.