A40 motorway (nearby)
E84917
The A40 motorway is a major French highway in eastern France that connects the Lyon area to the Alps and the Mont Blanc region, facilitating international travel toward Switzerland and Italy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A40 motorway (nearby) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T688654 — 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: A40 motorway (nearby) Context triple: [Saint-Genis-Pouilly, hasRoadConnection, A40 motorway (nearby)]
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A.
A21 road (nearby)
The A21 road is a major route in southeast England that connects London with the coastal town of Hastings, passing through parts of Kent and East Sussex.
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B.
M66 motorway (nearby terminus)
The M66 motorway is a key route in North West England that connects the Greater Manchester area with towns in Lancashire, including providing access to Rawtenstall.
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C.
A-49 motorway
The A-49 motorway is a German autobahn in the state of Hesse that links the city of Kassel with the Schwalm-Eder region and is planned to be extended further south.
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D.
A22 motorway
The A22 motorway, also known as Via do Infante, is a major east–west toll highway in Portugal’s Algarve region that links coastal towns and connects to Spain.
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E.
A2 motorway
The A2 motorway is a major European highway that serves as a key route for long-distance traffic and connects with several important motorways, including the A22.
- 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: A40 motorway (nearby) Target entity description: The A40 motorway is a major French highway in eastern France that connects the Lyon area to the Alps and the Mont Blanc region, facilitating international travel toward Switzerland and Italy.
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A.
A21 road (nearby)
The A21 road is a major route in southeast England that connects London with the coastal town of Hastings, passing through parts of Kent and East Sussex.
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B.
M66 motorway (nearby terminus)
The M66 motorway is a key route in North West England that connects the Greater Manchester area with towns in Lancashire, including providing access to Rawtenstall.
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C.
A-49 motorway
The A-49 motorway is a German autobahn in the state of Hesse that links the city of Kassel with the Schwalm-Eder region and is planned to be extended further south.
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D.
A22 motorway
The A22 motorway, also known as Via do Infante, is a major east–west toll highway in Portugal’s Algarve region that links coastal towns and connects to Spain.
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E.
A2 motorway
The A2 motorway is a major European highway that serves as a key route for long-distance traffic and connects with several important motorways, including the A22.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French autoroute
ⓘ
motorway ⓘ |
| connects |
Lyon metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Lyon area
Mont-Blanc region ⓘ
surface form:
Mont Blanc region
Alps ⓘ
surface form:
the Alps
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| facilitates |
international travel toward Italy
ⓘ
international travel toward Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
link France with Italy by road
ⓘ
link France with Switzerland by road ⓘ |
| hasName | A40 ⓘ |
| languageOfDesignation | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern France ⓘ |
| partOf | French national motorway network ⓘ |
| passesNear | Mont Blanc ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
ⓘ
surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
|
| roadType | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| terminusArea | Lyon metropolitan area ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance road transport
ⓘ
tourist access to Alpine ski resorts ⓘ |
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: A40 motorway (nearby) Description of subject: The A40 motorway is a major French highway in eastern France that connects the Lyon area to the Alps and the Mont Blanc region, facilitating international travel toward Switzerland and Italy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.