N8 road
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The N8 road is a major national primary route in Ireland that historically connected Dublin to Cork, passing through several counties including County Laois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| N8 road canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11040323 — 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: N8 road Context triple: [County Laois, hasPrimaryRoad, N8 road]
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A.
N8 road
The N8 road is a regional route in Belgium that connects the coastal city of Veurne with inland towns and cities, serving as an important link between West Flanders and the interior.
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B.
N83 road
The N83 road is a major national highway in eastern France that connects several towns and cities in the Jura and surrounding regions.
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C.
N81 road
The N81 road is a national secondary route in Ireland that runs southwest from Dublin through towns such as Blessington toward Tullow.
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D.
N9 road
The N9 road is a national route in South Africa that runs through the Eastern and Western Cape, linking several inland towns and serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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E.
N28 road
The N28 road is a national primary route in County Cork, Ireland, linking Cork city to the port town of Ringaskiddy and serving as a key access road to the region’s industrial and ferry facilities.
- 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: N8 road Target entity description: The N8 road is a major national primary route in Ireland that historically connected Dublin to Cork, passing through several counties including County Laois.
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A.
N8 road
The N8 road is a regional route in Belgium that connects the coastal city of Veurne with inland towns and cities, serving as an important link between West Flanders and the interior.
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B.
N83 road
The N83 road is a major national highway in eastern France that connects several towns and cities in the Jura and surrounding regions.
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C.
N81 road
The N81 road is a national secondary route in Ireland that runs southwest from Dublin through towns such as Blessington toward Tullow.
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D.
N9 road
The N9 road is a national route in South Africa that runs through the Eastern and Western Cape, linking several inland towns and serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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E.
N28 road
The N28 road is a national primary route in County Cork, Ireland, linking Cork city to the port town of Ringaskiddy and serving as a key access road to the region’s industrial and ferry facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national primary road
ⓘ
road in Ireland ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Cork
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerFunction | primary inter‑urban route between Dublin and Cork ⓘ |
| formerTerminus |
Cork
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
M7 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
N24 road NERFINISHED ⓘ N25 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalClassification | national primary route ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Republic of Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | Dublin–Cork corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
County Cork
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
County Kildare NERFINISHED ⓘ County Laois NERFINISHED ⓘ County Offaly NERFINISHED ⓘ County Tipperary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNetwork | Irish national primary road network ⓘ |
| roadNumber | N8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadStandard |
dual carriageway sections
ⓘ
single carriageway sections ⓘ |
| routeType | national primary road ⓘ |
| status | partially reclassified after construction of M8 ⓘ |
| supersededBy | M8 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long‑distance traffic between Dublin and Cork
ⓘ
regional traffic along its remaining sections ⓘ |
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: N8 road Description of subject: The N8 road is a major national primary route in Ireland that historically connected Dublin to Cork, passing through several counties including County Laois.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.