Bundesautobahn 72
E1011634
Bundesautobahn 72 is a major German motorway in eastern Germany that connects the cities of Hof and Chemnitz, forming part of an important north–south and east–west transport corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bundesautobahn 72 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12600568 — 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: Bundesautobahn 72 Context triple: [Bundesstraße 7, hasJunctionWith, Bundesautobahn 72]
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A.
Bundesautobahn 71
Bundesautobahn 71 is a major German motorway in central Germany that connects the A38 near Sangerhausen with the A70 near Schweinfurt, running through Thuringia and Bavaria and including the long Rennsteig Tunnel.
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B.
Bundesautobahn 27
Bundesautobahn 27 is a major German motorway in northern Germany that connects the city of Bremen with Cuxhaven and the A7 near Walsrode, serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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C.
Bundesautobahn 7
Bundesautobahn 7 is one of Germany’s longest and most important north–south motorways, running from the Danish border through central Germany toward the Austrian border.
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D.
Bundesautobahn 96
Bundesautobahn 96 is a major German motorway running from Munich to the Lake Constance region, serving as an important east–west transport corridor in southern Germany.
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E.
Bundesautobahn 65
Bundesautobahn 65 is a German federal motorway in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate that connects the Karlsruhe area with the region around Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
- 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: Bundesautobahn 72 Target entity description: Bundesautobahn 72 is a major German motorway in eastern Germany that connects the cities of Hof and Chemnitz, forming part of an important north–south and east–west transport corridor.
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A.
Bundesautobahn 71
Bundesautobahn 71 is a major German motorway in central Germany that connects the A38 near Sangerhausen with the A70 near Schweinfurt, running through Thuringia and Bavaria and including the long Rennsteig Tunnel.
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B.
Bundesautobahn 27
Bundesautobahn 27 is a major German motorway in northern Germany that connects the city of Bremen with Cuxhaven and the A7 near Walsrode, serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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C.
Bundesautobahn 7
Bundesautobahn 7 is one of Germany’s longest and most important north–south motorways, running from the Danish border through central Germany toward the Austrian border.
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D.
Bundesautobahn 96
Bundesautobahn 96 is a major German motorway running from Munich to the Lake Constance region, serving as an important east–west transport corridor in southern Germany.
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E.
Bundesautobahn 65
Bundesautobahn 65 is a German federal motorway in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate that connects the Karlsruhe area with the region around Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Autobahn
ⓘ
motorway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BAB 72 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | federal trunk road system of Germany ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Chemnitz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ central Germany ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccessControl | full access control ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
east–west
ⓘ
north–south ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Bundesautobahn 14
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bundesautobahn 38 NERFINISHED ⓘ Bundesautobahn 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Bundesautobahn 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | road transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInState |
Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ Saxony-Anhalt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Bundesrepublik Deutschland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialName | Bundesautobahn 72 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork |
German Autobahn network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
trans-European road network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfTransportCorridor |
east–west corridor in eastern Germany
ⓘ
north–south corridor in eastern Germany ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Chemnitz region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ore Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Vogtland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadCategory | federal motorway ⓘ |
| roadType | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 72 ⓘ |
| shortName |
A 72
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A72 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speedLimit | German autobahn general rules ⓘ |
| traverses |
industrial areas
ⓘ
rural areas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
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: Bundesautobahn 72 Description of subject: Bundesautobahn 72 is a major German motorway in eastern Germany that connects the cities of Hof and Chemnitz, forming part of an important north–south and east–west transport corridor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.