A42 motorway
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The A42 motorway is a French autoroute in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that connects Lyon to the A40 and serves as a key route toward Geneva and eastern France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A42 motorway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10451005 — 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: A42 motorway Context triple: [Autoroute A40, hasJunctionWith, A42 motorway]
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A.
A41 motorway
The A41 motorway is a major French highway in the Alps that connects the cities of Grenoble, Chambéry, and Annecy, serving as a key north–south route through the region.
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B.
A45 motorway
The A45 motorway is a major German autobahn in western Germany that connects the Ruhr area with central regions such as Hesse and passes near towns including Dillenburg.
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C.
A44 motorway
The A44 motorway is a major Dutch highway in the western Netherlands that connects the Amsterdam region with The Hague and the coastal area near Leiden.
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D.
A48 motorway
The A48 motorway is a major French highway in southeastern France that links the city of Grenoble to the national motorway network, facilitating access toward Lyon and the wider region.
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E.
A46 motorway
The A46 motorway is a major German autobahn in North Rhine-Westphalia that connects several cities in the Ruhr and Bergisches Land regions.
- 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: A42 motorway Target entity description: The A42 motorway is a French autoroute in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that connects Lyon to the A40 and serves as a key route toward Geneva and eastern France.
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A.
A41 motorway
The A41 motorway is a major French highway in the Alps that connects the cities of Grenoble, Chambéry, and Annecy, serving as a key north–south route through the region.
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B.
A45 motorway
The A45 motorway is a major German autobahn in western Germany that connects the Ruhr area with central regions such as Hesse and passes near towns including Dillenburg.
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C.
A44 motorway
The A44 motorway is a major Dutch highway in the western Netherlands that connects the Amsterdam region with The Hague and the coastal area near Leiden.
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D.
A48 motorway
The A48 motorway is a major French highway in southeastern France that links the city of Grenoble to the national motorway network, facilitating access toward Lyon and the wider region.
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E.
A46 motorway
The A46 motorway is a major German autobahn in North Rhine-Westphalia that connects several cities in the Ruhr and Bergisches Land regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French autoroute
ⓘ
motorway ⓘ |
| accessRestriction | motor vehicles only ⓘ |
| connectsRegionTo | Rhône-Alpes to Jura and Alpine regions ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
A40 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| direction | west–east ⓘ |
| function |
long-distance transit route
ⓘ
regional commuter route ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A432 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A46 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
ⓘ
surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
eastern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | French national road authorities ⓘ |
| majorRouteTowards |
Geneva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French autoroute network ⓘ |
| regionServed | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A42 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| serves | eastern suburbs of Lyon ⓘ |
| terminusEast | A40 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusWest | Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportNetwork | European road network ⓘ |
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: A42 motorway Description of subject: The A42 motorway is a French autoroute in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that connects Lyon to the A40 and serves as a key route toward Geneva and eastern France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.