A701 road
E141789
The A701 road is a major route in southern Scotland that connects Dumfries to Edinburgh, passing through towns such as Moffat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A701 road canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T627750 — 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: A701 road Context triple: [Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, locatedOn, A701 road]
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A.
A74 road
The A74 road was a major trunk route in the United Kingdom connecting England and Scotland, much of which has since been upgraded and replaced by the M74 motorway.
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B.
A57 road
The A57 road is a major route in England running between Liverpool and Lincoln, passing through cities such as Manchester and Sheffield.
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C.
A127 road
The A127 road is a major primary route in Essex, England, linking East London with Southend-on-Sea and serving as a key commuter and arterial corridor.
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D.
A148 road
The A148 road is a primary route in Norfolk, England, running between King's Lynn and Cromer and serving towns including Fakenham.
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E.
A47 road
The A47 road is a major east–west route in England that connects Birmingham to the east coast, including the town of Great Yarmouth.
- 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: A701 road Target entity description: The A701 road is a major route in southern Scotland that connects Dumfries to Edinburgh, passing through towns such as Moffat.
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A.
A74 road
The A74 road was a major trunk route in the United Kingdom connecting England and Scotland, much of which has since been upgraded and replaced by the M74 motorway.
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B.
A57 road
The A57 road is a major route in England running between Liverpool and Lincoln, passing through cities such as Manchester and Sheffield.
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C.
A127 road
The A127 road is a major primary route in Essex, England, linking East London with Southend-on-Sea and serving as a key commuter and arterial corridor.
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D.
A148 road
The A148 road is a primary route in Norfolk, England, running between King's Lynn and Cromer and serving towns including Fakenham.
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E.
A47 road
The A47 road is a major east–west route in England that connects Birmingham to the east coast, including the town of Great Yarmouth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
A road in Great Britain
ⓘ
road ⓘ |
| connects |
Dumfries
ⓘ
Edinburgh ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A702 road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A74(M) motorway ⓘ A75 road ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| partOf | United Kingdom road network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Dumfries and Galloway
ⓘ
Midlothian ⓘ Moffat ⓘ Scottish Borders ⓘ |
| region |
Dumfries and Galloway
ⓘ
Midlothian ⓘ Scottish Borders ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A701 ⓘ |
| roadType | primary route (in part) ⓘ |
| serves |
Dumfries
ⓘ
Edinburgh ⓘ Moffat ⓘ |
| terminusA | Dumfries ⓘ |
| terminusB | Edinburgh ⓘ |
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: A701 road Description of subject: The A701 road is a major route in southern Scotland that connects Dumfries to Edinburgh, passing through towns such as Moffat.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.