A2 motorway
E15062
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.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A2 motorway canonical | 22 |
| A-2 motorway | 3 |
| A2 motorway (Germany) | 1 |
| A2 motorway (Miloš the Great Motorway) | 1 |
| A2 motorway (Netherlands) | 1 |
| A2 motorway (Portugal) | 1 |
| A2 motorway (Switzerland) | 1 |
| A2 motorway in Poland | 1 |
| A2 motorway in the Netherlands | 1 |
| Autovía A-2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T109724 — 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: A2 motorway Context triple: [A22 motorway, connectsTo, A2 motorway]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
M90 motorway
The M90 motorway is a major Scottish highway linking Edinburgh to Perth and serving as a key north–south route in eastern Scotland.
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D.
M56 motorway
The M56 motorway is a major road in North West England that connects Manchester to North Wales and serves as a key route to Manchester Airport.
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E.
M67 motorway
The M67 motorway is a short motorway in North West England that links the M60 near Manchester towards Hyde and is intended as the first section of a never-completed route to Sheffield.
- 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: A2 motorway Target entity description: 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.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
M90 motorway
The M90 motorway is a major Scottish highway linking Edinburgh to Perth and serving as a key north–south route in eastern Scotland.
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D.
M56 motorway
The M56 motorway is a major road in North West England that connects Manchester to North Wales and serves as a key route to Manchester Airport.
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E.
M67 motorway
The M67 motorway is a short motorway in North West England that links the M60 near Manchester towards Hyde and is intended as the first section of a never-completed route to Sheffield.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motorway
ⓘ
road infrastructure ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
European motorways
ⓘ
long-distance trunk roads ⓘ |
| connectsTo | A22 motorway ⓘ |
| connectsWith | several important motorways ⓘ |
| designedFor | high-speed vehicular traffic ⓘ |
| hasAccessControl | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central reservation
ⓘ
grade-separated interchanges ⓘ hard shoulder ⓘ limited access points ⓘ |
| hasFunction | long-distance traffic route ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith | A22 motorway ⓘ |
| hasLanes | multiple carriageway lanes ⓘ |
| hasRoadType | motorway-standard road ⓘ |
| hasTraffic | motor vehicles only ⓘ |
| isPartOf | major European highway system ⓘ |
| networkRole | strategic corridor for regional connectivity ⓘ |
| partOf | European road network ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary route ⓘ |
| role | key route for long-distance traffic ⓘ |
| safetyDesign | divided highway ⓘ |
| supports |
intercity traffic
ⓘ
international traffic ⓘ |
| surfaceType | paved road ⓘ |
| transportMode | road transport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
long-distance travel ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
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: A2 motorway Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A2 motorway (Netherlands)
this entity surface form:
A2 motorway (Switzerland)
this entity surface form:
Autovía A-2
this entity surface form:
A2 motorway (Germany)
this entity surface form:
A-2 motorway
this entity surface form:
A-2 motorway
this entity surface form:
A2 motorway in the Netherlands
this entity surface form:
A2 motorway (Portugal)
subject surface form:
Expressway S19
this entity surface form:
A2 motorway in Poland
this entity surface form:
A2 motorway (Miloš the Great Motorway)