A31 road
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The A31 road is a major route in southern England that connects Guildford in Surrey to Dorset, forming part of an important east–west corridor between London and the south coast.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A31 road canonical | 6 |
| A31 road (Hogs Back and Farnham) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T144415 — 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: A31 road Context triple: [Surrey, hasMajorRoad, A31 road]
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A.
A3 road
The A3 road is a major trunk route in England that connects London to Portsmouth, passing through counties such as Surrey.
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B.
A25 road
The A25 road is an important east–west route in South East England that runs through Surrey and connects several towns between Guildford and Sevenoaks.
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C.
A92 road
The A92 road is a major trunk route in eastern Scotland that connects several key towns and cities, including linking the area around Glenrothes to the wider regional road network.
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D.
A24 road
The A24 road is a major route in southeast England that connects London to the south coast, passing through counties such as Surrey and West Sussex.
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E.
A44 road
The A44 road is a major route in England that runs from Oxford through the Cotswolds and Worcestershire to Aberystwyth in Wales.
- 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: A31 road Target entity description: The A31 road is a major route in southern England that connects Guildford in Surrey to Dorset, forming part of an important east–west corridor between London and the south coast.
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A.
A3 road
The A3 road is a major trunk route in England that connects London to Portsmouth, passing through counties such as Surrey.
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B.
A25 road
The A25 road is an important east–west route in South East England that runs through Surrey and connects several towns between Guildford and Sevenoaks.
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C.
A92 road
The A92 road is a major trunk route in eastern Scotland that connects several key towns and cities, including linking the area around Glenrothes to the wider regional road network.
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D.
A24 road
The A24 road is a major route in southeast England that connects London to the south coast, passing through counties such as Surrey and West Sussex.
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E.
A44 road
The A44 road is a major route in England that runs from Oxford through the Cotswolds and Worcestershire to Aberystwyth in Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
A road in Great Britain
ⓘ
road in England ⓘ |
| connectsCity | Guildford ⓘ |
| connectsRegion | Dorset ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formsPartOf | east–west corridor between London and the south coast ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A3 road
ⓘ
A338 road ⓘ A35 road ⓘ |
| isMajorRoute | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | strategic road network in England ⓘ |
| locatedIn | England ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty | Surrey ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
southern England
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern England
|
| maintainedBy | National Highways ⓘ |
| network | Great Britain A roads ⓘ |
| partOfTransportCorridor | London to south coast route ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty | Surrey ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A31 ⓘ |
| roadType | primary route ⓘ |
| runsFrom | Guildford ⓘ |
| runsTo | Dorset ⓘ |
| servesFunction | link between London area and south coast ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
London travel corridor
ⓘ
South Coast of England ⓘ |
| terminusLocation |
Dorset
ⓘ
surface form:
Dorset, England
Guildford ⓘ
surface form:
Guildford, Surrey
|
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: A31 road Description of subject: The A31 road is a major route in southern England that connects Guildford in Surrey to Dorset, forming part of an important east–west corridor between London and the south coast.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A31 road (Hogs Back and Farnham)