A338 road
E238619
The A338 road is a major route in southern England that runs from Poole in Dorset to Besselsleigh near Oxford, connecting several towns and communities along its length.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A338 road canonical | 16 |
| A338 northbound | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T932457 — 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: A338 road Context triple: [Tidworth, roadServedBy, A338 road]
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A.
A308 road
The A308 road is a significant route in southern England that connects parts of London with towns in Surrey and Berkshire, running near the River Thames and serving both local and through traffic.
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B.
A306 road
The A306 road is a minor A-road in southwest London connecting the A3 with areas such as Barnes and Hammersmith, serving as a local distributor route across the River Thames corridor.
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C.
A34 road
The A34 road is a major trunk route in England running from Winchester in Hampshire to Salford near Manchester, serving as a key north–south link and bypassing cities such as Oxford and Newbury.
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D.
A31 road
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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E.
A325 road
The A325 road is a primary route in southern England that connects Farnham in Surrey to the A3 and continues south through towns such as Aldershot and Bordon toward Hampshire.
- 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: A338 road Target entity description: The A338 road is a major route in southern England that runs from Poole in Dorset to Besselsleigh near Oxford, connecting several towns and communities along its length.
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A.
A308 road
The A308 road is a significant route in southern England that connects parts of London with towns in Surrey and Berkshire, running near the River Thames and serving both local and through traffic.
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B.
A306 road
The A306 road is a minor A-road in southwest London connecting the A3 with areas such as Barnes and Hammersmith, serving as a local distributor route across the River Thames corridor.
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C.
A34 road
The A34 road is a major trunk route in England running from Winchester in Hampshire to Salford near Manchester, serving as a key north–south link and bypassing cities such as Oxford and Newbury.
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D.
A31 road
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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E.
A325 road
The A325 road is a primary route in southern England that connects Farnham in Surrey to the A3 and continues south through towns such as Aldershot and Bordon toward Hampshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | road in England ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
A303 road
ⓘ
A31 road ⓘ A342 road ⓘ A346 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A35 road ⓘ A354 road ⓘ A36 road ⓘ A4 road ⓘ A420 road NERFINISHED ⓘ M4 motorway ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crossesRiver |
River Avon
ⓘ
River Kennet ⓘ |
| endCounty | Oxfordshire ⓘ |
| endPoint | Besselsleigh ⓘ |
| hasSectionName |
Spur Road
ⓘ
Wessex Way ⓘ |
| locatedIn | England ⓘ |
| locatedInCounty |
Berkshire
ⓘ
Dorset ⓘ Hampshire ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ Wiltshire ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Southern England
ⓘ
linked to:
southern England
|
| maintainedBy |
National Highways
ⓘ
local highway authorities ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Besselsleigh
ⓘ
Bournemouth ⓘ Burbage ⓘ Christchurch ⓘ Downton ⓘ Fordingbridge ⓘ Great Shefford ⓘ Grove ⓘ Hungerford ⓘ Poole ⓘ Ringwood ⓘ Salisbury ⓘ Tidworth ⓘ Wantage ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A338 ⓘ |
| roadType | A road ⓘ |
| servesTown |
Bournemouth
ⓘ
Hungerford ⓘ Salisbury ⓘ Wantage ⓘ |
| startCounty | Dorset ⓘ |
| startPoint | Poole ⓘ |
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: A338 road Description of subject: The A338 road is a major route in southern England that runs from Poole in Dorset to Besselsleigh near Oxford, connecting several towns and communities along its length.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.