the 405
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The 405 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, known for its heavy traffic and role as a key north–south transportation corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the 405 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2929402 — 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: the 405 Context triple: [Interstate 405, abbreviation, the 405]
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A.
S45
S45 is a Berlin S-Bahn suburban rail line that connects the city’s southern districts, including Berlin Brandenburg Airport, with the wider urban transit network.
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B.
The Forty-Fours
The Forty-Fours are a small, remote group of rocky islets forming the easternmost part of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands archipelago.
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C.
Line 4
Line 4 is a route of Mexico City’s Metrobús bus rapid transit system that serves key corridors with dedicated lanes and high-capacity articulated buses.
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D.
Line 4
Line 4 is a circular rapid transit route of the Shanghai Metro system that loops around central districts and provides key transfer connections across the network.
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E.
Line 4
Line 4 is a rapid transit line of the Barcelona Metro network that serves several central and coastal neighborhoods in the city.
- 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: the 405 Target entity description: The 405 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, known for its heavy traffic and role as a key north–south transportation corridor.
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A.
S45
S45 is a Berlin S-Bahn suburban rail line that connects the city’s southern districts, including Berlin Brandenburg Airport, with the wider urban transit network.
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B.
The Forty-Fours
The Forty-Fours are a small, remote group of rocky islets forming the easternmost part of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands archipelago.
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C.
Line 4
Line 4 is a route of Mexico City’s Metrobús bus rapid transit system that serves key corridors with dedicated lanes and high-capacity articulated buses.
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D.
Line 4
Line 4 is a circular rapid transit route of the Shanghai Metro system that loops around central districts and provides key transfer connections across the network.
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E.
Line 4
Line 4 is a rapid transit line of the Barcelona Metro network that serves several central and coastal neighborhoods in the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Interstate Highway in the United States
ⓘ
auxiliary Interstate Highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | I-405 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
I-405
ⓘ
San Diego Freeway ⓘ the 405 ⓘ |
| auxiliaryTo | Interstate 5 ⓘ |
| bypassOf |
Downtown Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
downtown Los Angeles
|
| category |
Transportation in Los Angeles County, California
ⓘ
Transportation in Orange County, California ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Interstate 10
ⓘ
Interstate 105 ⓘ Interstate 5 ⓘ State Route 118 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 134 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 22 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 73 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 91 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 101 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasFeature | high-occupancy vehicle lanes in some segments ⓘ |
| importance | one of the busiest freeways in the United States ⓘ |
| laneConfiguration | multiple lanes in each direction ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greater Los Angeles Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles metropolitan area
Southern California ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
|
| namedAfter |
San Diego Freeway
ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego Freeway corridor
|
| notableFor |
heavy traffic congestion
ⓘ
high traffic volumes ⓘ |
| opened | 1960s ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Interstate 5 in California
ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 5 in Southern California
|
| partOf | Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Los Angeles International Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
LAX
Los Angeles International Airport ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Los Angeles County
ⓘ
Orange County, California ⓘ
surface form:
Orange County
San Fernando Valley ⓘ |
| region |
Greater Los Angeles Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Los Angeles area
|
| role |
key north–south transportation corridor
ⓘ
major transportation corridor ⓘ |
| serves |
Long Beach
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ Orange County communities ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| terminusNorth | junction with Interstate 5 near Sylmar ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | junction with Interstate 5 near Irvine ⓘ |
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: the 405 Description of subject: The 405 is a major auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, known for its heavy traffic and role as a key north–south transportation corridor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 405 (California)
subject surface form:
Interstate 405 (California)