Nishiseto Expressway
E357670
The Nishiseto Expressway is a scenic expressway in western Japan that links Japan’s main island of Honshu with Shikoku via a series of bridges across the Seto Inland Sea.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nishiseto Expressway canonical | 12 |
| Nishiseto Expressway (Shimanami Kaido) | 1 |
| Nishiseto Expressway route | 1 |
| 西瀬戸自動車道 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3437849 — 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: Nishiseto Expressway Context triple: [Shimanami Kaido, partOf, Nishiseto Expressway]
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A.
Shin-Meishin Expressway
The Shin-Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese expressway that serves as an alternative and bypass route to the original Meishin Expressway, helping to alleviate congestion in the Kansai region.
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B.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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C.
Nishi-Meihan Expressway
Nishi-Meihan Expressway is a major expressway in Japan’s Kansai region that connects parts of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, serving as an important route for regional traffic and logistics.
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D.
Kan-Etsu Expressway
The Kan-Etsu Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting the Tokyo metropolitan area with Gunma and Niigata Prefectures, serving as a key route to the Sea of Japan coast and popular ski and hot spring regions.
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E.
Tōkai-Kanjō Expressway
The Tōkai-Kanjō Expressway is a major regional expressway in Japan that forms a loop around the Tōkai metropolitan area, connecting key cities and industrial zones in Aichi and surrounding prefectures.
- 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: Nishiseto Expressway Target entity description: The Nishiseto Expressway is a scenic expressway in western Japan that links Japan’s main island of Honshu with Shikoku via a series of bridges across the Seto Inland Sea.
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A.
Shin-Meishin Expressway
The Shin-Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese expressway that serves as an alternative and bypass route to the original Meishin Expressway, helping to alleviate congestion in the Kansai region.
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B.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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C.
Nishi-Meihan Expressway
Nishi-Meihan Expressway is a major expressway in Japan’s Kansai region that connects parts of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, serving as an important route for regional traffic and logistics.
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D.
Kan-Etsu Expressway
The Kan-Etsu Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting the Tokyo metropolitan area with Gunma and Niigata Prefectures, serving as a key route to the Sea of Japan coast and popular ski and hot spring regions.
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E.
Tōkai-Kanjō Expressway
The Tōkai-Kanjō Expressway is a major regional expressway in Japan that forms a loop around the Tōkai metropolitan area, connecting key cities and industrial zones in Aichi and surrounding prefectures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge–tunnel system
ⓘ
expressway ⓘ road ⓘ toll road ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Shimanami Kaido
ⓘ
Shimanami Kaido ⓘ
surface form:
Shimanami Kaidō
|
| connects |
Honshu
ⓘ
Shikoku ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Imabari
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Onomichi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| crosses | Seto Inland Sea ⓘ |
| hasDedicatedFacility | bicycle lane ⓘ |
| hasMajorBridge |
Hakata-Oshima Bridge
ⓘ
surface form:
Hakata-Ōshima Bridge
Ikuchi Bridge ⓘ Innoshima Bridge ⓘ Kurushima-Kaikyō Bridge ⓘ Tatara Bridge ⓘ Omishima Bridge ⓘ
surface form:
Ōshima Bridge
|
| hasNumberOfBridges | multiple ⓘ |
| hasScenicViewOf | Seto Inland Sea ⓘ |
| hasStructureType |
cable-stayed bridges
ⓘ
series of suspension bridges ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cycling route
ⓘ
scenic views ⓘ |
| languageOfName | ja ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seto Inland Sea
ⓘ
surface form:
Seto Inland Sea region
western Japan ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
NEXCO West Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
West Nippon Expressway Company
|
| officialName |
Nishiseto Expressway
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
西瀬戸自動車道
|
| openedAsRoad | 1999 ⓘ |
| operator |
NEXCO West Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
West Nippon Expressway Company
|
| partOf | Honshu–Shikoku Bridge Project ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Ehime Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hiroshima Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Chūgoku region
ⓘ
Shikoku ⓘ
surface form:
Shikoku region
|
| roadType | expressway ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| traversesIsland |
Hakatajima
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ikuchijima ⓘ Innoshima ⓘ Mukaishima NERFINISHED ⓘ Omishima NERFINISHED ⓘ Oshima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bicycle traffic
ⓘ
motor vehicle traffic ⓘ pedestrian traffic ⓘ |
| usesTollSystem | yes ⓘ |
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: Nishiseto Expressway Description of subject: The Nishiseto Expressway is a scenic expressway in western Japan that links Japan’s main island of Honshu with Shikoku via a series of bridges across the Seto Inland Sea.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nishiseto Expressway (Shimanami Kaido)
this entity surface form:
西瀬戸自動車道
this entity surface form:
Nishiseto Expressway route