M18 motorway
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The M18 motorway is a major road in England linking the M1 near Rotherham to the M62 near Goole, providing a key route between South Yorkshire and the Humber region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M18 motorway canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1477481 — 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: M18 motorway Context triple: [South Yorkshire, hasMotorway, M18 motorway]
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A.
M11 motorway
The M11 motorway is a major road in England connecting London to Cambridge and serving as a key route for traffic between the capital, East Anglia, and the Midlands via the A14.
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B.
M8 motorway
The M8 motorway is a major Scottish highway linking the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and serving as a key east–west transport corridor across the Central Belt.
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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.
M40 motorway
The M40 motorway is a major English motorway linking London to Birmingham, serving as a key route through the Midlands and the southeast of England.
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E.
M2 motorway
The M2 motorway is a major road in southeast England that connects the outskirts of London with the north coast of Kent, providing a key route towards the Channel ports.
- 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: M18 motorway Target entity description: The M18 motorway is a major road in England linking the M1 near Rotherham to the M62 near Goole, providing a key route between South Yorkshire and the Humber region.
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A.
M11 motorway
The M11 motorway is a major road in England connecting London to Cambridge and serving as a key route for traffic between the capital, East Anglia, and the Midlands via the A14.
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B.
M8 motorway
The M8 motorway is a major Scottish highway linking the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and serving as a key east–west transport corridor across the Central Belt.
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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.
M40 motorway
The M40 motorway is a major English motorway linking London to Birmingham, serving as a key route through the Midlands and the southeast of England.
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E.
M2 motorway
The M2 motorway is a major road in southeast England that connects the outskirts of London with the north coast of Kent, providing a key route towards the Channel ports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | motorway in England ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
M1 motorway
ⓘ
M62 motorway ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| formsLinkBetween |
Humber region
ⓘ
South Yorkshire ⓘ |
| hasCarriagewayType | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| hasDirection |
northbound
ⓘ
southbound ⓘ |
| hasJunctionNumbering | sequential junction numbers ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A1(M) motorway
ⓘ
M1 motorway ⓘ M180 motorway ⓘ M62 motorway ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | 70 mph (typical UK motorway limit) ⓘ |
| isKeyRouteFor |
access to Humber ports
ⓘ
traffic between M1 and M62 ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor | route between Sheffield area and Hull area ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | National Highways ⓘ |
| near |
Doncaster
ⓘ
Goole ⓘ Rotherham ⓘ |
| partOf | motorway network of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Humber region
ⓘ
South Yorkshire ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary route ⓘ |
| roadNumber | M18 ⓘ |
| roadType | motorway ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
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: M18 motorway Description of subject: The M18 motorway is a major road in England linking the M1 near Rotherham to the M62 near Goole, providing a key route between South Yorkshire and the Humber region.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doncaster Sheffield Airport (closed)
subject linked to:
M62 motorway (nearby)
subject linked to:
M1 motorway (nearby)
subject linked to:
SCR
subject linked to:
Doncaster, United Kingdom