A40 motorway
E357833
The A40 motorway, nicknamed the "Autoroute Blanche," is a major French alpine highway linking Mâcon to the Mont Blanc region and providing a key route toward Switzerland and Italy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A40 motorway canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2513632 — 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: A40 motorway Context triple: [Autoroute Blanche, alsoKnownAs, A40 motorway]
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A.
A44 motorway
The A44 motorway is a major Dutch highway in the western Netherlands that connects the Amsterdam region with The Hague and the coastal area near Leiden.
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B.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major east–west highway in southern Poland that forms part of the European route E40, connecting key cities such as Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, and the Ukrainian border.
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C.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major Dutch highway that connects key cities including Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam, forming part of the European route network.
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D.
A14 motorway
The A14 motorway is a major Italian highway running along the Adriatic coast, connecting Bologna with Taranto and serving numerous coastal cities including Pescara.
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E.
A20 motorway
The A20 motorway is a major French highway running north–south through central and southwestern France, linking cities such as Vierzon, Limoges, and Toulouse.
- 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: A40 motorway Target entity description: The A40 motorway, nicknamed the "Autoroute Blanche," is a major French alpine highway linking Mâcon to the Mont Blanc region and providing a key route toward Switzerland and Italy.
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A.
A44 motorway
The A44 motorway is a major Dutch highway in the western Netherlands that connects the Amsterdam region with The Hague and the coastal area near Leiden.
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B.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major east–west highway in southern Poland that forms part of the European route E40, connecting key cities such as Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, and the Ukrainian border.
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C.
A4 motorway
The A4 motorway is a major Dutch highway that connects key cities including Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam, forming part of the European route network.
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D.
A14 motorway
The A14 motorway is a major Italian highway running along the Adriatic coast, connecting Bologna with Taranto and serving numerous coastal cities including Pescara.
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E.
A20 motorway
The A20 motorway is a major French highway running north–south through central and southwestern France, linking cities such as Vierzon, Limoges, and Toulouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French motorway
ⓘ
motorway ⓘ |
| connectsCity | Mâcon ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Mont-Blanc region
ⓘ
surface form:
Mont Blanc area
|
| connectsTo |
Italy
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| endPoint |
Mont-Blanc region
ⓘ
surface form:
Mont Blanc region
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| hasTerrain |
alpine
ⓘ
mountainous ⓘ |
| highwaySystem |
French autoroute network
ⓘ
surface form:
Autoroutes of France
|
| locatedIn | eastern France ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | French motorway concessionaires ⓘ |
| nickname | Autoroute Blanche ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor |
route toward Italy
ⓘ
route toward Switzerland ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Alps
ⓘ
Bresse ⓘ Bugey ⓘ Jura Mountains ⓘ |
| region |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
ⓘ
surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A40 ⓘ |
| roadType | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| role |
international transit route
ⓘ
major alpine highway ⓘ |
| startPoint | Mâcon ⓘ |
| toll | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance traffic
ⓘ
tourist traffic to ski resorts ⓘ |
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: A40 motorway Description of subject: The A40 motorway, nicknamed the "Autoroute Blanche," is a major French alpine highway linking Mâcon to the Mont Blanc region and providing a key route toward Switzerland and Italy.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.