M42
E375823
M42 is a major motorway in the West Midlands region of England that forms part of the orbital route around Birmingham and connects several key motorways.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M42 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3640859 — 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: M42 Context triple: [M42 motorway, hasRoadNumber, M42]
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A.
M45
M45 is the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye and known since antiquity.
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B.
M44
M44 is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe, and is one of the nearest and most prominent clusters visible to the naked eye.
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C.
M67
M67 is a short motorway in Greater Manchester, England, connecting the M60 near Denton towards Hyde and intended as the first section of an unrealized trans-Pennine route.
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D.
M-45
M-45 is a state highway in Michigan that runs east–west through the Grand Rapids area toward the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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E.
M-22
M-22 is a scenic state highway in Michigan renowned for its picturesque route along the Lake Michigan shoreline and through the Leelanau Peninsula near Traverse 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: M42 Target entity description: M42 is a major motorway in the West Midlands region of England that forms part of the orbital route around Birmingham and connects several key motorways.
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A.
M45
M45 is the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye and known since antiquity.
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B.
M44
M44 is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe, and is one of the nearest and most prominent clusters visible to the naked eye.
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C.
M67
M67 is a short motorway in Greater Manchester, England, connecting the M60 near Denton towards Hyde and intended as the first section of an unrealized trans-Pennine route.
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D.
M-45
M-45 is a state highway in Michigan that runs east–west through the Grand Rapids area toward the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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E.
M-22
M-22 is a scenic state highway in Michigan renowned for its picturesque route along the Lake Michigan shoreline and through the Leelanau Peninsula near Traverse City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motorway
ⓘ
road in England ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
M1 motorway
ⓘ
M40 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ M5 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ M6 Toll ⓘ
surface form:
M6 Toll motorway
M6 motorway ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| formsLinkBetween |
M5 corridor and M1 corridor
ⓘ
South Wales and East Midlands ⓘ South West England and East Midlands ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
smart motorway sections
ⓘ
variable speed limits on some sections ⓘ |
| hasJunctionNumbering | Junctions 1 to 11 (mainline) ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
M1 motorway at Junction 23A
ⓘ
M40 motorway at Junction 3A ⓘ M5 motorway at Junction 4A ⓘ M6 Toll motorway at Junction 8 ⓘ M6 motorway at Junction 7 ⓘ |
| hasServiceArea |
Hopwood Park services
ⓘ
Membury ⓘ
surface form:
Membury services
Tamworth services ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | 70 mph national speed limit (typical) ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Birmingham motorway box (outer orbital) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
West Midlands
ⓘ
surface form:
West Midlands region
|
| maintainedBy | National Highways ⓘ |
| openedInPeriod |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| partOf |
orbital route around Birmingham
ⓘ
strategic road network of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Birmingham
ⓘ
Birmingham Airport via link roads ⓘ Bromsgrove ⓘ National Exhibition Centre (NEC) via link roads ⓘ Redditch ⓘ Solihull ⓘ Tamworth ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Leicestershire
ⓘ
Warwickshire ⓘ West Midlands ⓘ |
| roadNumberingScheme | M-designated motorway ⓘ |
| roadType | dual carriageway ⓘ |
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: M42 Description of subject: M42 is a major motorway in the West Midlands region of England that forms part of the orbital route around Birmingham and connects several key motorways.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.