National Route 38
E423046
National Route 38 is a major national highway in Hokkaido, Japan, connecting several key cities and serving as an important transportation corridor across the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Route 38 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4225985 — 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: National Route 38 Context triple: [Obihiro, roadAccess, National Route 38]
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A.
National Route 37
National Route 37 is a major Japanese national highway in Hokkaido that connects the city of Muroran with other key regional destinations along the southwestern coast.
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B.
National Route 36
National Route 36 is a major Japanese highway in Hokkaido that connects the cities of Sapporo and Muroran, serving as an important coastal transportation corridor.
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C.
National Route 32
National Route 32 is a major Vietnamese highway that connects Hanoi with several northwestern provinces, serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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D.
National Route 32
National Route 32 was a former Australian national highway designation applied to the Great Western Highway corridor in New South Wales.
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E.
National Route 3
National Route 3 is a major Argentine highway that runs along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, connecting Buenos Aires with key southern cities including Comodoro Rivadavia.
- 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: National Route 38 Target entity description: National Route 38 is a major national highway in Hokkaido, Japan, connecting several key cities and serving as an important transportation corridor across the region.
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A.
National Route 37
National Route 37 is a major Japanese national highway in Hokkaido that connects the city of Muroran with other key regional destinations along the southwestern coast.
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B.
National Route 36
National Route 36 is a major Japanese highway in Hokkaido that connects the cities of Sapporo and Muroran, serving as an important coastal transportation corridor.
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C.
National Route 32
National Route 32 is a major Vietnamese highway that connects Hanoi with several northwestern provinces, serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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D.
National Route 32
National Route 32 was a former Australian national highway designation applied to the Great Western Highway corridor in New South Wales.
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E.
National Route 3
National Route 3 is a major Argentine highway that runs along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, connecting Buenos Aires with key southern cities including Comodoro Rivadavia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national highway
ⓘ
road in Japan ⓘ |
| connects |
Hakodate
ⓘ
Kushiro ⓘ
linked to:
Kushiro, Hokkaido
Muroran ⓘ Obihiro ⓘ Tomakomai ⓘ
linked to:
Tomakomai, Hokkaido
several key cities in Hokkaido ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
National Route 38
ⓘ
Route 38 ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
intercity road link
ⓘ
transportation corridor ⓘ |
| hasRouteNumber | 38 ⓘ |
| importance | major highway in Hokkaido ⓘ |
| isPartOf | infrastructure of Hokkaido ⓘ |
| isPublicRoad | true ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Hokkaido ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese national highway network ⓘ |
| regionServed | Hokkaido ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved road ⓘ |
| roadType | national route ⓘ |
| transportRole | east–west corridor in Hokkaido ⓘ |
| traverses | Hokkaido ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ road transport ⓘ |
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: National Route 38 Description of subject: National Route 38 is a major national highway in Hokkaido, Japan, connecting several key cities and serving as an important transportation corridor across the region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.