A71 road
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The A71 road is a major east–west route in Scotland that connects Edinburgh to Ayr, passing through areas including West Lothian.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A71 road canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1497232 — 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: A71 road Context triple: [West Lothian, hasTransport, A71 road]
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A.
A77 road
The A77 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that runs from Glasgow to the port town of Stranraer, serving as a key link between central Scotland and ferry services to Northern Ireland.
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B.
A70 road
The A70 road is a major route in Scotland that runs from Ayr on the west coast inland toward Edinburgh, connecting several towns across the central belt.
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C.
A74 road
The A74 road was a major trunk route in the United Kingdom connecting England and Scotland, much of which has since been upgraded and replaced by the M74 motorway.
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D.
A79 road
The A79 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that links the coastal town of Ayr with nearby communities and transport networks.
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E.
A701 road
The A701 road is a major route in southern Scotland that connects Dumfries to Edinburgh, passing through towns such as Moffat.
- 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: A71 road Target entity description: The A71 road is a major east–west route in Scotland that connects Edinburgh to Ayr, passing through areas including West Lothian.
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A.
A77 road
The A77 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that runs from Glasgow to the port town of Stranraer, serving as a key link between central Scotland and ferry services to Northern Ireland.
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B.
A70 road
The A70 road is a major route in Scotland that runs from Ayr on the west coast inland toward Edinburgh, connecting several towns across the central belt.
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C.
A74 road
The A74 road was a major trunk route in the United Kingdom connecting England and Scotland, much of which has since been upgraded and replaced by the M74 motorway.
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D.
A79 road
The A79 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that links the coastal town of Ayr with nearby communities and transport networks.
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E.
A701 road
The A701 road is a major route in southern Scotland that connects Dumfries to Edinburgh, passing through towns such as Moffat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road
ⓘ
trunk road ⓘ |
| connects |
Ayr
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| crosses |
M74 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M8 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ River Clyde NERFINISHED ⓘ River Irvine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A70 road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A72 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A720 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A725 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A73 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A737 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A77 road ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | A roads in Great Britain ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Transport Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish trunk road network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Bellshill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Darvel NERFINISHED ⓘ Hurlford NERFINISHED ⓘ Kilmarnock NERFINISHED ⓘ Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ Newmilns NERFINISHED ⓘ Stonehouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Strathaven NERFINISHED ⓘ Uddingston NERFINISHED ⓘ Wishaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
East Ayrshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ South Lanarkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ West Lothian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Ayrshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lanarkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Lothian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A71 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local traffic
ⓘ
long-distance traffic ⓘ regional traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Ayr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: A71 road Description of subject: The A71 road is a major east–west route in Scotland that connects Edinburgh to Ayr, passing through areas including West Lothian.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.