QEW
E478849
QEW is a major controlled-access highway in Ontario, Canada, connecting Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and serving as a key route to the U.S. border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| QEW canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4913592 — 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: QEW Context triple: [Queen Elizabeth Way, abbreviation, QEW]
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A.
Can-Am League
The Can-Am League was a minor professional ice hockey league that operated in the northeastern United States and Canada during the early 20th century.
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B.
York Province
York Province is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Church of England covering the northern part of England under the oversight of the Archbishop of York.
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C.
Canadian Tire Centre
Canadian Tire Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Ottawa best known as the home venue of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and a major site for concerts and large events.
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D.
Réseau des sports
Réseau des sports is a Canadian French-language specialty television channel focused on broadcasting sports events and related programming.
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E.
High Level Bridge (Edmonton)
The High Level Bridge in Edmonton is a historic multi-use steel truss bridge that carries road traffic, pedestrians, and a heritage streetcar high above the North Saskatchewan River, linking the city’s downtown with the south side.
- 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: QEW Target entity description: QEW is a major controlled-access highway in Ontario, Canada, connecting Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and serving as a key route to the U.S. border.
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A.
Can-Am League
The Can-Am League was a minor professional ice hockey league that operated in the northeastern United States and Canada during the early 20th century.
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B.
York Province
York Province is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Church of England covering the northern part of England under the oversight of the Archbishop of York.
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C.
Canadian Tire Centre
Canadian Tire Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Ottawa best known as the home venue of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and a major site for concerts and large events.
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D.
Réseau des sports
Réseau des sports is a Canadian French-language specialty television channel focused on broadcasting sports events and related programming.
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E.
High Level Bridge (Edmonton)
The High Level Bridge in Edmonton is a historic multi-use steel truss bridge that carries road traffic, pedestrians, and a heritage streetcar high above the North Saskatchewan River, linking the city’s downtown with the south side.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
controlled-access highway
ⓘ
provincial highway ⓘ |
| connects |
Niagara Peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
Niagara Region
Toronto ⓘ U.S. border at Niagara region ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| followsShoreOf | Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviationFor | Queen Elizabeth Way ⓘ |
| hasBridge |
Burlington Bay Skyway
ⓘ
linked to:
Burlington Skyway
|
| hasFeature |
interchanges instead of at-grade intersections
ⓘ
median separation between directions of travel ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Gardiner Expressway
ⓘ
Highway 403 ⓘ Highway 405 ⓘ Highway 406 ⓘ Highway 427 ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | multi-lane divided highway ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | 100 km/h (typical posted limit on most sections) ⓘ |
| hasTrafficRole |
freight route to U.S. border crossings in Niagara
ⓘ
primary link between Toronto and Niagara wine region ⓘ |
| isKeyRouteTo |
Buffalo, New York (via border crossings)
ⓘ
United States border ⓘ
linked to:
Canada–United States border
|
| isMajorCorridorFor |
commuter traffic between Toronto and Hamilton
ⓘ
tourist traffic to Niagara Falls ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor | trade corridor between Greater Toronto Area and United States ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ontario ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
ⓘ
linked to:
Ministry of Transportation (Ontario)
|
| namedAfter | Queen Elizabeth ⓘ |
| openedInPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| parallelTo |
Lake Ontario shoreline between Toronto and Niagara
ⓘ
linked to:
north shore of Lake Ontario
|
| partOf | Ontario provincial highway network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Burlington
ⓘ
Hamilton ⓘ Mississauga ⓘ Niagara Falls, Ontario ⓘ Oakville ⓘ
linked to:
Oakville, Ontario
St. Catharines ⓘ Toronto ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
ⓘ
Niagara Region ⓘ |
| roadNumberingSystem | usesNameInsteadOfNumber ⓘ |
| roadType | controlled-access freeway ⓘ |
| terminusNear |
Downtown Toronto
ⓘ
Fort Erie, Ontario ⓘ |
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: QEW Description of subject: QEW is a major controlled-access highway in Ontario, Canada, connecting Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and serving as a key route to the U.S. border.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.