USTRA
E531332
USTRA is the abbreviated name of the Swiss Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for Switzerland’s motorway and main road network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USTRA canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5498838 — 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: USTRA Context triple: [Swiss Federal Roads Office, shortName, USTRA]
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A.
UST
UST is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Treasury, the federal executive department responsible for managing government revenue, producing currency, and formulating economic and financial policy.
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B.
UST
UST is a historic and prestigious Catholic university in Manila, Philippines, known as one of Asia’s oldest existing universities.
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C.
USTR
USTR is the U.S. government agency responsible for developing and coordinating international trade policy and negotiating trade agreements on behalf of the United States.
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D.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is a U.S. Department of Defense organization responsible for safeguarding the United States and its allies from weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats.
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E.
USAR
USAR is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Army Reserve, the federal reserve force of the U.S. Army composed of part-time soldiers who support active-duty operations.
- 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: USTRA Target entity description: USTRA is the abbreviated name of the Swiss Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for Switzerland’s motorway and main road network.
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A.
UST
UST is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Treasury, the federal executive department responsible for managing government revenue, producing currency, and formulating economic and financial policy.
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B.
UST
UST is a historic and prestigious Catholic university in Manila, Philippines, known as one of Asia’s oldest existing universities.
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C.
USTR
USTR is the U.S. government agency responsible for developing and coordinating international trade policy and negotiating trade agreements on behalf of the United States.
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D.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is a U.S. Department of Defense organization responsible for safeguarding the United States and its allies from weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats.
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E.
USAR
USAR is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Army Reserve, the federal reserve force of the U.S. Army composed of part-time soldiers who support active-duty operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss federal agency
ⓘ
road authority ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ASTRA
ⓘ
FEDRO ⓘ USTRA ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employerType | public sector ⓘ |
| fullName |
Bundesamt für Strassen
ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss Federal Roads Office
Office fédéral des routes ⓘ
linked to:
Federal Roads Office
Ufficio federale delle strade ⓘ Uffizi federal da vias ⓘ
linked to:
Ufficio federale delle strade
|
| headquartersCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Canton of Bern
ⓘ
linked to:
canton of Bern
Ittigen ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Swiss Confederation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Romansh ⓘ
linked to:
Romansh language
|
| legalForm | federal office ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| mandate |
ensure availability of national road network
ⓘ
ensure efficiency of national road network ⓘ ensure safety of national road network ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications ⓘ |
| partOf |
Swiss federal administration
ⓘ
linked to:
federal office of the Swiss Confederation
|
| regulates |
signalling and equipment on national roads
ⓘ
standards for road infrastructure on national roads ⓘ |
| responsibility |
Swiss national main road network
ⓘ
Swiss national motorway network ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss motorway network
|
| sector |
infrastructure management
ⓘ
road transport ⓘ |
| supervises |
operation of Swiss motorways
ⓘ
safety measures on Swiss motorways ⓘ |
| task |
construction of national roads
ⓘ
maintenance of national roads ⓘ operation of national roads ⓘ planning of national roads ⓘ traffic management on national roads ⓘ traffic safety on national roads ⓘ |
| uses | Swiss federal budget ⓘ |
| website | https://www.astra.admin.ch ⓘ |
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: USTRA Description of subject: USTRA is the abbreviated name of the Swiss Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for Switzerland’s motorway and main road network.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.