A9 road
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The A9 road is a major Scottish trunk route running from Falkirk to Scrabster, forming the main north–south artery through the Highlands.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A9 road canonical | 50 |
| A9 road (part) | 1 |
| A9 trunk road | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T484278 — 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: A9 road Context triple: [M9 motorway, hasJunctionWith, A9 road]
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A.
A90 road
The A90 road is a major trunk route in eastern Scotland that runs between Edinburgh and Fraserburgh, linking key cities such as Dundee and Aberdeen.
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B.
A92 road
The A92 road is a major trunk route in eastern Scotland that connects several key towns and cities, including linking the area around Glenrothes to the wider regional road network.
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C.
A955 road
The A955 road is a coastal route in Fife, Scotland, linking several towns along the north shore of the Firth of Forth, including Methil.
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D.
A12 road
The A12 road is a major trunk route in eastern England that connects London with coastal towns in Essex and Suffolk before continuing toward Norfolk.
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E.
A14 road
The A14 road is a major trunk route in England that links the Midlands to the East Coast, serving as a key freight and commuter corridor including through Cambridgeshire.
- 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: A9 road Target entity description: The A9 road is a major Scottish trunk route running from Falkirk to Scrabster, forming the main north–south artery through the Highlands.
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A.
A90 road
The A90 road is a major trunk route in eastern Scotland that runs between Edinburgh and Fraserburgh, linking key cities such as Dundee and Aberdeen.
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B.
A92 road
The A92 road is a major trunk route in eastern Scotland that connects several key towns and cities, including linking the area around Glenrothes to the wider regional road network.
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C.
A955 road
The A955 road is a coastal route in Fife, Scotland, linking several towns along the north shore of the Firth of Forth, including Methil.
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D.
A12 road
The A12 road is a major trunk route in eastern England that connects London with coastal towns in Essex and Suffolk before continuing toward Norfolk.
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E.
A14 road
The A14 road is a major trunk route in England that links the Midlands to the East Coast, serving as a key freight and commuter corridor including through Cambridgeshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road
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transport infrastructure ⓘ trunk road ⓘ |
| connects |
Central Belt of Scotland with the Highlands
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Inverness with Perth ⓘ Inverness with Thurso and Scrabster ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| crosses |
Dornoch Firth Bridge
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Kessock Bridge ⓘ River Forth ⓘ |
| forms | main north–south artery through the Scottish Highlands ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A82 road
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A86 road ⓘ A95 road ⓘ A96 road ⓘ A99 road ⓘ M9 motorway ⓘ M90 motorway ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit |
60 mph on single carriageway sections
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70 mph on dual carriageway sections ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long-distance intercity traffic
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road safety concerns on single carriageway sections ⓘ scenic Highland landscapes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Transport Scotland ⓘ |
| partlyDualCarriageway | true ⓘ |
| partlySingleCarriageway | true ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish trunk road network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Aviemore
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Inverness ⓘ Perth ⓘ Pitlochry ⓘ
linked to:
Pitlochry, Scotland
Stirling ⓘ Thurso ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A9 ⓘ |
| routeType | A road ⓘ |
| runsFrom | Falkirk ⓘ |
| runsTo | Scrabster ⓘ |
| terminusFor | ferry services from Scrabster to Orkney ⓘ |
| traversesRegion |
Caithness
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Falkirk council area ⓘ Highland ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish Highlands
Perth and Kinross ⓘ Stirling council area ⓘ Sutherland ⓘ |
| upgradePlanned | dualling between Perth and Inverness ⓘ |
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: A9 road Description of subject: The A9 road is a major Scottish trunk route running from Falkirk to Scrabster, forming the main north–south artery through the Highlands.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
central Scotland
subject linked to:
Bridge of Allan, Scotland
linked to: A9 road
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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hasTransportCorridor
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A9 road (part)
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linked to: A9 road