Highway 40 (Israel)
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Highway 40 (Israel) is a major north–south arterial road that traverses central and southern Israel, including the Negev Desert and key historical and natural sites.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Highway 40 (Israel) canonical | 15 |
| Highway 40 in Israel | 1 |
| Israeli Highway 40 corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7184233 — 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: Highway 40 (Israel) Context triple: [Avdat National Park, locatedAlong, Highway 40 (Israel)]
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A.
Highway 44 (Israel)
Highway 44 (Israel) is a major regional road in central Israel that connects the Tel Aviv metropolitan area with cities such as Ramla and Lod.
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B.
Highway 4 (Israel)
Highway 4 (Israel) is a major north–south coastal highway that connects numerous cities and towns along Israel’s Mediterranean coast, including the city of Akko.
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C.
Highway 471 (Israel)
Highway 471 (Israel) is a major east–west urban freeway in central Israel that connects the Tel Aviv metropolitan area with key inland cities and highways.
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D.
Highway 90 (Israel)
Highway 90 (Israel) is a major north–south Israeli highway running the length of the country from the Lebanese border to Eilat, passing through the Jordan Valley and along the Dead Sea.
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E.
Highway 85 (Israel)
Highway 85 (Israel) is a major east–west roadway in northern Israel that connects the coastal plain with the Galilee and serves as a key route for regional traffic.
- 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: Highway 40 (Israel) Target entity description: Highway 40 (Israel) is a major north–south arterial road that traverses central and southern Israel, including the Negev Desert and key historical and natural sites.
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A.
Highway 44 (Israel)
Highway 44 (Israel) is a major regional road in central Israel that connects the Tel Aviv metropolitan area with cities such as Ramla and Lod.
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B.
Highway 4 (Israel)
Highway 4 (Israel) is a major north–south coastal highway that connects numerous cities and towns along Israel’s Mediterranean coast, including the city of Akko.
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C.
Highway 471 (Israel)
Highway 471 (Israel) is a major east–west urban freeway in central Israel that connects the Tel Aviv metropolitan area with key inland cities and highways.
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D.
Highway 90 (Israel)
Highway 90 (Israel) is a major north–south Israeli highway running the length of the country from the Lebanese border to Eilat, passing through the Jordan Valley and along the Dead Sea.
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E.
Highway 85 (Israel)
Highway 85 (Israel) is a major east–west roadway in northern Israel that connects the coastal plain with the Galilee and serves as a key route for regional traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway
ⓘ
road in Israel ⓘ |
| arterialType | major arterial road ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Coastal Plain
ⓘ
Negev ⓘ
linked to:
Negev desert
Shephelah ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| hasFunction | bypasses Tel Aviv metropolitan core ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Highway 1 (Israel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Highway 1 (Tel Aviv–Jerusalem) corridor
Highway 25 (Israel) ⓘ
linked to:
Highway 25, Israel
Highway 31 (Israel) ⓘ
linked to:
Highway 31, Israel
Highway 4 (Israel) ⓘ Highway 6 (Israel) ⓘ Highway 90 (Israel) ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration |
multi-lane sections
ⓘ
two-lane sections ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimitType | rural highway speed limits ⓘ |
| HebrewName | כביש 40 ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Negev Desert
ⓘ
linked to:
Negev desert
central Israel ⓘ southern Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Southern District, Israel
|
| maintainedBy | Israel National Roads Company ⓘ |
| partOf | Israeli national road network ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Beer Sheva North industrial area
ⓘ
Ben Gurion Airport ⓘ
linked to:
Ben-Gurion Airport
Makhtesh Ramon ⓘ Mitzpe Ramon ⓘ Nevatim Airbase ⓘ
linked to:
Hatzerim Airbase
Tel Nof Airbase ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Beersheba
ⓘ
Kiryat Gat ⓘ Lehavim area ⓘ Lod ⓘ Rahat ⓘ Ramla ⓘ Rehovot ⓘ |
| roadClass | interurban highway ⓘ |
| roadNumber | 40 ⓘ |
| roadSurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| traverses |
Negev Desert
ⓘ
linked to:
Negev desert
central Israel ⓘ
linked to:
מרכז הארץ
southern Israel ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to historical sites
ⓘ
access to military bases ⓘ access to natural sites ⓘ intercity traffic ⓘ |
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: Highway 40 (Israel) Description of subject: Highway 40 (Israel) is a major north–south arterial road that traverses central and southern Israel, including the Negev Desert and key historical and natural sites.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Highway 31, Israel
subject linked to:
Highway 31, Israel
linked to: Highway 40 (Israel)
linked to: Highway 40 (Israel)
subject linked to:
Highway 1