Yunnan–Tibet Highway
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The Yunnan–Tibet Highway is a major high-altitude road in southwestern China that connects Yunnan Province with the Tibet Autonomous Region, traversing rugged mountainous terrain and serving as a key route for transport and tourism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yunnan–Tibet Highway canonical | 1 |
| Yunnan–Tibet tourist route | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7603126 — 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: Yunnan–Tibet Highway Context triple: [Eastern Tibet, hasTransportationRoute, Yunnan–Tibet Highway]
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A.
Sichuan–Tibet Highway
The Sichuan–Tibet Highway is a high-altitude, long-distance road linking China’s Sichuan Province with Tibet, renowned for its dramatic mountain scenery, challenging driving conditions, and strategic importance.
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B.
Beijing–Tibet Expressway
The Beijing–Tibet Expressway is a major Chinese highway that connects Beijing with Tibet, traversing several provinces and serving as a key route into the Tibetan Plateau.
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C.
Suhua Highway
Suhua Highway is a famously scenic yet historically treacherous coastal road in eastern Taiwan that winds along cliffs between Yilan and Hualien, offering dramatic Pacific Ocean views.
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D.
Tea Horse Road
The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
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E.
Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway is a high-altitude international road linking Pakistan and China through the Karakoram mountain range, renowned as one of the world’s highest paved routes and a key part of the ancient Silk Road corridor.
- 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: Yunnan–Tibet Highway Target entity description: The Yunnan–Tibet Highway is a major high-altitude road in southwestern China that connects Yunnan Province with the Tibet Autonomous Region, traversing rugged mountainous terrain and serving as a key route for transport and tourism.
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A.
Sichuan–Tibet Highway
The Sichuan–Tibet Highway is a high-altitude, long-distance road linking China’s Sichuan Province with Tibet, renowned for its dramatic mountain scenery, challenging driving conditions, and strategic importance.
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B.
Beijing–Tibet Expressway
The Beijing–Tibet Expressway is a major Chinese highway that connects Beijing with Tibet, traversing several provinces and serving as a key route into the Tibetan Plateau.
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C.
Suhua Highway
Suhua Highway is a famously scenic yet historically treacherous coastal road in eastern Taiwan that winds along cliffs between Yilan and Hualien, offering dramatic Pacific Ocean views.
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D.
Tea Horse Road
The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
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E.
Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway is a high-altitude international road linking Pakistan and China through the Karakoram mountain range, renowned as one of the world’s highest paved routes and a key part of the ancient Silk Road corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
highway
ⓘ
road ⓘ |
| climateConditions |
harsh weather
ⓘ
seasonal snowfall ⓘ |
| connects |
Tibet Autonomous Region
ⓘ
Yunnan Province ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| environment |
plateau region
ⓘ
river valleys ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
high elevation
ⓘ
mountain passes ⓘ scenic views ⓘ |
| hasTerrain | rugged ⓘ |
| importance |
key tourism route
ⓘ
major transport corridor ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southwestern China ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese road network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Tibet
ⓘ
Yunnan ⓘ
linked to:
Yunnan Province
|
| regionServed |
Tibet Autonomous Region
ⓘ
Yunnan Province ⓘ |
| riskFactor |
landslides
ⓘ
rockfalls ⓘ |
| roadType | long-distance highway ⓘ |
| traverses |
high-altitude regions
ⓘ
mountainous terrain ⓘ |
| usedFor |
tourism
ⓘ
transport ⓘ |
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: Yunnan–Tibet Highway Description of subject: The Yunnan–Tibet Highway is a major high-altitude road in southwestern China that connects Yunnan Province with the Tibet Autonomous Region, traversing rugged mountainous terrain and serving as a key route for transport and tourism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
eastern Tibet
linked to: Yunnan–Tibet Highway