A78 road
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The A78 road is a major route in western Scotland that runs along the Ayrshire coast, connecting towns such as Irvine, Ardrossan, and Largs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A78 road canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2638369 — 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: A78 road Context triple: [A8 road, hasJunctionWith, A78 road]
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A.
A77 road
The A77 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that runs from Glasgow to the port town of Stranraer, serving as a key link between central Scotland and ferry services to Northern Ireland.
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B.
A74 road
The A74 road was a major trunk route in the United Kingdom connecting England and Scotland, much of which has since been upgraded and replaced by the M74 motorway.
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C.
A75 road
The A75 road is a major trunk route in southwest Scotland that connects the ferry port of Cairnryan and the town of Stranraer with the A74(M) motorway and the rest of the UK road network.
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D.
A79 road
The A79 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that links the coastal town of Ayr with nearby communities and transport networks.
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E.
A71 road
The A71 road is a major east–west route in Scotland that connects Edinburgh to Ayr, passing through areas including West Lothian.
- 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: A78 road Target entity description: The A78 road is a major route in western Scotland that runs along the Ayrshire coast, connecting towns such as Irvine, Ardrossan, and Largs.
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A.
A77 road
The A77 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that runs from Glasgow to the port town of Stranraer, serving as a key link between central Scotland and ferry services to Northern Ireland.
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B.
A74 road
The A74 road was a major trunk route in the United Kingdom connecting England and Scotland, much of which has since been upgraded and replaced by the M74 motorway.
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C.
A75 road
The A75 road is a major trunk route in southwest Scotland that connects the ferry port of Cairnryan and the town of Stranraer with the A74(M) motorway and the rest of the UK road network.
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D.
A79 road
The A79 road is a major route in southwest Scotland that links the coastal town of Ayr with nearby communities and transport networks.
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E.
A71 road
The A71 road is a major east–west route in Scotland that connects Edinburgh to Ayr, passing through areas including West Lothian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
A road in Great Britain
ⓘ
road ⓘ |
| connects |
Ardrossan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ardrossan Harbour area NERFINISHED ⓘ Fairlie NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenock NERFINISHED ⓘ Inverkip NERFINISHED ⓘ Irvine NERFINISHED ⓘ Largs NERFINISHED ⓘ Saltcoats NERFINISHED ⓘ Seamill NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevenston NERFINISHED ⓘ Wemyss Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ West Kilbride NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| followsCoastOf | Firth of Clyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRouteNumber | A78 ⓘ |
| junctionWith |
A71 road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A737 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A77 road NERFINISHED ⓘ A8 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ayrshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Great Britain mainland ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Transport Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | A road network in Great Britain ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Ardrossan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greenock NERFINISHED ⓘ Inverkip NERFINISHED ⓘ Irvine NERFINISHED ⓘ Largs NERFINISHED ⓘ Saltcoats NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevenston NERFINISHED ⓘ Wemyss Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ West Kilbride NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Inverclyde
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadClassification | primary route ⓘ |
| roadType |
dual carriageway
ⓘ
single carriageway ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Ayrshire coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Ardrossan ferry terminal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Largs ferry terminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminus |
Greenock area
ⓘ
Kilmarnock area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to ferry ports
ⓘ
local traffic ⓘ regional 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: A78 road Description of subject: The A78 road is a major route in western Scotland that runs along the Ayrshire coast, connecting towns such as Irvine, Ardrossan, and Largs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.