E18 motorway
E690400
The E18 motorway is a major European route running across parts of the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, serving as a key east–west transport corridor in northern Europe.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| E18 motorway canonical | 6 |
| E18 highway | 1 |
| Helsinki–Lahti motorway | 1 |
| Helsinki–Tampere motorway corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5050928 — 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: E18 motorway Context triple: [Bergshamra, roadConnection, E18 motorway]
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A.
E20 motorway
The E20 motorway is a major European route that runs across several countries in Northern Europe, including Denmark, where it connects key cities and regions such as Copenhagen and the island of Amager.
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B.
M180 motorway
The M180 motorway is a major road in England linking the M18 near Doncaster to the Humber region, providing a key route to Scunthorpe, Grimsby, and Immingham.
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C.
E40 motorway
The E40 motorway is a major trans-European highway stretching from Calais in France across multiple countries to Kazakhstan, serving as a key east–west transport corridor.
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D.
A86 motorway
The A86 motorway is a major orbital highway forming part of the ring road system around Paris, France.
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E.
A15 motorway
The A15 motorway is a French autoroute serving as a key radial route northwest of Paris, linking the capital’s suburbs with the broader national road network.
- 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: E18 motorway Target entity description: The E18 motorway is a major European route running across parts of the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, serving as a key east–west transport corridor in northern Europe.
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A.
E20 motorway
The E20 motorway is a major European route that runs across several countries in Northern Europe, including Denmark, where it connects key cities and regions such as Copenhagen and the island of Amager.
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B.
M180 motorway
The M180 motorway is a major road in England linking the M18 near Doncaster to the Humber region, providing a key route to Scunthorpe, Grimsby, and Immingham.
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C.
E40 motorway
The E40 motorway is a major trans-European highway stretching from Calais in France across multiple countries to Kazakhstan, serving as a key east–west transport corridor.
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D.
A86 motorway
The A86 motorway is a major orbital highway forming part of the ring road system around Paris, France.
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E.
A15 motorway
The A15 motorway is a major Dutch highway in the western Netherlands that connects the port of Rotterdam with the eastern part of the country and important national transport corridors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
European route
ⓘ
international road ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Baltic Sea region
NERFINISHED
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Scandinavia NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countrySegment |
Finland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminusCountry | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endsAt | Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFerryConnection | Stranraer–Belfast (historical link in route) ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norwegian Public Roads Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian road authorities ⓘ Swedish Transport Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ national road authorities of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| partOf | International E-road network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughCity |
Belfast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Helsinki NERFINISHED ⓘ Kristiansand NERFINISHED ⓘ Oslo NERFINISHED ⓘ Stockholm NERFINISHED ⓘ Turku NERFINISHED ⓘ Vyborg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | E18 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | major east–west transport corridor in northern Europe ⓘ |
| runsThrough |
Finland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startsAt | Londonderry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Craigavon Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusCity | Londonderry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: E18 motorway Description of subject: The E18 motorway is a major European route running across parts of the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, serving as a key east–west transport corridor in northern Europe.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
E18 highway
this entity surface form:
Helsinki–Lahti motorway
subject surface form:
Riihimäki
this entity surface form:
Helsinki–Tampere motorway corridor