Kosovo–North Macedonia border
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The Kosovo–North Macedonia border is an international land boundary in the Balkans that serves as a key transit corridor between the two countries, including major road and trade routes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kosovo–North Macedonia border canonical | 3 |
| Kosovo–North Macedonia border area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7908705 — 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: Kosovo–North Macedonia border Context triple: [European route E80, hasBorderCrossing, Kosovo–North Macedonia border]
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A.
Albania–North Macedonia border
The Albania–North Macedonia border is an international boundary in the Balkans that runs through rugged mountainous terrain, including the peak of Mount Korab, and separates the Republic of Albania from the Republic of North Macedonia.
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B.
North Macedonia–Bulgaria border
The North Macedonia–Bulgaria border is an international boundary in the Balkans that runs largely through mountainous terrain and separates the Republic of North Macedonia from Bulgaria.
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C.
Albania–Kosovo border
The Albania–Kosovo border is a mountainous international boundary in the western Balkans, much of which runs through the rugged Prokletije (Accursed) Mountains.
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D.
Serbia–Bulgaria border
The Serbia–Bulgaria border is an international boundary in Southeast Europe separating the Republic of Serbia from the Republic of Bulgaria, running across mountainous terrain including parts of the Balkan Mountains.
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E.
Montenegro–Albania border
The Montenegro–Albania border is an international boundary in the western Balkans that runs through rugged terrain, including high mountain ranges and remote rural areas, separating the Adriatic-facing state of Montenegro from its southeastern neighbor Albania.
- 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: Kosovo–North Macedonia border Target entity description: The Kosovo–North Macedonia border is an international land boundary in the Balkans that serves as a key transit corridor between the two countries, including major road and trade routes.
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A.
Albania–North Macedonia border
The Albania–North Macedonia border is an international boundary in the Balkans that runs through rugged mountainous terrain, including the peak of Mount Korab, and separates the Republic of Albania from the Republic of North Macedonia.
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B.
North Macedonia–Bulgaria border
The North Macedonia–Bulgaria border is an international boundary in the Balkans that runs largely through mountainous terrain and separates the Republic of North Macedonia from Bulgaria.
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C.
Albania–Kosovo border
The Albania–Kosovo border is a mountainous international boundary in the western Balkans, much of which runs through the rugged Prokletije (Accursed) Mountains.
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D.
Serbia–Bulgaria border
The Serbia–Bulgaria border is an international boundary in Southeast Europe separating the Republic of Serbia from the Republic of Bulgaria, running across mountainous terrain including parts of the Balkan Mountains.
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E.
Montenegro–Albania border
The Montenegro–Albania border is an international boundary in the western Balkans that runs through rugged terrain, including high mountain ranges and remote rural areas, separating the Adriatic-facing state of Montenegro from its southeastern neighbor Albania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international border
ⓘ
land border ⓘ |
| borderAgreementYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOnSide |
Republic of Kosovo
ⓘ
linked to:
Kosovo
Republic of North Macedonia ⓘ
linked to:
North Macedonia
|
| established | 2009 ⓘ |
| establishedAs | international border between Kosovo and North Macedonia ⓘ |
| followsHistoricalBoundary | Yugoslav republic and province boundary ⓘ |
| goesThrough |
Ferizaj region (Kosovo)
ⓘ
linked to:
District of Ferizaj
Polog region (North Macedonia) ⓘ
linked to:
Tetovo region
Šar Mountains region ⓘ
linked to:
Šar Mountains
|
| hasBorderAgreement | border demarcation agreement between Kosovo and North Macedonia ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossing |
Bellanoc–Stançiq border crossing
ⓘ
Blace–Hani i Elezit border crossing ⓘ Jazhince–Glloboçicë border crossing ⓘ |
| hasCheckpoint |
Blace border checkpoint
ⓘ
Hani i Elezit border checkpoint ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
customs control
ⓘ
goods inspection ⓘ immigration control ⓘ |
| hasMajorRoadCorridor |
European route E65
ⓘ
European route E75 (via connecting roads) ⓘ
linked to:
European route E75
Route connecting Pristina and Skopje ⓘ |
| hasRailwayCrossing | Railway line between Pristina and Skopje ⓘ |
| isPartOf | corridor between Central Europe and Greece ⓘ |
| isTransitCorridorFor |
bus traffic
ⓘ
private vehicles ⓘ road freight ⓘ |
| legalStatus |
border of partially recognized state of Kosovo
ⓘ
internationally recognized border of North Macedonia ⓘ |
| length | approximately 159 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Balkans ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Pristina
ⓘ
Skopje ⓘ |
| nearTown |
Blace
ⓘ
Hani i Elezit ⓘ |
| partOf |
Western Balkans transport network
ⓘ
linked to:
Pan-European transport corridors
|
| predecessor | internal boundary between Socialist Republic of Macedonia and Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo ⓘ |
| predecessorState |
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
ⓘ
linked to:
Yugoslavia
|
| regionType | mountainous border region ⓘ |
| securityManagedBy |
Border Police of North Macedonia
ⓘ
linked to:
border police of North Macedonia
Kosovo Police ⓘ |
| separates |
Kosovo
ⓘ
North Macedonia ⓘ |
| usedFor |
passenger transit
ⓘ
regional transport ⓘ trade transit ⓘ |
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: Kosovo–North Macedonia border Description of subject: The Kosovo–North Macedonia border is an international land boundary in the Balkans that serves as a key transit corridor between the two countries, including major road and trade routes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.