Bundesautobahn 8
E789109
Bundesautobahn 8 is a major German motorway running east–west across southern Germany, connecting cities such as Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munich, and Salzburg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bundesautobahn 8 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9225163 — 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: Bundesautobahn 8 Context triple: [Bernau am Chiemsee, hasTransportConnection, Bundesautobahn 8]
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A.
Bundesautobahn 6
Bundesautobahn 6 is a major east–west German motorway that runs across several federal states, linking key industrial and metropolitan regions in the country.
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B.
Bundesautobahn 65
Bundesautobahn 65 is a German federal motorway in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate that connects the Karlsruhe area with the region around Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
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C.
Bundesautobahn 81
Bundesautobahn 81 is a major German motorway running roughly north–south in southwestern Germany, connecting regions such as Würzburg, Heilbronn, Stuttgart, and the Lake Constance area.
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D.
Bundesautobahn 27
Bundesautobahn 27 is a major German motorway in northern Germany that connects the city of Bremen with Cuxhaven and the A7 near Walsrode, serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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E.
Bundesautobahn 96
Bundesautobahn 96 is a major German motorway running from Munich to the Lake Constance region, serving as an important east–west transport corridor in southern Germany.
- 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: Bundesautobahn 8 Target entity description: Bundesautobahn 8 is a major German motorway running east–west across southern Germany, connecting cities such as Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munich, and Salzburg.
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A.
Bundesautobahn 6
Bundesautobahn 6 is a major east–west German motorway that runs across several federal states, linking key industrial and metropolitan regions in the country.
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B.
Bundesautobahn 65
Bundesautobahn 65 is a German federal motorway in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate that connects the Karlsruhe area with the region around Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
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C.
Bundesautobahn 81
Bundesautobahn 81 is a major German motorway running roughly north–south in southwestern Germany, connecting regions such as Würzburg, Heilbronn, Stuttgart, and the Lake Constance area.
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D.
Bundesautobahn 27
Bundesautobahn 27 is a major German motorway in northern Germany that connects the city of Bremen with Cuxhaven and the A7 near Walsrode, serving as an important regional transport corridor.
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E.
Bundesautobahn 96
Bundesautobahn 96 is a major German motorway running from Munich to the Lake Constance region, serving as an important east–west transport corridor in southern Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Autobahn
ⓘ
road in Germany ⓘ |
| borderCrossingNear | Salzburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Augsburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Karlsruhe NERFINISHED ⓘ Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Salzburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuttgart NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsToCountry | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossesMountainRange |
Bavarian Alps foothills
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swabian Jura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminus | Austrian border near Salzburg ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | BAB 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Bundesautobahn 5
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bundesautobahn 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Bundesautobahn 81 NERFINISHED ⓘ Bundesautobahn 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ Bundesautobahn 93 NERFINISHED ⓘ Bundesautobahn 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | mostly dual carriageway ⓘ |
| hasServiceArea |
Rasthof Gruibingen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rasthof Irschenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit |
sections with variable speed limits
ⓘ
sections without general speed limit ⓘ |
| knownFor |
frequent congestion
ⓘ
heavy traffic ⓘ steep gradients ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southern Germany ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Bundesrepublik Deutschland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | west–east European transport corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | German Autobahn network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughState |
Baden-Württemberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| shortName |
A 8
ⓘ
A8 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance traffic
ⓘ
regional commuter traffic ⓘ |
| westernTerminus | Karlsruhe 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: Bundesautobahn 8 Description of subject: Bundesautobahn 8 is a major German motorway running east–west across southern Germany, connecting cities such as Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munich, and Salzburg.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.