A4 motorway (Germany)
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The A4 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn connecting the Dutch border near Aachen through cities like Cologne and Dresden to the Polish border, serving as an important trans-European transport corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A4 motorway (Germany) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9464107 — 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: A4 motorway (Germany) Context triple: [A1 motorway (Germany), hasJunctionWith, A4 motorway (Germany)]
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A1 motorway (Germany)
The A1 motorway in Germany is a major north–south autobahn connecting the Baltic Sea port of Heiligenhafen with the Saarland region near the French border, serving key cities such as Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, and Cologne.
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B.
A3 motorway (Germany)
The A3 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn that runs from the Dutch border near Arnhem through cities like Oberhausen, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Nuremberg to the Austrian border near Passau.
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C.
A5 motorway (Germany)
The A5 motorway in Germany is a major north–south autobahn running from the Hattenbach triangle in central Germany to the Swiss border near Basel, serving as a key route through the Rhine-Main and Upper Rhine regions.
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D.
A8 motorway (Germany)
The A8 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn connecting the Luxembourg and French borders through cities like Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, and Munich to the Austrian border near Salzburg.
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E.
Autobahn A46
Autobahn A46 is a German federal motorway in North Rhine-Westphalia that connects several major cities in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.
- 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: A4 motorway (Germany) Target entity description: The A4 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn connecting the Dutch border near Aachen through cities like Cologne and Dresden to the Polish border, serving as an important trans-European transport corridor.
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A.
A1 motorway (Germany)
The A1 motorway in Germany is a major north–south autobahn connecting the Baltic Sea port of Heiligenhafen with the Saarland region near the French border, serving key cities such as Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, and Cologne.
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B.
A3 motorway (Germany)
The A3 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn that runs from the Dutch border near Arnhem through cities like Oberhausen, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Nuremberg to the Austrian border near Passau.
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C.
A5 motorway (Germany)
The A5 motorway in Germany is a major north–south autobahn running from the Hattenbach triangle in central Germany to the Swiss border near Basel, serving as a key route through the Rhine-Main and Upper Rhine regions.
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D.
A8 motorway (Germany)
The A8 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn connecting the Luxembourg and French borders through cities like Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, and Munich to the Austrian border near Salzburg.
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E.
Autobahn A46
Autobahn A46 is a German federal motorway in North Rhine-Westphalia that connects several major cities in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobahn
ⓘ
motorway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Dutch border
ⓘ
Polish border ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses |
Elbe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rhine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| easternTerminusAtBorderWith | Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A1 motorway (Germany)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A13 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A17 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A3 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A5 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A7 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A9 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | dual carriageway on most sections ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | variable speed limits by section ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
international road transport
ⓘ
long-distance freight traffic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
central Germany
ⓘ
eastern Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ western Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedInPart | 1930s ⓘ |
| partOf |
European route E314
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
European route E40 NERFINISHED ⓘ German autobahn network ⓘ Trans-European transport corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Aachen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eisenach NERFINISHED ⓘ Erfurt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Chemnitz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ Gera NERFINISHED ⓘ Hesse NERFINISHED ⓘ Jena NERFINISHED ⓘ North Rhine-Westphalia NERFINISHED ⓘ Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ Thuringia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasExtendedAfter | German reunification ⓘ |
| westernTerminusAtBorderWith | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westernTerminusNear | Aachen 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: A4 motorway (Germany) Description of subject: The A4 motorway in Germany is a major east–west autobahn connecting the Dutch border near Aachen through cities like Cologne and Dresden to the Polish border, serving as an important trans-European transport corridor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.