BR-040
E812304
BR-040 is a major Brazilian federal highway that connects key cities including Rio de Janeiro, Juiz de Fora, Belo Horizonte, and Brasília.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| BR-040 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9643856 — 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: BR-040 Context triple: [Juiz de Fora, traversedByHighway, BR-040]
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BR-304
BR-304 is a major federal highway in northeastern Brazil that connects key cities in Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará, including Mossoró, and serves as an important regional transport corridor.
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BR.20
The BR.20, also known as the "Cicogna," was an Italian twin‑engine medium bomber used primarily by the Regia Aeronautica during the late 1930s and World War II.
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C.
BR-277
BR-277 is a major Brazilian federal highway in Paraná state that links the inland region to the western border city of Foz do Iguaçu and the Iguaçu Falls area.
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D.
BR2
BR2 is a UK postcode district covering parts of Hayes and surrounding areas in the London Borough of Bromley in southeast England.
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E.
BB-40
BB-40 is the hull classification symbol for USS New Mexico, a U.S. Navy battleship that served primarily during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
- 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: BR-040 Target entity description: BR-040 is a major Brazilian federal highway that connects key cities including Rio de Janeiro, Juiz de Fora, Belo Horizonte, and Brasília.
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A.
BR-304
BR-304 is a major federal highway in northeastern Brazil that connects key cities in Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará, including Mossoró, and serves as an important regional transport corridor.
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B.
BR.20
The BR.20, also known as the "Cicogna," was an Italian twin‑engine medium bomber used primarily by the Regia Aeronautica during the late 1930s and World War II.
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C.
BR-277
BR-277 is a major Brazilian federal highway in Paraná state that links the inland region to the western border city of Foz do Iguaçu and the Iguaçu Falls area.
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D.
BR2
BR2 is a UK postcode district covering parts of Hayes and surrounding areas in the London Borough of Bromley in southeast England.
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E.
BB-40
BB-40 is the hull classification symbol for USS New Mexico, a U.S. Navy battleship that served primarily during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: BR-040 Description of subject: BR-040 is a major Brazilian federal highway that connects key cities including Rio de Janeiro, Juiz de Fora, Belo Horizonte, and Brasília.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.