A38 motorway (Germany)
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The A38 motorway in Germany is an east–west autobahn in central Germany that serves as a key bypass around cities like Leipzig and Halle, linking several major north–south routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A38 motorway (Germany) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10306179 — 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: A38 motorway (Germany) Context triple: [A9 motorway (Germany), majorJunctionWith, A38 motorway (Germany)]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
A43 motorway (Germany)
The A43 motorway in Germany is a north–south autobahn in western Germany that connects the Ruhr area with the Münsterland region and links several major routes.
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D.
A4 motorway (Germany)
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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E.
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.
- 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: A38 motorway (Germany) Target entity description: The A38 motorway in Germany is an east–west autobahn in central Germany that serves as a key bypass around cities like Leipzig and Halle, linking several major north–south routes.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
A43 motorway (Germany)
The A43 motorway in Germany is a north–south autobahn in western Germany that connects the Ruhr area with the Münsterland region and links several major routes.
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D.
A4 motorway (Germany)
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobahn
ⓘ
motorway in Germany ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BAB 38 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bundesautobahn 38 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bypasses |
Halle (Saale)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Autobahns in Germany
ⓘ
Roads in Lower Saxony ⓘ Roads in Saxony ⓘ Roads in Saxony-Anhalt ⓘ Roads in Thuringia ⓘ |
| connects |
A14 motorway (Germany)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A7 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A71 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A73 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A9 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ several major north–south routes ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| function | bypass around Leipzig and Halle ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
A14 motorway (Germany)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A7 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A71 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A73 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ A9 motorway (Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Germany ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Halle (Saale)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
German autobahn network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
trans-European road network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Lower Saxony
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ Saxony-Anhalt NERFINISHED ⓘ Thuringia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A38 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadType | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| usedFor |
long-distance traffic
ⓘ
regional traffic ⓘ |
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: A38 motorway (Germany) Description of subject: The A38 motorway in Germany is an east–west autobahn in central Germany that serves as a key bypass around cities like Leipzig and Halle, linking several major north–south routes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.