A472
E900092
A472 is a primary road in South Wales that connects the town of Pontypool with the A4042 and A467 routes, serving as an important east–west link in the region’s road network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A472 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11013575 — 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: A472 Context triple: [A472 road, hasRoadNumber, A472]
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A.
A470
A470 is a major trunk road in Wales that runs from Cardiff in the south to Llandudno in the north, linking many of the country’s key towns and regions.
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B.
A428
The A428 is a major road in eastern England that links Cambridge with Bedford and other nearby towns, serving as an important regional transport route.
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C.
A417
A417 is a major road in England that links key towns and routes in Gloucestershire and the surrounding region.
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D.
A46
A46 is a major trunk road in England that runs from Bath in the southwest to Cleethorpes on the east coast, connecting several key cities and regions.
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E.
A4120
A4120 is a numbered A-road in the United Kingdom that serves as a regional connector route.
- 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: A472 Target entity description: A472 is a primary road in South Wales that connects the town of Pontypool with the A4042 and A467 routes, serving as an important east–west link in the region’s road network.
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A.
A470
A470 is a major trunk road in Wales that runs from Cardiff in the south to Llandudno in the north, linking many of the country’s key towns and regions.
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B.
A428
The A428 is a major road in eastern England that links Cambridge with Bedford and other nearby towns, serving as an important regional transport route.
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C.
A417
A417 is a major road in England that links key towns and routes in Gloucestershire and the surrounding region.
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D.
A46
A46 is a major trunk road in England that runs from Bath in the southwest to Cleethorpes on the east coast, connecting several key cities and regions.
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E.
A4120
A4120 is a numbered A-road in the United Kingdom that serves as a regional connector route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
primary road
ⓘ
road ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
A4042
ⓘ
A467 ⓘ Pontypool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Wales ⓘ |
| function | regional connector ⓘ |
| importance | important east–west link in South Wales ⓘ |
| locatedIn | South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| networkRole | links A4042 and A467 routes ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| partOf |
United Kingdom road network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Welsh road network ⓘ |
| roadType | A road ⓘ |
| serves | Pontypool area ⓘ |
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: A472 Description of subject: A472 is a primary road in South Wales that connects the town of Pontypool with the A4042 and A467 routes, serving as an important east–west link in the region’s road network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.