First Coen Tunnel

E131265

highway tunnel road tunnel transport infrastructure

The First Coen Tunnel is the original road tunnel under the North Sea Canal in Amsterdam, forming a key part of the city's ring road and an important traffic artery in the Netherlands.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Coen Tunnel	6
Coen Tunnel complex	1
First Coen Tunnel canonical	1
Second Coen Tunnel	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1142794 — 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: First Coen Tunnel
Context triple: [Coen Tunnel, hasComponent, First Coen Tunnel]

A. Clyde Tunnel
The Clyde Tunnel is a road tunnel in Glasgow, Scotland, carrying vehicular traffic beneath the River Clyde to connect the city’s north and south banks.
B. Malinta Tunnel
Malinta Tunnel is a historic underground complex on Corregidor Island in the Philippines that served as a bomb-proof headquarters and hospital for American and Filipino forces during World War II.
C. Robertson Tunnel
Robertson Tunnel is a major light rail tunnel in Portland, Oregon, carrying MAX trains through the West Hills between downtown and the city’s western suburbs.
D. Eisenhower–Johnson Memorial Tunnel
The Eisenhower–Johnson Memorial Tunnel is a high-altitude vehicular tunnel through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, carrying Interstate 70 beneath the Continental Divide.
E. Shandaken Tunnel
The Shandaken Tunnel is an aqueduct in New York State that diverts water from the Schoharie Reservoir to the Esopus Creek as part of the New York City water supply system.
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: First Coen Tunnel
Target entity description: The First Coen Tunnel is the original road tunnel under the North Sea Canal in Amsterdam, forming a key part of the city's ring road and an important traffic artery in the Netherlands.

A. Clyde Tunnel
The Clyde Tunnel is a road tunnel in Glasgow, Scotland, carrying vehicular traffic beneath the River Clyde to connect the city’s north and south banks.
B. Malinta Tunnel
Malinta Tunnel is a historic underground complex on Corregidor Island in the Philippines that served as a bomb-proof headquarters and hospital for American and Filipino forces during World War II.
C. Robertson Tunnel
Robertson Tunnel is a major light rail tunnel in Portland, Oregon, carrying MAX trains through the West Hills between downtown and the city’s western suburbs.
D. Eisenhower–Johnson Memorial Tunnel
The Eisenhower–Johnson Memorial Tunnel is a high-altitude vehicular tunnel through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, carrying Interstate 70 beneath the Continental Divide.
E. Shandaken Tunnel
The Shandaken Tunnel is an aqueduct in New York State that diverts water from the Schoharie Reservoir to the Esopus Creek as part of the New York City water supply system.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	highway tunnel ⓘ road tunnel ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ
belongsToCorridor	A8–A10–A5 corridor around Amsterdam ⓘ
cityServed	Amsterdam ⓘ
connects	eastern bank of North Sea Canal ⓘ western bank of North Sea Canal ⓘ
connectsArea	Amsterdam-Noord ⓘ linked to: Amsterdam North Amsterdam-West ⓘ
constructionStartDate	1961 ⓘ
country	Netherlands ⓘ
crosses	North Sea Canal ⓘ
designedFor	high traffic volumes ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Coentunnel (original tube) ⓘ
hasDirection	bidirectional ⓘ
hasFunction	crossing under waterway ⓘ
hasLanes	4 ⓘ
hasRole	bypass for Amsterdam city centre traffic ⓘ
hasStructure	twin-tube tunnel ⓘ
hasUpgrade	renovation after opening of Second Coen Tunnel ⓘ
isKeyPartOf	Amsterdam road network ⓘ Dutch motorway network ⓘ
isOlderThan	Second Coen Tunnel ⓘ
isOriginalTunnelOf	Coen Tunnel complex ⓘ linked to: First Coen Tunnel
isSubjectOf	renovation projects ⓘ traffic management measures in Amsterdam ⓘ
laneConfiguration	2 lanes per tube ⓘ
locatedIn	Amsterdam ⓘ North Holland ⓘ
locatedOn	western section of A10 ring road ⓘ
locatedUnder	North Sea Canal ⓘ
maintainedBy	Rijkswaterstaat ⓘ
namedAfter	Piet Pieterszoon Coen ⓘ linked to: Jan Pieterszoon Coen
openedBy	Queen Juliana of the Netherlands ⓘ linked to: Juliana of the Netherlands
openingDate	1966-06-21 ⓘ
owner	Rijkswaterstaat ⓘ
parallelStructure	Second Coen Tunnel ⓘ
partOf	A10 motorway ⓘ Amsterdam ring road ⓘ linked to: A10 ring road of Amsterdam
regionServed	Randstad ⓘ linked to: Randstad metropolitan region
roadType	motorway ⓘ
significance	important traffic artery in the Netherlands ⓘ
status	in use ⓘ
toll	no ⓘ
trafficType	motor vehicles ⓘ