A9 motorway (Switzerland)
E153507
The A9 motorway in Switzerland is a major Alpine highway running along the northern shore of Lake Geneva and through the canton of Valais, providing key east–west transit and access to important mountain regions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A9 motorway (Switzerland) canonical | 2 |
| A9 motorway (Lausanne region) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1261631 — 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: A9 motorway (Switzerland) Context triple: [A1 motorway (Switzerland), hasJunctionWith, A9 motorway (Switzerland)]
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A.
A6 motorway (Switzerland)
The A6 motorway in Switzerland is a major highway in the Swiss national road network that connects the capital city of Bern with the Bernese Oberland region and links to other key motorways.
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B.
A5 motorway (Switzerland)
The A5 motorway in Switzerland is a major highway that runs along the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, connecting key towns in the Jura region and linking with other national motorways.
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C.
A7 motorway (Switzerland)
The A7 motorway in Switzerland is a major highway in the northeast of the country that connects Winterthur to the German border near Kreuzlingen, facilitating cross-border traffic toward Konstanz.
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D.
A4 motorway (Switzerland)
The A4 motorway in Switzerland is a key north–south highway connecting the Zurich region with central Switzerland and the German border, serving as an important link in the national and trans-European road network.
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E.
A1 motorway (Switzerland)
The A1 motorway in Switzerland is a major east–west highway that connects the French border near Geneva with key Swiss cities including Lausanne, Bern, Zurich, and St. Gallen.
- 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: A9 motorway (Switzerland) Target entity description: The A9 motorway in Switzerland is a major Alpine highway running along the northern shore of Lake Geneva and through the canton of Valais, providing key east–west transit and access to important mountain regions.
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A.
A6 motorway (Switzerland)
The A6 motorway in Switzerland is a major highway in the Swiss national road network that connects the capital city of Bern with the Bernese Oberland region and links to other key motorways.
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B.
A5 motorway (Switzerland)
The A5 motorway in Switzerland is a major highway that runs along the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, connecting key towns in the Jura region and linking with other national motorways.
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C.
A7 motorway (Switzerland)
The A7 motorway in Switzerland is a major highway in the northeast of the country that connects Winterthur to the German border near Kreuzlingen, facilitating cross-border traffic toward Konstanz.
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D.
A4 motorway (Switzerland)
The A4 motorway in Switzerland is a key north–south highway connecting the Zurich region with central Switzerland and the German border, serving as an important link in the national and trans-European road network.
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E.
A1 motorway (Switzerland)
The A1 motorway in Switzerland is a major east–west highway that connects the French border near Geneva with key Swiss cities including Lausanne, Bern, Zurich, and St. Gallen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motorway
ⓘ
road in Switzerland ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Lake Geneva region
ⓘ
Valais ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| followsValley |
Rhône River valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhône valley
|
| function |
access to important mountain regions
ⓘ
key east–west transit route ⓘ major Alpine highway ⓘ |
| hasBridges | yes ⓘ |
| hasLanguageVariantName |
Autobahn A9 (German)
ⓘ
linked to:
Autobahn A9
Autoroute A9 (French) ⓘ |
| hasTunnels | yes ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor | transalpine transport corridor ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alps
ⓘ
canton of Valais ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Valais
canton of Vaud ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Vaud
|
| maintainedBy | Swiss Confederation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Swiss national motorway network
ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss motorway network
|
| passesThrough |
Montreux
ⓘ
Rhône valley in Valais ⓘ Vevey region ⓘ
linked to:
Broye–Léman region
|
| regionServed | Alpine tourist destinations in Valais ⓘ |
| roadNumber | A9 ⓘ |
| runsAlong | northern shore of Lake Geneva ⓘ |
| terrain | mountainous ⓘ |
| 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: A9 motorway (Switzerland) Description of subject: The A9 motorway in Switzerland is a major Alpine highway running along the northern shore of Lake Geneva and through the canton of Valais, providing key east–west transit and access to important mountain regions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.