Tōmei Expressway
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The Tōmei Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, serving as a key artery for traffic and freight along the Pacific coast of Honshu.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tōmei Expressway canonical | 17 |
| Tomei Expressway | 4 |
| Tōmei Expressway (nearby access) | 2 |
| Shin-Tōmei Expressway | 1 |
| Tōmei Expressway (nearby interchanges) | 1 |
| Tōmei Expressway (nearby) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2284928 — 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: Tōmei Expressway Context triple: [Meishin Expressway, hasJunctionWith, Tōmei Expressway]
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A.
Nishi-Meihan Expressway
Nishi-Meihan Expressway is a major expressway in Japan’s Kansai region that connects parts of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, serving as an important route for regional traffic and logistics.
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B.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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C.
Higashi-Kanto Expressway
The Higashi-Kanto Expressway is a major Japanese expressway in the Kanto region that connects the Tokyo area with Chiba Prefecture and serves as a key route to Narita International Airport.
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D.
Kinki Expressway
The Kinki Expressway is a major Japanese expressway serving the Kansai (Kinki) region, facilitating high-speed road travel and regional connectivity around cities such as Osaka and Kyoto.
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E.
Hanshin Expressway
The Hanshin Expressway is a major urban expressway network serving the Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto region of Japan, known for its elevated routes and heavy commuter and freight traffic.
- 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: Tōmei Expressway Target entity description: The Tōmei Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, serving as a key artery for traffic and freight along the Pacific coast of Honshu.
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A.
Nishi-Meihan Expressway
Nishi-Meihan Expressway is a major expressway in Japan’s Kansai region that connects parts of Osaka and Nara Prefectures, serving as an important route for regional traffic and logistics.
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B.
Meishin Expressway
The Meishin Expressway is a major Japanese toll highway linking the Nagoya and Kobe regions, forming a key part of the transportation network in the Kansai area.
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C.
Higashi-Kanto Expressway
The Higashi-Kanto Expressway is a major Japanese expressway in the Kanto region that connects the Tokyo area with Chiba Prefecture and serves as a key route to Narita International Airport.
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D.
Kinki Expressway
The Kinki Expressway is a major Japanese expressway serving the Kansai (Kinki) region, facilitating high-speed road travel and regional connectivity around cities such as Osaka and Kyoto.
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E.
Hanshin Expressway
The Hanshin Expressway is a major urban expressway network serving the Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto region of Japan, known for its elevated routes and heavy commuter and freight traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Tōmei Expressway Description of subject: The Tōmei Expressway is a major Japanese expressway connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, serving as a key artery for traffic and freight along the Pacific coast of Honshu.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
linked to: Tōmei Expressway
subject linked to:
Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
linked to: Tōmei Expressway
linked to: Tōmei Expressway
subject linked to:
Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
subject linked to:
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
linked to: Tōmei Expressway
linked to: Tōmei Expressway
linked to: Tōmei Expressway
subject linked to:
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
linked to: Tōmei Expressway