Federal Roads Office
E408533
The Federal Roads Office is the Swiss federal authority responsible for planning, regulating, and overseeing the country’s national road and motorway infrastructure.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Federal Roads Office (Switzerland) | 4 |
| Office fédéral des routes | 4 |
| Federal Roads Office canonical | 3 |
| Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) | 2 |
| Federal Roads Office of Switzerland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4046734 — 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: Federal Roads Office Context triple: [Swiss motorway network, maintainedBy, Federal Roads Office]
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A.
Federal Road Safety Corps
The Federal Road Safety Corps is Nigeria’s government agency responsible for road safety management, traffic regulation, and accident prevention across the country.
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B.
Florida Department of Transportation
The Florida Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Florida’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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C.
Roads and Transport Authority
The Roads and Transport Authority is Dubai’s government agency responsible for planning, operating, and regulating the emirate’s public transport systems and road infrastructure.
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D.
General Directorate of Traffic
The General Directorate of Traffic is the national authority within Egypt’s police structure responsible for regulating road traffic, enforcing driving laws, and overseeing vehicle and driver licensing across the country.
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E.
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Louisiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related public works.
- 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: Federal Roads Office Target entity description: The Federal Roads Office is the Swiss federal authority responsible for planning, regulating, and overseeing the country’s national road and motorway infrastructure.
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A.
Federal Road Safety Corps
The Federal Road Safety Corps is Nigeria’s government agency responsible for road safety management, traffic regulation, and accident prevention across the country.
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B.
Florida Department of Transportation
The Florida Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Florida’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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C.
Roads and Transport Authority
The Roads and Transport Authority is Dubai’s government agency responsible for planning, operating, and regulating the emirate’s public transport systems and road infrastructure.
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D.
General Directorate of Traffic
The General Directorate of Traffic is the national authority within Egypt’s police structure responsible for regulating road traffic, enforcing driving laws, and overseeing vehicle and driver licensing across the country.
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E.
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Louisiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related public works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss federal office
ⓘ
government agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ASTRA
ⓘ
FEDRO ⓘ OFROU ⓘ USTRA ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
Federal Office for the Environment
ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
Federal Office of Transport ⓘ cantonal road authorities ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employerType | public sector ⓘ |
| hasScope | national road network of Switzerland ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Canton of Bern
ⓘ
linked to:
canton of Bern
Ittigen ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Swiss Confederation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Romansh ⓘ |
| officialName |
Bundesamt für Strassen
ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss Federal Roads Office
Federal Roads Office ⓘ Office fédéral des routes ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss Federal Roads Office
Ufficio federale delle strade ⓘ Uffizi federal da vias ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications ⓘ |
| partOf |
Swiss federal administration
ⓘ
linked to:
federal office of the Swiss Confederation
|
| responsibleFor |
Swiss motorways
ⓘ
Swiss national roads ⓘ coordination with cantons on national roads ⓘ environmental aspects of national road projects ⓘ financing of national road infrastructure ⓘ implementation of federal road policy ⓘ maintenance of national roads network ⓘ national road infrastructure oversight ⓘ national road infrastructure planning ⓘ national road infrastructure regulation ⓘ national road statistics and data ⓘ operation of national roads network ⓘ road signage standards on national roads ⓘ road tunnel safety on national network ⓘ safety on national roads ⓘ technical standards for national road construction ⓘ traffic management on national roads ⓘ |
| sector |
infrastructure management
ⓘ
road transport ⓘ transport ⓘ |
| website | https://www.astra.admin.ch ⓘ |
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: Federal Roads Office Description of subject: The Federal Roads Office is the Swiss federal authority responsible for planning, regulating, and overseeing the country’s national road and motorway infrastructure.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
A1
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
linked to: Federal Roads Office
subject linked to:
A1 motorway (nearby)
linked to: Federal Roads Office