ASTRA
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ASTRA is the abbreviated name of Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for the country’s road infrastructure and traffic management.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ASTRA canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5498836 — 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: ASTRA Context triple: [Swiss Federal Roads Office, shortName, ASTRA]
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A.
Astra
Astra is a prominent Asian work, likely a creative or literary piece, recognized for its cultural and artistic significance within Asia.
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B.
Astra Planeta
Astra Planeta are the personified star and planet deities of ancient Greek mythology, often depicted as radiant celestial gods associated with the night sky.
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C.
ASTRO
ASTRO is the leading professional organization in the United States for radiation oncologists and other specialists involved in radiation therapy for cancer and other diseases.
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D.
Aster 30
Aster 30 is a long-range, ship- and land-based surface-to-air missile designed for advanced air and missile defense against aircraft, drones, and ballistic threats.
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E.
ASTER
ASTER is a high-resolution imaging spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Terra satellite used to map and monitor Earth’s surface features and environmental changes.
- 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: ASTRA Target entity description: ASTRA is the abbreviated name of Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for the country’s road infrastructure and traffic management.
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A.
Astra
Astra is a prominent Asian work, likely a creative or literary piece, recognized for its cultural and artistic significance within Asia.
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B.
Astra Planeta
Astra Planeta are the personified star and planet deities of ancient Greek mythology, often depicted as radiant celestial gods associated with the night sky.
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C.
ASTRO
ASTRO is the leading professional organization in the United States for radiation oncologists and other specialists involved in radiation therapy for cancer and other diseases.
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D.
Aster 30
Aster 30 is a long-range, ship- and land-based surface-to-air missile designed for advanced air and missile defense against aircraft, drones, and ballistic threats.
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E.
ASTER
ASTER is a high-resolution imaging spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Terra satellite used to map and monitor Earth’s surface features and environmental changes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss federal agency
ⓘ
road authority ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ASTRA ⓘ |
| abbreviationFrench | OFROU ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employerType | public administration ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Swiss Federal Council ⓘ |
| fullNameFrench |
Office fédéral des routes
ⓘ
linked to:
Federal Roads Office
|
| fullNameGerman |
Bundesamt für Strassen
ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss Federal Roads Office
|
| fullNameItalian | Ufficio federale delle strade ⓘ |
| fullNameRomansh |
Uffizi federal da vias
ⓘ
linked to:
Ufficio federale delle strade
|
| headquartersLocation | Ittigen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Swiss Confederation ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Romansh ⓘ
linked to:
Romansh language
|
| legalStatus | federal office of Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| mandate | ensure safe and efficient road traffic on the national road network ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications ⓘ |
| responsibility |
collection of traffic data
ⓘ
construction of national roads ⓘ coordination with cantonal road authorities ⓘ implementation of Swiss road traffic legislation ⓘ infrastructure planning for cross-border road traffic ⓘ maintenance of national roads ⓘ operation of national roads ⓘ planning of national roads ⓘ road safety on national roads ⓘ toll systems on national roads ⓘ traffic management on national roads ⓘ |
| sector |
road infrastructure
ⓘ
traffic management ⓘ transport ⓘ |
| supervises | Swiss national motorway network ⓘ |
| 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: ASTRA Description of subject: ASTRA is the abbreviated name of Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office, the national authority responsible for the country’s road infrastructure and traffic management.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.