M8 motorway
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The M8 motorway is a major Irish highway linking Cork to Dublin, forming a key part of the country’s primary inter-urban road network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M8 motorway canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3689431 — 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: M8 motorway Context triple: [Cork city, hasRoadConnection, M8 motorway]
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A.
M8 motorway
The M8 motorway is a major Scottish highway linking the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and serving as a key east–west transport corridor across the Central Belt.
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B.
M7 motorway
The M7 motorway is a major Hungarian highway that links Budapest with Lake Balaton and continues toward the Croatian border, serving as a key route in southwestern Hungary.
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C.
M9 motorway
The M9 motorway is a major Scottish highway connecting Edinburgh to Stirling and the Highlands, serving as a key transport route through central Scotland.
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D.
M11 motorway
The M11 motorway is a major road in England connecting London to Cambridge and serving as a key route for traffic between the capital, East Anglia, and the Midlands via the A14.
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E.
M6 motorway
The M6 motorway is a major north–south route in England, running from the Midlands to the Scottish border and serving as a key part of the UK’s strategic road network.
- 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: M8 motorway Target entity description: The M8 motorway is a major Irish highway linking Cork to Dublin, forming a key part of the country’s primary inter-urban road network.
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A.
M8 motorway
The M8 motorway is a major Scottish highway linking the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and serving as a key east–west transport corridor across the Central Belt.
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B.
M7 motorway
The M7 motorway is a major Hungarian highway that links Budapest with Lake Balaton and continues toward the Croatian border, serving as a key route in southwestern Hungary.
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C.
M9 motorway
The M9 motorway is a major Scottish highway connecting Edinburgh to Stirling and the Highlands, serving as a key transport route through central Scotland.
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D.
M11 motorway
The M11 motorway is a major road in England connecting London to Cambridge and serving as a key route for traffic between the capital, East Anglia, and the Midlands via the A14.
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E.
M6 motorway
The M6 motorway is a major north–south route in England, running from the Midlands to the Scottish border and serving as a key part of the UK’s strategic road network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motorway
ⓘ
road in Ireland ⓘ |
| connects |
Cork
ⓘ
Dublin ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| formsCorridorBetween |
Cork metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Cork
Greater Dublin Area ⓘ
linked to:
Dublin Region
|
| hasCarriagewayType | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| hasHardShoulder | yes on most sections ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
M50 motorway
ⓘ
M7 motorway ⓘ N25 road ⓘ N40 road ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | two lanes in each direction on most sections ⓘ |
| hasServiceAreas | yes ⓘ |
| hasTollPlazaNear | Fermoy ⓘ |
| isNumberedWithin | Irish motorway numbering system ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor | Cork–Dublin strategic transport corridor ⓘ |
| isTollRoad | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Republic of Ireland ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Transport Infrastructure Ireland ⓘ |
| openedInStages | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ireland’s primary inter-urban road network
ⓘ
Irish national primary road network ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Cahir
ⓘ
Cashel ⓘ Mitchelstown ⓘ Thurles ⓘ Urlingford ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
County Cork
ⓘ
County Kildare ⓘ County Kilkenny ⓘ County Laois ⓘ County Tipperary ⓘ |
| prohibits |
cyclists
ⓘ
learner drivers on certain vehicles ⓘ pedestrians ⓘ |
| restrictedTo | motorway-permitted traffic only ⓘ |
| roadNumber | M8 ⓘ |
| roadType | motorway-standard dual carriageway ⓘ |
| speedLimit | 120 km/h on most sections ⓘ |
| terminusA | Cork ⓘ |
| terminusB | Dublin ⓘ |
| upgradeFrom | N8 road ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter traffic to Cork
ⓘ
commuter traffic to Dublin ⓘ freight transport between Cork and Dublin ⓘ long-distance inter-urban 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: M8 motorway Description of subject: The M8 motorway is a major Irish highway linking Cork to Dublin, forming a key part of the country’s primary inter-urban road network.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.