M271 motorway
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The M271 motorway is a short spur road in Hampshire, England, connecting the M27 to the city of Southampton and its docks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| M271 motorway canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5852690 — 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: M271 motorway Context triple: [M27 motorway, hasJunctionWith, M271 motorway]
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A.
M27 motorway
The M27 motorway is a major road in southern England that runs east–west along the south coast, linking the New Forest area with Southampton and Portsmouth.
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B.
M275 motorway
The M275 motorway is a short spur road in Hampshire, England, providing the main motorway access from the M27 to the city of Portsmouth and Portsea Island.
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C.
M26 motorway
The M26 motorway is a short English motorway in Kent that links the M25 and M20, serving as a key connector for traffic between London and the Channel ports.
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D.
M57 motorway
The M57 motorway is a major orbital route in North West England that serves as a bypass around Liverpool, connecting several key motorways and facilitating regional traffic flow.
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E.
M67 motorway
The M67 motorway is a short motorway in North West England that links the M60 near Manchester towards Hyde and is intended as the first section of a never-completed route to Sheffield.
- 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: M271 motorway Target entity description: The M271 motorway is a short spur road in Hampshire, England, connecting the M27 to the city of Southampton and its docks.
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A.
M27 motorway
The M27 motorway is a major road in southern England that runs east–west along the south coast, linking the New Forest area with Southampton and Portsmouth.
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B.
M275 motorway
The M275 motorway is a short spur road in Hampshire, England, providing the main motorway access from the M27 to the city of Portsmouth and Portsea Island.
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C.
M26 motorway
The M26 motorway is a short English motorway in Kent that links the M25 and M20, serving as a key connector for traffic between London and the Channel ports.
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D.
M57 motorway
The M57 motorway is a major orbital route in North West England that serves as a bypass around Liverpool, connecting several key motorways and facilitating regional traffic flow.
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E.
M67 motorway
The M67 motorway is a short motorway in North West England that links the M60 near Manchester towards Hyde and is intended as the first section of a never-completed route to Sheffield.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motorway in the United Kingdom
ⓘ
spur motorway ⓘ |
| connectsTo | M27 motorway ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccessControl | controlled-access highway ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision | Hampshire ⓘ |
| hasDirectionA | North ⓘ |
| hasDirectionB | South ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith | M27 motorway ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration | dual carriageway ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryFunction |
access to Southampton docks
ⓘ
link between M27 and Southampton ⓘ |
| hasRoadClassification | M road ⓘ |
| hasSpeedLimit | 70 mph (typical UK motorway limit) ⓘ |
| isSpurOf | M27 motorway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Hampshire ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Redbridge
ⓘ
River Test ⓘ Totton ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | National Highways ⓘ |
| partOf | British motorway network ⓘ |
| region | South East England ⓘ |
| roadNumber | M271 ⓘ |
| roadType | motorway ⓘ |
| serves |
Southampton docks
ⓘ
linked to:
Southampton Docks
|
| servesCity | Southampton ⓘ |
| terminusA | M27 motorway ⓘ |
| terminusB | Southampton ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight traffic to docks
ⓘ
local commuter 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: M271 motorway Description of subject: The M271 motorway is a short spur road in Hampshire, England, connecting the M27 to the city of Southampton and its docks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.