Winsford railway station
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Winsford railway station is a local rail stop in Cheshire, England, serving the town of Winsford on the West Coast Main Line with regional passenger services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winsford railway station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13042746 — 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: Winsford railway station Context triple: [Winsford, hasRailwayStation, Winsford railway station]
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A.
Whiston railway station
Whiston railway station is a suburban rail stop in Merseyside, England, serving the village of Whiston on the Liverpool–Manchester line.
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B.
Frodsham railway station
Frodsham railway station is a local rail stop in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, providing passenger services on routes between Manchester and Chester.
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C.
Knutsford railway station
Knutsford railway station is a local train station in Knutsford, Cheshire, England, providing regional rail services on the Mid-Cheshire Line between Chester and Manchester.
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D.
Runcorn railway station
Runcorn railway station is a mainline railway station in Cheshire, England, providing regional and intercity rail services, including connections on the West Coast Main Line.
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E.
Newton-le-Willows railway station
Newton-le-Willows railway station is a historic rail station in Merseyside, England, serving the town of Newton-le-Willows on the Liverpool–Manchester line.
- 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: Winsford railway station Target entity description: Winsford railway station is a local rail stop in Cheshire, England, serving the town of Winsford on the West Coast Main Line with regional passenger services.
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A.
Whiston railway station
Whiston railway station is a suburban rail stop in Merseyside, England, serving the village of Whiston on the Liverpool–Manchester line.
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B.
Frodsham railway station
Frodsham railway station is a local rail stop in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, providing passenger services on routes between Manchester and Chester.
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C.
Knutsford railway station
Knutsford railway station is a local train station in Knutsford, Cheshire, England, providing regional rail services on the Mid-Cheshire Line between Chester and Manchester.
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D.
Runcorn railway station
Runcorn railway station is a mainline railway station in Cheshire, England, providing regional and intercity rail services, including connections on the West Coast Main Line.
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E.
Newton-le-Willows railway station
Newton-le-Willows railway station is a historic rail station in Merseyside, England, serving the town of Newton-le-Willows on the Liverpool–Manchester line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway station
ⓘ
railway station in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| category | DfT category E station ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distanceFrom | approximately 2 miles south of Winsford town centre ⓘ |
| electrificationSystem | 25 kV AC overhead ⓘ |
| fareZone | Cheshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridReference | SJ 653 657 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
car park
ⓘ
step-free access to at least one platform ⓘ ticket office ⓘ waiting shelters ⓘ |
| hasPassengerInformationSystem |
digital departure boards
ⓘ
public address system ⓘ |
| hasPlatformLines | 2 ⓘ |
| hasServiceDestination |
Birmingham New Street
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chester NERFINISHED ⓘ Crewe NERFINISHED ⓘ Liverpool Lime Street NERFINISHED ⓘ London Euston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasServiceOperator |
Avanti West Coast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London Northwestern Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasServiceType |
regional services
ⓘ
stopping services ⓘ |
| hasThroughLines | 2 ⓘ |
| hasTicketingSystem | self-service ticket machines ⓘ |
| isOnRoute |
Crewe–Birmingham route
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crewe–Liverpool line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lineUsage | regional passenger services ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cheshire
ⓘ
England ⓘ Winsford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | B5074 road ⓘ |
| locatedOn | West Coast Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | West Midlands Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 19 October 1837 ⓘ |
| operator | West Midlands Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalCompany | Grand Junction Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformCount | 2 ⓘ |
| postGroupingCompany | London, Midland and Scottish Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preGroupingCompany | London and North Western Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayNetwork | National Rail ⓘ |
| railwayRegion | North West England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | Winsford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stationCode | WSF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackCount | 4 ⓘ |
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: Winsford railway station Description of subject: Winsford railway station is a local rail stop in Cheshire, England, serving the town of Winsford on the West Coast Main Line with regional passenger services.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.