Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans)
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Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans) was a historic passenger rail station in New Orleans that served as a major hub for the Southern Railway before being superseded by the consolidated New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Orleans Union Station | 1 |
| New Orleans Union Station Annex | 1 |
| Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1896940 — 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: Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans) Context triple: [New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, replaced, Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans)]
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A.
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal is the primary intercity rail and bus station in New Orleans, Louisiana, serving as a major transportation hub for Amtrak and regional transit services.
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B.
Louisville and Nashville Station (New Orleans)
Louisville and Nashville Station (New Orleans) was a historic railroad passenger station in New Orleans that served the Louisville and Nashville Railroad before being superseded by the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
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C.
New Orleans Square Station
New Orleans Square Station is a themed stop on the Disneyland Railroad that serves the New Orleans Square area of Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.
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D.
Canal Street station complex
The Canal Street station complex is a major New York City Subway hub in Lower Manhattan where multiple lines intersect, providing extensive transfer options beneath the Canal Street corridor.
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E.
Southern Avenue station
Southern Avenue station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Prince George's County, Maryland, serving the Green Line near the District of Columbia border.
- 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: Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans) Target entity description: Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans) was a historic passenger rail station in New Orleans that served as a major hub for the Southern Railway before being superseded by the consolidated New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
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A.
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal is the primary intercity rail and bus station in New Orleans, Louisiana, serving as a major transportation hub for Amtrak and regional transit services.
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B.
Louisville and Nashville Station (New Orleans)
Louisville and Nashville Station (New Orleans) was a historic railroad passenger station in New Orleans that served the Louisville and Nashville Railroad before being superseded by the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
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C.
New Orleans Square Station
New Orleans Square Station is a themed stop on the Disneyland Railroad that serves the New Orleans Square area of Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.
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D.
Canal Street station complex
The Canal Street station complex is a major New York City Subway hub in Lower Manhattan where multiple lines intersect, providing extensive transfer options beneath the Canal Street corridor.
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E.
Southern Avenue station
Southern Avenue station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Prince George's County, Maryland, serving the Green Line near the District of Columbia border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former building
ⓘ
passenger rail terminal ⓘ railway station ⓘ |
| category |
Demolished buildings and structures in New Orleans
ⓘ
Former railway stations in Louisiana ⓘ Railway stations in New Orleans ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function | passenger rail service hub ⓘ |
| historicalUse | major hub for Southern Railway passenger operations ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Louisiana
ⓘ
New Orleans ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| partOf |
Southern Railway (U.S.)
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Railway passenger network
|
| railwayCompanyServed |
Southern Railway (U.S.)
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Railway
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| replacedBy | New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal ⓘ |
| served |
Southern Railway (U.S.)
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Railway
|
| servedCity | New Orleans ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| supersededBy | New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal ⓘ |
| usedFor | intercity passenger trains ⓘ |
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: Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans) Description of subject: Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans) was a historic passenger rail station in New Orleans that served as a major hub for the Southern Railway before being superseded by the consolidated New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
this entity surface form:
New Orleans Union Station
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
this entity surface form:
New Orleans Union Station Annex