Shanghai–Kunming railway
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The Shanghai–Kunming railway is a major east–west trunk line in China that connects the coastal metropolis of Shanghai with the southwestern city of Kunming, traversing several key provinces and economic regions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shanghai–Kunming railway canonical | 7 |
| Shanghai–Kunming High-Speed Railway | 3 |
| Jinshan Railway | 1 |
| Shanghai–Kunming high-speed railway | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1898082 — 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: Shanghai–Kunming railway Context triple: [Shanghai Railway Station, servedByRailwayLine, Shanghai–Kunming railway]
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A.
Beijing–Guangzhou Railway
The Beijing–Guangzhou Railway is one of China’s longest and most important north–south trunk rail lines, connecting the capital Beijing with the major southern metropolis of Guangzhou and serving numerous key cities along its route.
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B.
Beijing–Shanghai railway
The Beijing–Shanghai railway is one of China’s most important conventional rail lines, connecting the capital Beijing with the major economic hub of Shanghai and serving numerous key cities along its route.
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C.
Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway
The Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway is a high-speed rail line along China’s southeastern coast that connects major cities in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, significantly reducing travel times in the region.
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D.
Yichang–Wanzhou Railway
The Yichang–Wanzhou Railway is a major mountainous rail line in central China known for its numerous bridges and tunnels that dramatically shorten travel time between Hubei and Chongqing.
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E.
Yangluo Line
The Yangluo Line is a rapid transit line within the Wuhan Metro system serving the Yangluo area and connecting it to the broader urban 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: Shanghai–Kunming railway Target entity description: The Shanghai–Kunming railway is a major east–west trunk line in China that connects the coastal metropolis of Shanghai with the southwestern city of Kunming, traversing several key provinces and economic regions.
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A.
Beijing–Guangzhou Railway
The Beijing–Guangzhou Railway is one of China’s longest and most important north–south trunk rail lines, connecting the capital Beijing with the major southern metropolis of Guangzhou and serving numerous key cities along its route.
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B.
Beijing–Shanghai railway
The Beijing–Shanghai railway is one of China’s most important conventional rail lines, connecting the capital Beijing with the major economic hub of Shanghai and serving numerous key cities along its route.
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C.
Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway
The Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway is a high-speed rail line along China’s southeastern coast that connects major cities in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, significantly reducing travel times in the region.
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D.
Yichang–Wanzhou Railway
The Yichang–Wanzhou Railway is a major mountainous rail line in central China known for its numerous bridges and tunnels that dramatically shorten travel time between Hubei and Chongqing.
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E.
Yangluo Line
The Yangluo Line is a rapid transit line within the Wuhan Metro system serving the Yangluo area and connecting it to the broader urban network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway line
ⓘ
trunk railway line ⓘ |
| connects |
Kunming, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Kunming
Shanghai ⓘ |
| connectsEconomicRegion |
Yangtze River Delta
ⓘ
Southwest China ⓘ
surface form:
southwestern China economic region
|
| country | China ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| electrification | electrified ⓘ |
| endPoint |
Kunming, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Kunming
|
| gauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
central China
ⓘ
eastern China ⓘ southwestern China ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Kunming, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Kunming
Shanghai ⓘ |
| partOf |
Trans-China railway network
ⓘ
surface form:
China railway trunk network
|
| passesThrough |
Anhui
ⓘ
surface form:
Anhui Province
Guizhou Province ⓘ Hunan Province ⓘ Jiangsu ⓘ
surface form:
Jiangsu Province
Jiangxi Province ⓘ Yunnan Province ⓘ Zhejiang Province ⓘ |
| serves |
freight traffic
ⓘ
passenger traffic ⓘ |
| startPoint | Shanghai ⓘ |
| terminus |
Kunming, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Kunming
Shanghai ⓘ |
| uses | conventional rail ⓘ |
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: Shanghai–Kunming railway Description of subject: The Shanghai–Kunming railway is a major east–west trunk line in China that connects the coastal metropolis of Shanghai with the southwestern city of Kunming, traversing several key provinces and economic regions.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shanghai–Kunming High-Speed Railway
this entity surface form:
Jinshan Railway
this entity surface form:
Shanghai–Kunming High-Speed Railway
this entity surface form:
Shanghai–Kunming high-speed railway
this entity surface form:
Shanghai–Kunming High-Speed Railway