East Midlands Railway
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East Midlands Railway is a British train operating company providing regional and intercity passenger rail services across the East Midlands and surrounding areas.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East Midlands Railway canonical | 87 |
| East Midlands Trains | 7 |
| East Midlands Railway intercity services | 1 |
| East Midlands Railway local services | 1 |
| East Midlands Railway regional services | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T167214 — 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: East Midlands Railway Context triple: [Oxford Road railway station, servesTrainOperator, East Midlands Railway]
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A.
TransPennine Express
TransPennine Express is a British train operating company providing intercity and regional rail services across northern England and into Scotland.
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B.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major pre-grouping British railway company that operated an extensive network of lines across industrial northern England during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Northern Trains
Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
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D.
Manchester to Leeds line
The Manchester to Leeds line is a key trans-Pennine railway route in northern England connecting major cities across the Pennines.
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E.
London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century British railway company that operated extensive routes across England and Wales before becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.
- 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: East Midlands Railway Target entity description: East Midlands Railway is a British train operating company providing regional and intercity passenger rail services across the East Midlands and surrounding areas.
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A.
TransPennine Express
TransPennine Express is a British train operating company providing intercity and regional rail services across northern England and into Scotland.
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B.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major pre-grouping British railway company that operated an extensive network of lines across industrial northern England during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Northern Trains
Northern Trains is a British train operating company that runs local and regional passenger rail services across Northern England.
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D.
Manchester to Leeds line
The Manchester to Leeds line is a key trans-Pennine railway route in northern England connecting major cities across the Pennines.
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E.
London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway was a major 19th- and early 20th-century British railway company that operated extensive routes across England and Wales before becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: East Midlands Railway Description of subject: East Midlands Railway is a British train operating company providing regional and intercity passenger rail services across the East Midlands and surrounding areas.
Referenced by (97)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Trains
subject surface form:
British Rail Class 170
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Trains
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Trains
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Railway regional services
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Railway local services
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Trains
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Trains
subject surface form:
British Rail Class 158
subject surface form:
British Rail Class 156
subject surface form:
Central Trains
this entity surface form:
East Midlands Trains