Macclesfield railway station
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Macclesfield railway station is a mainline railway station in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, served by intercity and regional services on the West Coast Main Line.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macclesfield railway station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4387152 — 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: Macclesfield railway station Context triple: [Macclesfield, hasRailwayStation, Macclesfield railway station]
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A.
Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow railway station is a key railway stop in Cheshire, England, providing regional and long-distance services on the West Coast Main Line.
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B.
Mossley railway station
Mossley railway station is a local rail stop in Mossley, Greater Manchester, England, providing regional passenger services on the Huddersfield Line between Manchester and Yorkshire.
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C.
Trafford Park railway station
Trafford Park railway station is a suburban rail stop in Greater Manchester, England, serving the Trafford Park area on the regional network.
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D.
Stalybridge railway station
Stalybridge railway station is a passenger rail station in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, serving as a key stop on routes between Manchester, Huddersfield, and beyond.
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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: Macclesfield railway station Target entity description: Macclesfield railway station is a mainline railway station in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, served by intercity and regional services on the West Coast Main Line.
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A.
Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow railway station is a key railway stop in Cheshire, England, providing regional and long-distance services on the West Coast Main Line.
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B.
Mossley railway station
Mossley railway station is a local rail stop in Mossley, Greater Manchester, England, providing regional passenger services on the Huddersfield Line between Manchester and Yorkshire.
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C.
Trafford Park railway station
Trafford Park railway station is a suburban rail stop in Greater Manchester, England, serving the Trafford Park area on the regional network.
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D.
Stalybridge railway station
Stalybridge railway station is a passenger rail station in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, serving as a key stop on routes between Manchester, Huddersfield, and beyond.
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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 |
mainline railway station
ⓘ
railway station ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| electrificationSystem | 25 kV AC overhead ⓘ |
| fareZone | National Rail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridReference | SJ918736 ⓘ |
| hasAdjacentStation |
Stockport railway station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stoke-on-Trent railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
car park
ⓘ
customer information screens ⓘ cycle parking ⓘ public address system ⓘ self-service ticket machines ⓘ staffed ticket office ⓘ step-free access ⓘ ticket office ⓘ toilets ⓘ waiting rooms ⓘ waiting shelters ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | XMZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMapReference | National Rail Enquiries map for Macclesfield ⓘ |
| hasStationCategory | DfT category C1 ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
island platform
ⓘ
side platform ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cheshire
ⓘ
Macclesfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Cheshire East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnLine | West Coast Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRoute |
Birmingham – Manchester
ⓘ
London Euston – Manchester Piccadilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Stoke-on-Trent – Manchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1960 ⓘ |
| operator |
Avanti West Coast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CrossCountry NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Trains ⓘ |
| owner | Network Rail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformCount | 3 ⓘ |
| region | North West England ⓘ |
| replaced | original Macclesfield Hibel Road station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByServiceType |
intercity rail services
ⓘ
regional rail services ⓘ |
| servedByTrainOperator |
Avanti West Coast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CrossCountry NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCity | Macclesfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stationCode | MAC ⓘ |
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: Macclesfield railway station Description of subject: Macclesfield railway station is a mainline railway station in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, served by intercity and regional services on the West Coast Main Line.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.