Bloor–Yonge station
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Bloor–Yonge station is one of Toronto’s busiest subway hubs, serving as a major transfer point between the city’s primary north–south and east–west rapid transit lines.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bloor–Yonge station canonical | 11 |
| Bloor Station | 2 |
| Bloor–Yonge subway station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T369665 — 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: Bloor–Yonge station Context triple: [Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, hasInterchangeStation, Bloor–Yonge station]
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A.
Union Station, Toronto
Union Station in Toronto is the city’s primary railway and transit hub, serving as a central gateway for regional, national, and local transportation.
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B.
Yonge-Dundas Square
Yonge-Dundas Square is a major public plaza and commercial hub in downtown Toronto, known for its bright billboards, events, and role as a central gathering place often compared to New York’s Times Square.
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C.
Line 1 Yonge–University
Line 1 Yonge–University is the busiest and oldest subway line in Toronto’s transit system, forming a U-shaped route through the city’s downtown core and major north–south corridors.
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D.
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth is a major east–west subway line in Toronto’s rapid transit system, running primarily along Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue.
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E.
Spadina streetcar line
The Spadina streetcar line is a major Toronto Transit Commission route running along Spadina Avenue, connecting key downtown destinations including the University of Toronto’s St. George campus.
- 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: Bloor–Yonge station Target entity description: Bloor–Yonge station is one of Toronto’s busiest subway hubs, serving as a major transfer point between the city’s primary north–south and east–west rapid transit lines.
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A.
Union Station, Toronto
Union Station in Toronto is the city’s primary railway and transit hub, serving as a central gateway for regional, national, and local transportation.
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B.
Yonge-Dundas Square
Yonge-Dundas Square is a major public plaza and commercial hub in downtown Toronto, known for its bright billboards, events, and role as a central gathering place often compared to New York’s Times Square.
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C.
Line 1 Yonge–University
Line 1 Yonge–University is the busiest and oldest subway line in Toronto’s transit system, forming a U-shaped route through the city’s downtown core and major north–south corridors.
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D.
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth is a major east–west subway line in Toronto’s rapid transit system, running primarily along Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue.
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E.
Spadina streetcar line
The Spadina streetcar line is a major Toronto Transit Commission route running along Spadina Avenue, connecting key downtown destinations including the University of Toronto’s St. George campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Toronto subway station
ⓘ
subway station ⓘ transport hub ⓘ |
| address | 20 Bloor Street East ⓘ |
| coordinates | 43.6703°N 79.3857°W ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| expansionReason | overcrowding and high passenger volumes ⓘ |
| fareSystem |
Presto card
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TTC fares ⓘ |
| fareZone | TTC single zone ⓘ |
| hasConnection |
surface bus routes on Bloor Street
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surface bus routes on Yonge Street ⓘ |
| hasEntranceOn |
Bloor Street East
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Yonge Street ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
escalators
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indoor pedestrian connections to nearby buildings ⓘ multiple concourse levels ⓘ stairs ⓘ |
| hasPlannedProject | capacity expansion project ⓘ |
| hasTransfer | cross-platform transfer not available ⓘ |
| isInterchangeBetween | Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth ⓘ |
| isMajorTransferPoint | true ⓘ |
| isOneOfBusiestStationsIn | Toronto subway system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Old Toronto
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Ontario ⓘ Toronto ⓘ Yorkville ⓘ |
| near |
Hudson’s Bay Centre
ⓘ
Manulife Centre ⓘ Yorkville ⓘ
surface form:
Yorkville shopping district
|
| numberOfPlatforms | 4 ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 4 ⓘ |
| opened |
1954
ⓘ
1966 ⓘ |
| openingDetail |
Bloor–Danforth line platforms opened 1966
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Yonge line platforms opened 1954 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Toronto Transit Commission ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Toronto Transit Commission ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | Toronto subway ⓘ |
| platformType |
centre platform
ⓘ
side platform ⓘ |
| servesLine |
Line 1 Yonge–University
ⓘ
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth ⓘ |
| structureType | underground ⓘ |
| symbol |
Toronto Transit Commission
ⓘ
surface form:
TTC subway
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| ticketing | fare-paid zone throughout station ⓘ |
| transferType | in-station transfer between Line 1 and Line 2 ⓘ |
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: Bloor–Yonge station Description of subject: Bloor–Yonge station is one of Toronto’s busiest subway hubs, serving as a major transfer point between the city’s primary north–south and east–west rapid transit lines.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
subject surface form:
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
this entity surface form:
Bloor–Yonge subway station
this entity surface form:
Bloor Station
this entity surface form:
Bloor Station
subject surface form:
Bloor–Yonge intersection