Meråkerbanen
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Meråkerbanen is a Norwegian railway line in Trøndelag that connects Trondheim to the Swedish border, serving both passenger and freight traffic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meråker Line | 3 |
| Meråkerbanen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5290757 — 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: Meråkerbanen Context triple: [SJ Norge, operatesOn, Meråkerbanen]
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A.
Gjøvik Line
The Gjøvik Line is a Norwegian railway route connecting Oslo with the town of Gjøvik through the inland districts north of the capital.
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B.
Numedal Line
The Numedal Line is a Norwegian railway route running through the Numedal valley, historically used for passenger and freight transport and now partly operated as a heritage and tourist line.
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C.
Drammen Line
The Drammen Line is a major Norwegian railway route connecting Oslo with the city of Drammen and serving as an important commuter and intercity corridor in the Oslo region.
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D.
Trønderbanen
Trønderbanen is a regional railway line in Trøndelag, Norway, providing passenger train services that connect Trondheim with surrounding towns and communities.
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E.
Randsfjord Line
The Randsfjord Line is a historic Norwegian railway line connecting Drammen to Hønefoss, once an important route for both passenger and freight traffic in southeastern Norway.
- 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: Meråkerbanen Target entity description: Meråkerbanen is a Norwegian railway line in Trøndelag that connects Trondheim to the Swedish border, serving both passenger and freight traffic.
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A.
Gjøvik Line
The Gjøvik Line is a Norwegian railway route connecting Oslo with the town of Gjøvik through the inland districts north of the capital.
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B.
Numedal Line
The Numedal Line is a Norwegian railway route running through the Numedal valley, historically used for passenger and freight transport and now partly operated as a heritage and tourist line.
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C.
Drammen Line
The Drammen Line is a major Norwegian railway route connecting Oslo with the city of Drammen and serving as an important commuter and intercity corridor in the Oslo region.
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D.
Trønderbanen
Trønderbanen is a regional railway line in Trøndelag, Norway, providing passenger train services that connect Trondheim with surrounding towns and communities.
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E.
Randsfjord Line
The Randsfjord Line is a historic Norwegian railway line connecting Drammen to Hønefoss, once an important route for both passenger and freight traffic in southeastern Norway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rail transport infrastructure
ⓘ
railway line ⓘ |
| borderCrossingPoint |
Storlien–Meråker border
ⓘ
linked to:
Norwegian–Swedish border
|
| connectsCity | Trondheim ⓘ |
| connectsRegion | Jämtland County ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Dovrebanen at Trondheim
ⓘ
linked to:
Dovrebanen
Mittbanan ⓘ Nordlandsbanen at Trondheim ⓘ
linked to:
Nordland Line
Swedish border ⓘ |
| country | Norway ⓘ |
| crossesBorderBetween |
Norway and Sweden
ⓘ
linked to:
Sweden–Norway
|
| electrification | non-electrified ⓘ |
| gauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| hasBorderFunction | international rail corridor between Norway and Sweden ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Norwegian ⓘ |
| hasServiceType |
freight trains
ⓘ
regional trains ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
important export route for Norwegian goods to Sweden
ⓘ
strategic line for military transport in early 20th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Trøndelag ⓘ |
| locatedInMunicipality |
Meråker
ⓘ
Stjørdal ⓘ Trondheim ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Meråker ⓘ |
| opened | 1881 ⓘ |
| operator | Bane NOR ⓘ |
| partOf | Nordic rail network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Hegra
ⓘ
Hell ⓘ Kopperå ⓘ Meråker ⓘ Storlien ⓘ |
| railwayLineNumber | 92 ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Central Norway
ⓘ
linked to:
central Norway
|
| startStation | Trondheim S ⓘ |
| status | in operation ⓘ |
| terminus |
Storlien
ⓘ
Trondheim ⓘ |
| trackConfiguration | single track ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight traffic
ⓘ
passenger traffic ⓘ |
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: Meråkerbanen Description of subject: Meråkerbanen is a Norwegian railway line in Trøndelag that connects Trondheim to the Swedish border, serving both passenger and freight traffic.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meråkerbanen
linked to: Meråkerbanen
linked to: Meråkerbanen