Ilkeston railway station
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Ilkeston railway station is a modern railway station in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, providing local and regional train services after the town’s rail link was reinstated in 2017.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilkeston railway station canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6753910 — 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: Ilkeston railway station Context triple: [Ilkeston, hasRailwayStation, Ilkeston railway station]
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A.
Auchinleck railway station
Auchinleck railway station is a local rail stop in East Ayrshire, Scotland, providing passenger services on routes between Glasgow and southwestern destinations.
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B.
Brunstane railway station
Brunstane railway station is a suburban rail stop in Edinburgh, Scotland, serving local commuter services on the city’s rail network.
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C.
Inverkeithing railway station
Inverkeithing railway station is a key rail hub in Fife, Scotland, serving as an important interchange for services across the Fife Circle and routes to Edinburgh and beyond.
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D.
Galashiels railway station
Galashiels railway station is a key stop on the Borders Railway in the Scottish Borders, providing regular commuter and regional rail services to and from Edinburgh.
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E.
Milngavie railway station
Milngavie railway station is a suburban rail station in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, serving the town of Milngavie and providing commuter links into Glasgow.
- 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: Ilkeston railway station Target entity description: Ilkeston railway station is a modern railway station in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, providing local and regional train services after the town’s rail link was reinstated in 2017.
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A.
Auchinleck railway station
Auchinleck railway station is a local rail stop in East Ayrshire, Scotland, providing passenger services on routes between Glasgow and southwestern destinations.
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B.
Brunstane railway station
Brunstane railway station is a suburban rail stop in Edinburgh, Scotland, serving local commuter services on the city’s rail network.
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C.
Inverkeithing railway station
Inverkeithing railway station is a key rail hub in Fife, Scotland, serving as an important interchange for services across the Fife Circle and routes to Edinburgh and beyond.
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D.
Galashiels railway station
Galashiels railway station is a key stop on the Borders Railway in the Scottish Borders, providing regular commuter and regional rail services to and from Edinburgh.
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E.
Milngavie railway station
Milngavie railway station is a suburban rail station in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, serving the town of Milngavie and providing commuter links into Glasgow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway station
ⓘ
railway station in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distanceFromDerby | approximately 10 miles ⓘ |
| distanceFromNottingham | approximately 8 miles ⓘ |
| fareZone | Derbyshire ⓘ |
| gridReference | SK 461 433 ⓘ |
| hasAccessFeature |
ramps to platforms
ⓘ
step-free access ⓘ |
| hasBorough | Erewash ⓘ |
| hasCategory | DfT category F1 station ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
CCTV
ⓘ
car park ⓘ cycle parking ⓘ shelters ⓘ ticket machines ⓘ |
| hasInformationSystem |
customer information screens
ⓘ
public address system ⓘ |
| hasLighting | platform lighting ⓘ |
| hasOpeningStatus | open ⓘ |
| hasOperatorCategory | National Rail station ⓘ |
| hasPassengerUse |
commuter traffic
ⓘ
regional travel ⓘ |
| hasSecurityFeature | surveillance cameras ⓘ |
| hasServicePattern |
stopping services between Nottingham and Leeds
ⓘ
stopping services between Nottingham and Sheffield ⓘ |
| hasShelterType | covered waiting shelters ⓘ |
| hasStationCode | ILN ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | modern railway station ⓘ |
| hasTicketingSystem | self-service ticketing ⓘ |
| isOnNetwork | Midland Main Line network (via Erewash Valley Line) ⓘ |
| isPartOf | British railway network ⓘ |
| isServedByMode | rail ⓘ |
| line | Erewash Valley Line ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Derbyshire
ⓘ
East Midlands ⓘ England ⓘ Ilkeston ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Derby
ⓘ
Nottingham ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2017-04-02 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | East Midlands Railway ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Network Rail ⓘ |
| platformCount | 2 ⓘ |
| providesServiceType |
local train services
ⓘ
regional train services ⓘ |
| railLinkReinstated | 2017 ⓘ |
| replaced | former Ilkeston stations in the town ⓘ |
| servedBy | East Midlands Railway ⓘ |
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: Ilkeston railway station Description of subject: Ilkeston railway station is a modern railway station in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, providing local and regional train services after the town’s rail link was reinstated in 2017.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.