Nez Cassé locomotives
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Nez Cassé locomotives are a distinctive series of French electric and diesel-electric locomotives recognizable by their angular “broken nose” cab design, widely used by SNCF from the 1960s onward.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nez Cassé locomotives canonical | 4 |
| Nez cassé locomotives | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8946663 — 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: Nez Cassé locomotives Context triple: [BB 22200, family, Nez Cassé locomotives]
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A.
Locomotive
Locomotive is the nickname of El Paso Locomotive FC, a professional soccer club based in El Paso, Texas, that competes in the USL Championship.
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B.
Shay locomotive
The Shay locomotive is a geared steam locomotive design, widely used on logging and industrial railroads for its exceptional low-speed power and ability to handle steep grades and sharp curves.
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C.
Forney locomotive
The Forney locomotive is a compact 19th-century steam tank locomotive type, notable for its rigid wheelbase and rear-mounted fuel and water tanks, widely used on urban elevated and commuter railways.
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D.
Class 57 diesel locomotive
The Class 57 diesel locomotive is a British mainline locomotive type, rebuilt from older Class 47s, widely used for both passenger and freight services including prestigious sleeper and charter trains.
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E.
Genesis locomotives
Genesis locomotives are a series of streamlined diesel-electric passenger locomotives built by GE for North American intercity and commuter rail service.
- 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: Nez Cassé locomotives Target entity description: Nez Cassé locomotives are a distinctive series of French electric and diesel-electric locomotives recognizable by their angular “broken nose” cab design, widely used by SNCF from the 1960s onward.
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A.
Locomotive
Locomotive is the nickname of El Paso Locomotive FC, a professional soccer club based in El Paso, Texas, that competes in the USL Championship.
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B.
Shay locomotive
The Shay locomotive is a geared steam locomotive design, widely used on logging and industrial railroads for its exceptional low-speed power and ability to handle steep grades and sharp curves.
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C.
Forney locomotive
The Forney locomotive is a compact 19th-century steam tank locomotive type, notable for its rigid wheelbase and rear-mounted fuel and water tanks, widely used on urban elevated and commuter railways.
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D.
Class 57 diesel locomotive
The Class 57 diesel locomotive is a British mainline locomotive type, rebuilt from older Class 47s, widely used for both passenger and freight services including prestigious sleeper and charter trains.
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E.
Genesis locomotives
Genesis locomotives are a series of streamlined diesel-electric passenger locomotives built by GE for North American intercity and commuter rail service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (92)
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: Nez Cassé locomotives Description of subject: Nez Cassé locomotives are a distinctive series of French electric and diesel-electric locomotives recognizable by their angular “broken nose” cab design, widely used by SNCF from the 1960s onward.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
BB 22200 locomotives
subject linked to:
BB 15000 locomotives
subject linked to:
BB 7200 locomotives
linked to: Nez Cassé locomotives