Union Station (Seattle)
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Union Station (Seattle) is a historic former train station in Seattle that now serves as an office and transit hub, notably housing Sound Transit’s headquarters.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Union Station (Seattle) canonical | 1 |
| Union Station Seattle | 1 |
| Union Station, Seattle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8928459 — 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: Union Station (Seattle) Context triple: [Seattle transportation network, hasComponent, Union Station (Seattle)]
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A.
Seattle King Street Station
Seattle King Street Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Seattle that serves as a major Amtrak and commuter rail hub for the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Tacoma Union Station
Tacoma Union Station is a historic former train station in Tacoma, Washington, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and current use as a federal courthouse and public event space.
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C.
Seattle Center station
Seattle Center station is the northern endpoint of Seattle’s historic monorail line, serving visitors to the Seattle Center complex and nearby attractions like the Space Needle.
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D.
SODO Station
SODO Station is a light rail station in Seattle’s SoDo (South of Downtown) industrial district, serving commuters and providing access to nearby warehouses, offices, and sports venues.
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E.
Bellevue Transit Center
Bellevue Transit Center is a major bus and light rail hub in Bellevue, Washington, serving as a key connection point for regional and local public transportation.
- 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: Union Station (Seattle) Target entity description: Union Station (Seattle) is a historic former train station in Seattle that now serves as an office and transit hub, notably housing Sound Transit’s headquarters.
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A.
Seattle King Street Station
Seattle King Street Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Seattle that serves as a major Amtrak and commuter rail hub for the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Tacoma Union Station
Tacoma Union Station is a historic former train station in Tacoma, Washington, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and current use as a federal courthouse and public event space.
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C.
Seattle Center station
Seattle Center station is the northern endpoint of Seattle’s historic monorail line, serving visitors to the Seattle Center complex and nearby attractions like the Space Needle.
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D.
SODO Station
SODO Station is a light rail station in Seattle’s SoDo (South of Downtown) industrial district, serving commuters and providing access to nearby warehouses, offices, and sports venues.
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E.
Bellevue Transit Center
Bellevue Transit Center is a major bus and light rail hub in Bellevue, Washington, serving as a key connection point for regional and local public transportation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
ⓘ
railway station ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | King Street Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
ⓘ
surface form:
Beaux-Arts architecture
|
| category |
Buildings and structures in Seattle
ⓘ
Former railway stations in Washington (state) ⓘ Railway stations in the United States opened in 1911 ⓘ Union Pacific Railroad stations ⓘ |
| closingDateAsRailStation | May 1971 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1910 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentFunction |
office building
ⓘ
transit agency headquarters ⓘ |
| formerFunction | intercity train station ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
barrel-vaulted ceiling
ⓘ
grand waiting room ⓘ large arched windows ⓘ terra cotta ornamentation ⓘ |
| headquartersOf | Sound Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places contributing property
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seattle landmark ⓘ |
| inception | 1911 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
King County
ⓘ
surface form:
King County, Washington
Pioneer Square, Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
brick
ⓘ
steel ⓘ terra cotta ⓘ |
| near |
International District/Chinatown station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lumen Field NERFINISHED ⓘ T-Mobile Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | May 20, 1911 ⓘ |
| operator | Sound Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Sound Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Seattle Chinatown–International District National Register Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renovation | late 1990s ⓘ |
| reopenedAsOffices | 1999 ⓘ |
| servedRailroad |
Milwaukee Road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Union Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
conferences
ⓘ
meetings ⓘ public events ⓘ |
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: Union Station (Seattle) Description of subject: Union Station (Seattle) is a historic former train station in Seattle that now serves as an office and transit hub, notably housing Sound Transit’s headquarters.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Union Station, Seattle
this entity surface form:
Union Station Seattle