Columbia station
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Columbia station is an elevated SkyTrain rapid transit station in New Westminster, British Columbia, serving Metro Vancouver’s Expo and Millennium Lines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Columbia station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9951908 — 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: Columbia station Context triple: [New Westminster, hasRailStation, Columbia station]
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A.
Columbia station
Columbia station was the former name of what is now JFK/UMass station, a major rapid transit and commuter rail hub in Boston, Massachusetts.
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B.
Columbia City Station
Columbia City Station is a light rail stop in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, serving Sound Transit’s Link light rail system.
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C.
Madison station
Madison station is a commuter rail stop in Madison, Connecticut, served by Shore Line East trains along the Northeast Corridor.
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D.
Snyder station
Snyder station is an underground rapid transit stop on SEPTA’s Broad Street Line serving South Philadelphia.
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E.
Clinton station
Clinton station is a commuter rail stop in Clinton, Connecticut, served by the Shore Line East line.
- 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: Columbia station Target entity description: Columbia station is an elevated SkyTrain rapid transit station in New Westminster, British Columbia, serving Metro Vancouver’s Expo and Millennium Lines.
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A.
Columbia station
Columbia station was the former name of what is now JFK/UMass station, a major rapid transit and commuter rail hub in Boston, Massachusetts.
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B.
Columbia City Station
Columbia City Station is a light rail stop in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, serving Sound Transit’s Link light rail system.
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C.
Madison station
Madison station is a commuter rail stop in Madison, Connecticut, served by Shore Line East trains along the Northeast Corridor.
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D.
Snyder station
Snyder station is an underground rapid transit stop on SEPTA’s Broad Street Line serving South Philadelphia.
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E.
Clinton station
Clinton station is a commuter rail stop in Clinton, Connecticut, served by the Shore Line East line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | SkyTrain station ⓘ |
| city | New Westminster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| electrification | third rail ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Compass Card NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fareZone | Zone 2 ⓘ |
| hasAccess | pedestrian entrances from street level ⓘ |
| hasAccessibility | wheelchair accessible ⓘ |
| hasAccessibilityFeature |
elevators
ⓘ
escalators ⓘ tactile warning strips ⓘ |
| hasConnection | local bus routes ⓘ |
| hasFareGates | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bike racks
ⓘ
passenger information displays ⓘ ticket vending machines ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringStation |
New Westminster station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Production Way–University station NERFINISHED ⓘ Sapperton station NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Road station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlatformType | side platforms ⓘ |
| hasSecurityFeature |
CCTV surveillance
ⓘ
Transit Police patrols ⓘ |
| hasServiceType | rapid transit ⓘ |
| hasShelter | covered platforms ⓘ |
| hasSignage | bilingual English–French safety signage ⓘ |
| hasStationCode | CO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTicketing | automated fare collection ⓘ |
| hasTracks | 2 ⓘ |
| isInterchangeBetween | Expo Line and Millennium Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnCorridor | SkyBridge–New Westminster section of Expo Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Greater Vancouver SkyTrain network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Metro Vancouver, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Metro Vancouver
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1985 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1985-12-11 ⓘ |
| operator | British Columbia Rapid Transit Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | TransLink (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | TransLink (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSystem | SkyTrain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformConfiguration | 2 side platforms ⓘ |
| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| servedByLine |
Expo Line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Millennium Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | downtown New Westminster ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Metro Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structureType | elevated ⓘ |
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: Columbia station Description of subject: Columbia station is an elevated SkyTrain rapid transit station in New Westminster, British Columbia, serving Metro Vancouver’s Expo and Millennium Lines.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.