Voyager family
E119095
The Voyager family is a series of high-speed diesel-electric multiple unit trains used in the United Kingdom for intercity passenger services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Voyager family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1049680 — 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: Voyager family Context triple: [Class 220 Voyager, family, Voyager family]
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A.
Voyager
Voyager is the Royal Air Force’s multi-role tanker transport aircraft, providing air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift capabilities.
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B.
Voyager program
The Voyager program is a NASA mission that launched the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977 to explore the outer planets and interstellar space, becoming one of humanity’s most significant and long-lived space exploration efforts.
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C.
Juno spacecraft
The Juno spacecraft is a NASA space probe designed to study Jupiter’s composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere to better understand the planet’s origin and evolution.
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D.
Haumea family
The Haumea family is a group of trans-Neptunian objects that share similar orbital characteristics and surface properties, believed to be fragments from a past collision involving the dwarf planet Haumea.
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E.
Cassini–Huygens
Cassini–Huygens was a joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission consisting of an orbiter and a lander that studied Saturn and its moons in unprecedented detail, including landing on Titan.
- 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: Voyager family Target entity description: The Voyager family is a series of high-speed diesel-electric multiple unit trains used in the United Kingdom for intercity passenger services.
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A.
Voyager
Voyager is the Royal Air Force’s multi-role tanker transport aircraft, providing air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift capabilities.
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B.
Voyager program
The Voyager program is a NASA mission that launched the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977 to explore the outer planets and interstellar space, becoming one of humanity’s most significant and long-lived space exploration efforts.
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C.
Juno spacecraft
The Juno spacecraft is a NASA space probe designed to study Jupiter’s composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere to better understand the planet’s origin and evolution.
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D.
Haumea family
The Haumea family is a group of trans-Neptunian objects that share similar orbital characteristics and surface properties, believed to be fragments from a past collision involving the dwarf planet Haumea.
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E.
Cassini–Huygens
Cassini–Huygens was a joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission consisting of an orbiter and a lander that studied Saturn and its moons in unprecedented detail, including landing on Titan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diesel-electric multiple unit family
ⓘ
family of multiple unit trains ⓘ |
| accessibilityFeature |
accessible toilets (on most units)
ⓘ
priority seating areas ⓘ |
| brakingSystem | air brakes ⓘ |
| builtFor | privatised UK train operating companies ⓘ |
| configuration | multiple-unit fixed formations ⓘ |
| controlSystem | multiple-unit control ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| couplingType | Dellner automatic couplers ⓘ |
| designedFor | high-speed operation on UK main lines ⓘ |
| designOrigin |
Bombardier Voyager family
ⓘ
surface form:
Bombardier Voyager platform
|
| doorType | power-operated sliding plug doors ⓘ |
| gauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
air-conditioned passenger accommodation
ⓘ
first-class accommodation (on many sets) ⓘ luggage storage areas ⓘ onboard toilets ⓘ tilting capability on some subclasses ⓘ |
| hasSubclass |
British Rail Class 220
ⓘ
British Rail Class 221 Super Voyager ⓘ
surface form:
British Rail Class 221
British Rail Class 221 Super Voyager ⓘ
surface form:
British Rail Class 222
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| introduced | early 2000s ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Alstom (formerly Bombardier Transportation)
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surface form:
Bombardier Transportation
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| marketedAs | Voyager ⓘ |
| network |
National Rail
ⓘ
surface form:
National Rail network of Great Britain
|
| nonTiltingSubclass |
British Rail Class 220
ⓘ
surface form:
British Rail Class 220 Voyager
British Rail Class 222 Meridian ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Avanti West Coast (some units, historical/transition)
ⓘ
CrossCountry ⓘ Virgin Trains ⓘ
surface form:
Virgin Trains (historical)
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| operatedOn |
CrossCountry network
ⓘ
West Coast Main Line ⓘ |
| operatorCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| powerSupply | onboard diesel engines ⓘ |
| propulsion | underfloor diesel engines driving electric traction motors ⓘ |
| replaced | older locomotive-hauled intercity stock on some routes ⓘ |
| safetySystem |
Automatic Warning System
ⓘ
surface form:
Automatic Warning System (AWS)
Train Protection & Warning System ⓘ
surface form:
Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS)
|
| serviceType |
intercity services
ⓘ
long-distance services ⓘ |
| tiltingSubclass | British Rail Class 221 Super Voyager ⓘ |
| topSpeed |
up to 125 mph
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up to 200 km/h ⓘ |
| tractionType | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| trainType | high-speed DMU ⓘ |
| usedFor | intercity passenger services ⓘ |
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: Voyager family Description of subject: The Voyager family is a series of high-speed diesel-electric multiple unit trains used in the United Kingdom for intercity passenger services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
British Rail Class 221 Super Voyager