Kansas City Southern de México
E155797
Kansas City Southern de México is a major Mexican railway company that operates freight rail services connecting key industrial regions in Mexico with the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kansas City Southern de México canonical | 2 |
| Kansas City Southern de México (now part of CPKC) | 1 |
| Kansas City Southern de México network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1366352 — 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: Kansas City Southern de México Context triple: [Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, hasSubsidiary, Kansas City Southern de México]
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A.
Texas and Pacific Railway
The Texas and Pacific Railway was a major 19th- and 20th-century American railroad that operated across Texas and into the southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional transportation and economic development.
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B.
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
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C.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was a major American railroad that became one of the largest and most influential rail systems in the United States, central to the development of the Southwest.
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D.
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, operating an extensive system that spans the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
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E.
New Mexico Rail Runner Express
The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter rail service that connects major cities and communities in central New Mexico, including Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
- 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: Kansas City Southern de México Target entity description: Kansas City Southern de México is a major Mexican railway company that operates freight rail services connecting key industrial regions in Mexico with the United States.
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A.
Texas and Pacific Railway
The Texas and Pacific Railway was a major 19th- and 20th-century American railroad that operated across Texas and into the southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional transportation and economic development.
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B.
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
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C.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was a major American railroad that became one of the largest and most influential rail systems in the United States, central to the development of the Southwest.
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D.
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, operating an extensive system that spans the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
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E.
New Mexico Rail Runner Express
The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter rail service that connects major cities and communities in central New Mexico, including Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freight railroad
ⓘ
railway company ⓘ |
| abbreviation | KCSM ⓘ |
| borderCrossingFunction | connects Mexican rail network with U.S. rail network ⓘ |
| connectsToCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
agricultural products freight
ⓘ
automotive freight ⓘ energy products freight ⓘ industrial products freight ⓘ intermodal freight ⓘ |
| hasCrossBorderService | yes ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| hasOwnershipType | subsidiary ⓘ |
| hasRouteRole | north–south freight corridor in Mexico ⓘ |
| hasTransportMode | rail ⓘ |
| industry |
freight transport
ⓘ
rail transport ⓘ |
| isPartOf | North American rail network ⓘ |
| operatesInRegion |
Gulf of Mexico region
ⓘ
Mexico–U.S. border region ⓘ central Mexico ⓘ northeastern Mexico ⓘ |
| owns | railway network in Mexico ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Kansas City Southern Railway
ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas City Southern
|
| primaryBusiness | transportation of freight by rail ⓘ |
| railGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| regulatoryJurisdiction | Mexico ⓘ |
| servesCustomers |
industrial shippers in Mexico
ⓘ
international freight customers ⓘ |
| serviceType | freight rail ⓘ |
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: Kansas City Southern de México Description of subject: Kansas City Southern de México is a major Mexican railway company that operates freight rail services connecting key industrial regions in Mexico with the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kansas City Southern de México (now part of CPKC)
this entity surface form:
Kansas City Southern de México network