Maelbeek metro station
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Maelbeek metro station is a Brussels Metro station in Belgium’s European Quarter, known for serving key EU institutions and for being one of the sites of the 2016 Brussels bombings.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maelbeek metro station canonical | 3 |
| Maelbeek | 1 |
| Maelbeek / Maalbeek metro station | 1 |
| Maelbeek / Maalbeek station | 1 |
| Maelbeek station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1641277 — 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: Maelbeek metro station Context triple: [European Quarter of Brussels, contains, Maelbeek metro station]
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A.
Mérode metro station
Mérode metro station is a Brussels Metro and railway interchange station serving the eastern part of the city near key European institutions and Parc du Cinquantenaire.
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B.
Vijzelgracht metro station
Vijzelgracht metro station is an underground station on Amsterdam’s North–South metro line, serving the central canal belt area near Vijzelstraat.
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C.
Waterlooplein metro station
Waterlooplein metro station is an underground Amsterdam Metro station near the city center, serving the Waterlooplein area and key civic and cultural buildings.
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D.
De Pijp metro station
De Pijp metro station is an underground station on Amsterdam’s North–South metro line, serving the vibrant De Pijp neighborhood with modern transit connections.
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E.
Brussels-Schuman railway station
Brussels-Schuman railway station is a major rail and metro hub in Brussels’ European Quarter, serving EU institutions and providing regional and international connections.
- 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: Maelbeek metro station Target entity description: Maelbeek metro station is a Brussels Metro station in Belgium’s European Quarter, known for serving key EU institutions and for being one of the sites of the 2016 Brussels bombings.
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A.
Mérode metro station
Mérode metro station is a Brussels Metro and railway interchange station serving the eastern part of the city near key European institutions and Parc du Cinquantenaire.
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B.
Vijzelgracht metro station
Vijzelgracht metro station is an underground station on Amsterdam’s North–South metro line, serving the central canal belt area near Vijzelstraat.
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C.
Waterlooplein metro station
Waterlooplein metro station is an underground Amsterdam Metro station near the city center, serving the Waterlooplein area and key civic and cultural buildings.
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D.
De Pijp metro station
De Pijp metro station is an underground station on Amsterdam’s North–South metro line, serving the vibrant De Pijp neighborhood with modern transit connections.
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E.
Brussels-Schuman railway station
Brussels-Schuman railway station is a major rail and metro hub in Brussels’ European Quarter, serving EU institutions and providing regional and international connections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Maelbeek metro station Description of subject: Maelbeek metro station is a Brussels Metro station in Belgium’s European Quarter, known for serving key EU institutions and for being one of the sites of the 2016 Brussels bombings.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maelbeek station
this entity surface form:
Maelbeek
subject surface form:
Line 5 (Brussels Metro)
this entity surface form:
Maelbeek / Maalbeek station
this entity surface form:
Maelbeek / Maalbeek metro station