Indianapolis Union Station

E215663

historic building railway station union station

Indianapolis Union Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, notable as one of the first union stations in the United States and a key Midwestern passenger rail hub.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Indianapolis Union Station canonical	1
Union Station (Indianapolis)	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historic building ⓘ railway station ⓘ union station ⓘ
architect	Thomas Rodd ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Neo-Romanesque ⓘ surface form: Romanesque Revival architecture
category	Buildings and structures in Indianapolis ⓘ Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana ⓘ Union stations in the United States ⓘ
connectsWith	multiple railroad companies ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
floorCount	multiple stories ⓘ
hasAddress	downtown Indianapolis, Indiana ⓘ
hasCulturalSignificance	example of 19th-century railroad architecture ⓘ symbol of Indianapolis transportation history ⓘ
hasPart	clock tower ⓘ headhouse ⓘ train shed ⓘ
hasVisitorAttractionType	architectural landmark ⓘ historic site ⓘ
heritageDesignation	National Register of Historic Places ⓘ surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing
inception	1853 ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Marion County, Indiana ⓘ
locatedInTheRegion	Midwestern United States ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
locatedNextTo	railroad tracks through downtown Indianapolis ⓘ
location	Indianapolis ⓘ surface form: Indianapolis, Indiana
materialUsed	brick ⓘ stone ⓘ
nearby	Indiana Convention Center ⓘ Lucas Oil Stadium ⓘ Monument Circle ⓘ
notableFor	being one of the first union stations in the United States ⓘ role as a key Midwestern passenger rail hub ⓘ
ownedBy	Indianapolis ⓘ surface form: City of Indianapolis
partOf	Downtown Indianapolis ⓘ
publicTransitService	Amtrak services in Indianapolis ⓘ
railwayStationUsage	commuter and local access historically ⓘ intercity rail ⓘ
serves	passenger rail traffic ⓘ
significantEvent	adaptive reuse and renovation in late 20th century ⓘ construction of new headhouse in 1888 ⓘ decline of passenger rail service in mid-20th century ⓘ opening of first union station building in 1853 ⓘ
transportHubFor	Indianapolis metropolitan area ⓘ
use	commercial space ⓘ event space ⓘ railway terminal ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Indianapolis Union Station
Description of subject: Indianapolis Union Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, notable as one of the first union stations in the United States and a key Midwestern passenger rail hub.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cardinal (train) → hasMajorStation → Indianapolis Union Station ⓘ

Union Station → hasNotableExample → Indianapolis Union Station ⓘ

this entity surface form: Union Station (Indianapolis)