Sheppard line
E292931
The Sheppard line is a short east–west subway line in Toronto’s TTC network running along Sheppard Avenue in the city’s north end.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheppard line canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2728453 — 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: Sheppard line Context triple: [Sheppard–Yonge station, connectsLine, Sheppard line]
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A.
Belgrave line
The Belgrave line is a suburban railway service in Melbourne, Australia, running from the city’s central business district into the outer eastern suburb of Belgrave.
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B.
Windsor Lines
Windsor Lines are a group of suburban and regional railway services in southwest London and Berkshire, connecting London Waterloo with destinations including Windsor and Eton Riverside.
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C.
Powell–Hyde line
The Powell–Hyde line is one of San Francisco’s iconic cable car routes, running from downtown near Union Square over Nob Hill to the waterfront at Fisherman’s Wharf.
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D.
Stirling Lines
Stirling Lines is the primary military base in Herefordshire, England that serves as the headquarters and main garrison for the British Army’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment.
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E.
Hastings line
The Hastings line is a railway route in Southeast England that connects London with the coastal town of Hastings, serving intermediate towns such as Royal Tunbridge Wells.
- 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: Sheppard line Target entity description: The Sheppard line is a short east–west subway line in Toronto’s TTC network running along Sheppard Avenue in the city’s north end.
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A.
Belgrave line
The Belgrave line is a suburban railway service in Melbourne, Australia, running from the city’s central business district into the outer eastern suburb of Belgrave.
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B.
Windsor Lines
Windsor Lines are a group of suburban and regional railway services in southwest London and Berkshire, connecting London Waterloo with destinations including Windsor and Eton Riverside.
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C.
Powell–Hyde line
The Powell–Hyde line is one of San Francisco’s iconic cable car routes, running from downtown near Union Square over Nob Hill to the waterfront at Fisherman’s Wharf.
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D.
Stirling Lines
Stirling Lines is the primary military base in Herefordshire, England that serves as the headquarters and main garrison for the British Army’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment.
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E.
Hastings line
The Hastings line is a railway route in Southeast England that connects London with the coastal town of Hastings, serving intermediate towns such as Royal Tunbridge Wells.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public transport infrastructure
ⓘ
rapid transit line ⓘ subway line ⓘ |
| connectsAtStation | Sheppard–Yonge station ⓘ |
| connectsWith | Line 1 Yonge–University ⓘ |
| fareSystem | TTC fare system ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Line 4 Sheppard ⓘ |
| hasColourOnMap | purple ⓘ |
| hasDirection | east–west ⓘ |
| hasElectrification | third rail ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfStations | 5 ⓘ |
| hasOpeningYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| hasServiceType | heavy rail rapid transit ⓘ |
| hasTerminus |
Don Mills station
ⓘ
Sheppard–Yonge station ⓘ |
| hasTrackGauge | standard TTC subway gauge ⓘ |
| isShorterThan |
Line 1 Yonge–University
ⓘ
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth ⓘ |
| isUnderground | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Ontario ⓘ Toronto ⓘ |
| locatedInArea | north end of Toronto ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Toronto Transit Commission ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Toronto
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Toronto
|
| partOf |
TTC network
ⓘ
Toronto subway ⓘ
surface form:
Toronto subway system
|
| runsAlong | Sheppard Avenue ⓘ |
| usesRollingStockType | subway trains ⓘ |
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: Sheppard line Description of subject: The Sheppard line is a short east–west subway line in Toronto’s TTC network running along Sheppard Avenue in the city’s north end.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.