Aalter railway station
E380627
Aalter railway station is a regional train station in the town of Aalter, Belgium, providing passenger rail services on the line between major Belgian cities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aalter railway station canonical | 2 |
| Aalter (internal Belgian rail code) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3697747 — 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: Aalter railway station Context triple: [Aalter, hasRailwayStation, Aalter railway station]
-
A.
Breukelen railway station
Breukelen railway station is a regional train station in the Dutch town of Breukelen, providing rail connections between Amsterdam, Utrecht, and surrounding areas.
-
B.
Heemstede-Aerdenhout railway station
Heemstede-Aerdenhout railway station is a Dutch train station serving the towns of Heemstede and Aerdenhout in the province of North Holland.
-
C.
Voorschoten railway station
Voorschoten railway station is a local train station in the town of Voorschoten in the Netherlands, serving regional rail connections between major Dutch cities.
-
D.
La Hulpe railway station
La Hulpe railway station is a local train station in La Hulpe, Belgium, providing regional rail connections for commuters and travelers.
-
E.
Sloterdijk station
Sloterdijk station is a major Amsterdam transport interchange that connects metro, train, tram, and bus services in the western part of the city.
- 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: Aalter railway station Target entity description: Aalter railway station is a regional train station in the town of Aalter, Belgium, providing passenger rail services on the line between major Belgian cities.
-
A.
Breukelen railway station
Breukelen railway station is a regional train station in the Dutch town of Breukelen, providing rail connections between Amsterdam, Utrecht, and surrounding areas.
-
B.
Heemstede-Aerdenhout railway station
Heemstede-Aerdenhout railway station is a Dutch train station serving the towns of Heemstede and Aerdenhout in the province of North Holland.
-
C.
Voorschoten railway station
Voorschoten railway station is a local train station in the town of Voorschoten in the Netherlands, serving regional rail connections between major Dutch cities.
-
D.
La Hulpe railway station
La Hulpe railway station is a local train station in La Hulpe, Belgium, providing regional rail connections for commuters and travelers.
-
E.
Sloterdijk station
Sloterdijk station is a major Amsterdam transport interchange that connects metro, train, tram, and bus services in the western part of the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway station
ⓘ
train station ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| electrification | yes ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Belgian domestic rail fares ⓘ |
| hasBuilding | yes ⓘ |
| hasConnections | local bus services ⓘ |
| hasFunction | passenger transport ⓘ |
| hasPlatform | yes ⓘ |
| hasStationCode |
Aalter railway station
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Aalter (internal Belgian rail code)
|
| locatedIn | Aalter ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
East Flanders
ⓘ
Flanders ⓘ Flemish Region ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedOnRouteBetween |
Bruges
ⓘ
Ghent ⓘ Ostend ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
SNCB/NMBS
ⓘ
surface form:
National Railway Company of Belgium
|
| ownedBy |
SNCB/NMBS
ⓘ
surface form:
National Railway Company of Belgium
|
| publicTransportMode | rail ⓘ |
| railGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| railwayLine |
Belgian railway line 50A
ⓘ
Ghent–Bruges railway line ⓘ |
| railwayNetwork | Belgian railway network ⓘ |
| serves | town of Aalter ⓘ |
| serviceType |
passenger rail
ⓘ
regional rail ⓘ |
| timezone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
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: Aalter railway station Description of subject: Aalter railway station is a regional train station in the town of Aalter, Belgium, providing passenger rail services on the line between major Belgian cities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aalter (internal Belgian rail code)