Rugeley power station A
E454826
Rugeley power station A was a coal-fired power station in Staffordshire, England, that operated from the 1960s and formed part of the region’s major electricity generation infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rugeley power station A canonical | 1 |
| Rugeley power station B | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4592948 — 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: Rugeley power station A Context triple: [Rugeley, hasNearbyPowerStation, Rugeley power station A]
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A.
Liddell Power Station
Liddell Power Station is a large coal-fired power plant in New South Wales, Australia, long serving as a major source of electricity generation before its planned closure as part of the country’s energy transition.
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B.
Agecroft power station
Agecroft power station was a coal-fired power station in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, that operated for much of the 20th century and played a significant role in the region’s industrial energy supply.
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C.
Murray 1 Power Station
Murray 1 Power Station is a major hydroelectric power station in Australia that forms part of the large-scale Snowy Mountains hydroelectric and irrigation complex.
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D.
Methil Power Station (former)
Methil Power Station (former) was a coal-fired power station in Methil, Fife, Scotland, that operated for much of the 20th century before its decommissioning and demolition.
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E.
Murray 2 Power Station
Murray 2 Power Station is a hydroelectric power station in Australia’s Snowy Mountains Scheme that generates electricity using water from the region’s interconnected reservoir system.
- 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: Rugeley power station A Target entity description: Rugeley power station A was a coal-fired power station in Staffordshire, England, that operated from the 1960s and formed part of the region’s major electricity generation infrastructure.
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A.
Liddell Power Station
Liddell Power Station is a large coal-fired power plant in New South Wales, Australia, long serving as a major source of electricity generation before its planned closure as part of the country’s energy transition.
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B.
Agecroft power station
Agecroft power station was a coal-fired power station in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, that operated for much of the 20th century and played a significant role in the region’s industrial energy supply.
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C.
Murray 1 Power Station
Murray 1 Power Station is a major hydroelectric power station in Australia that forms part of the large-scale Snowy Mountains hydroelectric and irrigation complex.
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D.
Methil Power Station (former)
Methil Power Station (former) was a coal-fired power station in Methil, Fife, Scotland, that operated for much of the 20th century before its decommissioning and demolition.
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E.
Murray 2 Power Station
Murray 2 Power Station is a hydroelectric power station in Australia’s Snowy Mountains Scheme that generates electricity using water from the region’s interconnected reservoir system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coal-fired power station
ⓘ
thermal power station ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Rugeley power station B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ashDisposal | ash lagoons ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1961 ⓘ |
| connectedBy | railway coal sidings ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
400 kV transmission network
ⓘ
local distribution networks in Staffordshire ⓘ |
| constructionStart | late 1950s ⓘ |
| coolingTowersCount | 6 ⓘ |
| coolingType | cooling towers ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1990 ⓘ |
| demolished | 1990s ⓘ |
| designedBy | CEGB engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electricalCapacity | 600 MW ⓘ |
| employerInArea | Rugeley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fuelHandling | coal conveyor systems ⓘ |
| fuelSource | nearby coal mines in Cannock Chase coalfield ⓘ |
| generatingUnitsType | steam turbine units ⓘ |
| generationType | base-load power generation ⓘ |
| gridConnection | National Grid (Great Britain) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Rugeley NERFINISHED ⓘ Staffordshire ⓘ |
| near |
Cannock Chase
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
River Trent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | large cooling towers visible in the Trent Valley ⓘ |
| numberOfUnits | 4 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Central Electricity Generating Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Central Electricity Generating Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rugeley power station complex
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UK nationalised electricity industry infrastructure ⓘ West Midlands region NERFINISHED ⓘ post-war UK electricity generation expansion ⓘ |
| peakOperatingPeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| primaryFuel | coal ⓘ |
| purpose | electricity generation ⓘ |
| regulator | Central Electricity Authority (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Rugeley power station B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| safetyStandard | mid-20th-century UK power station standards ⓘ |
| servedRegion |
Midlands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North West England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| smokestacks | yes ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| technology | pulverised coal combustion ⓘ |
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: Rugeley power station A Description of subject: Rugeley power station A was a coal-fired power station in Staffordshire, England, that operated from the 1960s and formed part of the region’s major electricity generation infrastructure.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rugeley power station B