Makurdi railway station
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Makurdi railway station is a train station serving the city of Makurdi in Benue State, Nigeria, as part of the country’s railway network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Makurdi railway station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4802429 — 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: Makurdi railway station Context triple: [Makurdi, hasRailwayStation, Makurdi railway station]
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A.
Lagos railway station
Lagos railway station is a railway terminus in the coastal city of Lagos, Portugal, serving as the western endpoint of the Algarve line and a key hub for regional passenger services.
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B.
Makurdi Airport
Makurdi Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Makurdi and its surrounding region in central Nigeria.
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C.
Onitsha Bridge Head
Onitsha Bridge Head is a major transport and commercial hub at the eastern end of the Niger River crossing in Onitsha, Nigeria, serving as a key gateway between eastern and western parts of the country.
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D.
Makurdi
Makurdi is the capital city of Benue State in central Nigeria, serving as an important administrative and commercial hub in the region.
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E.
Bauchi
Bauchi is a prominent city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Bauchi State and a key commercial and administrative center in the region.
- 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: Makurdi railway station Target entity description: Makurdi railway station is a train station serving the city of Makurdi in Benue State, Nigeria, as part of the country’s railway network.
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A.
Lagos railway station
Lagos railway station is a railway terminus in the coastal city of Lagos, Portugal, serving as the western endpoint of the Algarve line and a key hub for regional passenger services.
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B.
Makurdi Airport
Makurdi Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Makurdi and its surrounding region in central Nigeria.
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C.
Onitsha Bridge Head
Onitsha Bridge Head is a major transport and commercial hub at the eastern end of the Niger River crossing in Onitsha, Nigeria, serving as a key gateway between eastern and western parts of the country.
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D.
Makurdi
Makurdi is the capital city of Benue State in central Nigeria, serving as an important administrative and commercial hub in the region.
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E.
Bauchi
Bauchi is a prominent city in northeastern Nigeria that serves as the capital of Bauchi State and a key commercial and administrative center in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | railway station ⓘ |
| connectsTo | other Nigerian cities by rail ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | ground-level station ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Makurdi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Benue State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Central Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Benue River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Nigerian railway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Makurdi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Nigerian Railway Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Nigerian government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Nigerian railway system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransport | yes ⓘ |
| serves | city of Makurdi ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Benue State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle Belt region of Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportType | rail ⓘ |
| usedFor |
intercity rail services
ⓘ
regional rail services ⓘ |
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: Makurdi railway station Description of subject: Makurdi railway station is a train station serving the city of Makurdi in Benue State, Nigeria, as part of the country’s railway network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.