BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard
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The BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard is a major intermodal rail facility in Seattle used for handling and transferring international and domestic container traffic for BNSF Railway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard canonical | 1 |
| BNSF intermodal facility | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5219782 — 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: BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard Context triple: [BNSF Seattle Subdivision (segments), connectsTo, BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard]
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A.
Union Pacific Yard
Union Pacific Yard is a rail yard facility operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for organizing, storing, and dispatching freight trains and rolling stock.
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B.
Union Pacific Depot
Union Pacific Depot, also known as the Great Overland Station, is a historic former railroad passenger station in Topeka, Kansas, noted for its grand architecture and role in American rail history.
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C.
Barstow Yard
Barstow Yard is a major railroad classification and freight yard in Barstow, California, serving as a key hub for train operations in the region.
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D.
Riverside Yard
Riverside Yard is a rail yard facility in Newton, Massachusetts, serving as a storage and maintenance area for trains on the MBTA Green Line’s D branch.
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E.
BNSF Seattle Subdivision
The BNSF Seattle Subdivision is a major freight and passenger rail corridor in the Seattle area, forming part of BNSF Railway’s main line through the Pacific Northwest.
- 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: BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard Target entity description: The BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard is a major intermodal rail facility in Seattle used for handling and transferring international and domestic container traffic for BNSF Railway.
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A.
Union Pacific Yard
Union Pacific Yard is a rail yard facility operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for organizing, storing, and dispatching freight trains and rolling stock.
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B.
Union Pacific Depot
Union Pacific Depot, also known as the Great Overland Station, is a historic former railroad passenger station in Topeka, Kansas, noted for its grand architecture and role in American rail history.
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C.
Barstow Yard
Barstow Yard is a major railroad classification and freight yard in Barstow, California, serving as a key hub for train operations in the region.
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D.
Riverside Yard
Riverside Yard is a rail yard facility in Newton, Massachusetts, serving as a storage and maintenance area for trains on the MBTA Green Line’s D branch.
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E.
BNSF Seattle Subdivision
The BNSF Seattle Subdivision is a major freight and passenger rail corridor in the Seattle area, forming part of BNSF Railway’s main line through the Pacific Northwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freight rail facility
ⓘ
intermodal rail yard ⓘ |
| category |
BNSF Railway facilities
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Intermodal freight transport facilities in the United States ⓘ Rail yards in Washington (state) ⓘ |
| city | Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| handlesTrafficType |
domestic container traffic
ⓘ
intermodal container traffic ⓘ international container traffic ⓘ |
| hasOwner | BNSF Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Seattle metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature | Puget Sound region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | BNSF Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | BNSF Railway intermodal network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
handling and transferring containerized freight
ⓘ
intermodal transfer between rail and truck ⓘ |
| railGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| railroad | BNSF Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railroadType | Class I railroad facility ⓘ |
| serves | Port of Seattle area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesAs | major intermodal hub for BNSF Railway in Seattle region ⓘ |
| servesCommodity | containerized freight ⓘ |
| servesMarket |
domestic intermodal freight market
ⓘ
international trade flows ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| transportMode |
rail
ⓘ
truck ⓘ |
| usedFor |
loading containers onto intermodal trains
ⓘ
staging and storage of intermodal containers ⓘ truck-rail transfer operations ⓘ unloading containers from intermodal 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: BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard Description of subject: The BNSF Seattle International Gateway (SIG) yard is a major intermodal rail facility in Seattle used for handling and transferring international and domestic container traffic for BNSF Railway.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
BNSF intermodal facility