Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley
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Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley is a major inter-city rail service linking central England with the Scottish capital via the UK’s West Coast Main Line network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5617516 — 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: Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley Context triple: [Birmingham International railway station, servesRoute, Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley]
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A.
Birmingham New Street – Glasgow Central
Birmingham New Street – Glasgow Central is a long-distance intercity rail service linking England’s West Midlands with central Scotland.
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B.
London Euston – Glasgow
London Euston – Glasgow is a major intercity rail corridor in the United Kingdom linking the English capital with Scotland’s largest city along the West Coast Main Line.
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C.
London Euston – Birmingham
London Euston – Birmingham is a major intercity rail corridor in England linking the capital with the West Midlands.
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D.
Birmingham New Street to Liverpool Lime Street
Birmingham New Street to Liverpool Lime Street is a key inter-city rail route in England linking Birmingham and Liverpool via the West Midlands and the North West.
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E.
London Euston – Manchester
London Euston – Manchester is a major intercity rail corridor in the United Kingdom linking the capital with the city of Manchester on the West Coast Main Line.
- 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: Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley Target entity description: Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley is a major inter-city rail service linking central England with the Scottish capital via the UK’s West Coast Main Line network.
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A.
Birmingham New Street – Glasgow Central
Birmingham New Street – Glasgow Central is a long-distance intercity rail service linking England’s West Midlands with central Scotland.
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B.
London Euston – Glasgow
London Euston – Glasgow is a major intercity rail corridor in the United Kingdom linking the English capital with Scotland’s largest city along the West Coast Main Line.
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C.
London Euston – Birmingham
London Euston – Birmingham is a major intercity rail corridor in England linking the capital with the West Midlands.
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D.
Birmingham New Street to Liverpool Lime Street
Birmingham New Street to Liverpool Lime Street is a key inter-city rail route in England linking Birmingham and Liverpool via the West Midlands and the North West.
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E.
London Euston – Manchester
London Euston – Manchester is a major intercity rail corridor in the United Kingdom linking the capital with the city of Manchester on the West Coast Main Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
inter-city passenger rail service
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long-distance train service ⓘ |
| borderCrossing | England–Scotland border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Birmingham to Scotland rail route
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West Coast Main Line inter-city service ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Birmingham
NERFINISHED
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Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Central England
NERFINISHED
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Scottish Lowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| electrification | 25 kV AC overhead line (on electrified sections) ⓘ |
| endPoint | Edinburgh Waverley railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| network | West Coast Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
Avanti West Coast
NERFINISHED
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CrossCountry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | inter-city passenger transport ⓘ |
| railNetwork | National Rail network of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeDirection | south–north ⓘ |
| servesCountry |
England
NERFINISHED
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Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
inter-city
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passenger ⓘ |
| startPoint | Birmingham New Street railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminus |
Birmingham New Street railway station
NERFINISHED
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Edinburgh Waverley railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ticketingSystem | National Rail (Great Britain) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesRollingStock |
diesel-electric multiple unit
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electric multiple unit ⓘ |
| via |
Carlisle railway station
NERFINISHED
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Carstairs railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Crewe railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Haymarket railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Lancaster railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Lockerbie railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Motherwell railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxenholme Lake District railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Penrith North Lakes railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Preston railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Stafford railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ West Coast Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Wigan North Western railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolverhampton railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley Description of subject: Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley is a major inter-city rail service linking central England with the Scottish capital via the UK’s West Coast Main Line network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Birmingham International railway station
→
servesRoute
→
Birmingham New Street – Edinburgh Waverley
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