Brush Type 4
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Brush Type 4 is the original name for the British Rail Class 47, a widely used diesel-electric locomotive that became one of the most numerous and recognizable classes on the UK rail network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brush Type 4 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6208646 — 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: Brush Type 4 Context triple: [British Rail Class 47, nickName, Brush Type 4]
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A.
Brushstroke
Brushstroke is a 1965 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that magnifies a single painterly brushstroke into a bold, comic-strip-style image commenting on art and representation.
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B.
BB-45
BB-45 is the hull classification symbol for USS Colorado, a Colorado-class battleship that served in the United States Navy during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
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C.
Stylus
Stylus is a dynamic, expressive CSS preprocessor for Node.js that adds powerful features like variables, mixins, and flexible syntax to streamline stylesheet development.
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D.
B4
B4 is the internal designation for the fourth-generation Volkswagen Passat, produced in the mid-1990s with updated styling and engineering over its predecessor.
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E.
Brillo
Brillo is a lightweight, Android-based operating system developed by Google for powering and managing Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- 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: Brush Type 4 Target entity description: Brush Type 4 is the original name for the British Rail Class 47, a widely used diesel-electric locomotive that became one of the most numerous and recognizable classes on the UK rail network.
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A.
Brushstroke
Brushstroke is a 1965 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that magnifies a single painterly brushstroke into a bold, comic-strip-style image commenting on art and representation.
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B.
BB-45
BB-45 is the hull classification symbol for USS Colorado, a Colorado-class battleship that served in the United States Navy during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
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C.
Stylus
Stylus is a dynamic, expressive CSS preprocessor for Node.js that adds powerful features like variables, mixins, and flexible syntax to streamline stylesheet development.
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D.
B4
B4 is the internal designation for the fourth-generation Volkswagen Passat, produced in the mid-1990s with updated styling and engineering over its predecessor.
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E.
Brillo
Brillo is a lightweight, Android-based operating system developed by Google for powering and managing Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Rail locomotive class
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diesel-electric locomotive ⓘ mainline locomotive ⓘ |
| became | one of the most recognizable locomotive classes on the UK rail network ⓘ |
| becameOneOf | most numerous British mainline diesel locomotive classes ⓘ |
| builder |
British Railways Crewe Works
NERFINISHED
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Brush Traction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor |
freight services
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mixed-traffic duties ⓘ passenger services ⓘ |
| gauge | 1435 mm ⓘ |
| hasConfiguration | Co-Co ⓘ |
| hasLaterName | British Rail Class 47 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
high recognition among UK rail enthusiasts
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large production run compared to other British diesel classes ⓘ widespread allocation across multiple British Rail regions ⓘ |
| introducedAs | Type 4 under the British Railways power classification system ⓘ |
| locomotiveType | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| operatedOn |
British Rail Eastern Region
NERFINISHED
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British Rail Midland Region NERFINISHED ⓘ British Rail Scottish Region NERFINISHED ⓘ British Rail Western Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | British Rail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalDesignation | Brush Type 4 ⓘ |
| powerType | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| railwayNetwork | British Rail network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorDesignation | Class 47 ⓘ |
| trackGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| tractionType | electric transmission ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cross-country passenger trains
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freight trains ⓘ inter-city passenger 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: Brush Type 4 Description of subject: Brush Type 4 is the original name for the British Rail Class 47, a widely used diesel-electric locomotive that became one of the most numerous and recognizable classes on the UK rail network.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.