South Tacoma Station
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South Tacoma Station is a commuter rail stop in Tacoma, Washington, served by Sound Transit’s Sounder South Line and providing regional connections between Tacoma and the greater Puget Sound area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South Tacoma Station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6696637 — 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: South Tacoma Station Context triple: [Sounder South Line, station, South Tacoma Station]
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A.
Mercer Island Station
Mercer Island Station is a light rail transit stop serving the city of Mercer Island in the Seattle metropolitan area.
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B.
Tukwila International Boulevard Station
Tukwila International Boulevard Station is a major Sound Transit Link light rail station in Tukwila, Washington, serving as a key transit hub near Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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C.
SeaTac/Airport Station
SeaTac/Airport Station is a light rail transit station serving Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and the surrounding SeaTac area.
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D.
Tukwila Station
Tukwila Station is a commuter rail station in Tukwila, Washington, serving Sound Transit’s Sounder trains between Seattle and Tacoma.
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E.
SODO Station
SODO Station is a light rail station in Seattle’s SoDo (South of Downtown) industrial district, serving commuters and providing access to nearby warehouses, offices, and sports venues.
- 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: South Tacoma Station Target entity description: South Tacoma Station is a commuter rail stop in Tacoma, Washington, served by Sound Transit’s Sounder South Line and providing regional connections between Tacoma and the greater Puget Sound area.
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A.
Mercer Island Station
Mercer Island Station is a light rail transit stop serving the city of Mercer Island in the Seattle metropolitan area.
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B.
Tukwila International Boulevard Station
Tukwila International Boulevard Station is a major Sound Transit Link light rail station in Tukwila, Washington, serving as a key transit hub near Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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C.
SeaTac/Airport Station
SeaTac/Airport Station is a light rail transit station serving Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and the surrounding SeaTac area.
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D.
Tukwila Station
Tukwila Station is a commuter rail station in Tukwila, Washington, serving Sound Transit’s Sounder trains between Seattle and Tacoma.
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E.
SODO Station
SODO Station is a light rail station in Seattle’s SoDo (South of Downtown) industrial district, serving commuters and providing access to nearby warehouses, offices, and sports venues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sounder commuter rail station
ⓘ
commuter rail station ⓘ |
| accessible | yes ⓘ |
| bicycleFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| category |
Railway stations in Tacoma, Washington
ⓘ
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2012 ⓘ Sounder stations ⓘ |
| connectsRegionallyTo | greater Puget Sound area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Tacoma Dome Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystem | ORCA card NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLighting | yes ⓘ |
| hasParkAndRide | yes ⓘ |
| hasServiceType | weekday commuter service ⓘ |
| hasShelters | yes ⓘ |
| hasWaitingArea | yes ⓘ |
| isOnCorridor | BNSF Railway corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lineDesignation | Sounder S Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pierce County, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tacoma, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| numberOfPlatforms | 2 ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 2 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2012-10-08 ⓘ |
| operator | Sound Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Sound Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parkingAvailable | yes ⓘ |
| partOf | Sounder South Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformConfiguration | 2 side platforms ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | commuter rail stop ⓘ |
| railNetwork | Sound Transit Sounder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Puget Sound region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBy |
Sound Transit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sounder South Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Sounder commuter rail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCity | Tacoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structureType | at-grade ⓘ |
| ticketing | vending machines ⓘ |
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: South Tacoma Station Description of subject: South Tacoma Station is a commuter rail stop in Tacoma, Washington, served by Sound Transit’s Sounder South Line and providing regional connections between Tacoma and the greater Puget Sound area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.