Valley Lines railway
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The Valley Lines railway is a commuter rail network in South Wales that links Cardiff with the surrounding South Wales Valleys, providing key regional passenger transport services.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valley Lines network | 4 |
| Valley Lines | 1 |
| Valley Lines railway canonical | 1 |
| Valley Lines suburban services | 1 |
| Valleys commuter corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6805277 — 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: Valley Lines railway Context triple: [Taff Valley, hasTransportCorridor, Valley Lines railway]
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A.
Looe Valley Line
The Looe Valley Line is a scenic rural railway in Cornwall, England, running along the Looe River between Liskeard and the coastal town of Looe.
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B.
Avon Valley Line
The Avon Valley Line is a railway route in southwest England that follows the River Avon, connecting key towns and cities in the region.
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C.
Fen Line
The Fen Line is a railway route in eastern England that runs north from Cambridge towards King’s Lynn, serving towns and communities across Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
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D.
Watercress Line
The Watercress Line is a preserved heritage railway in Hampshire, England, known for its steam-hauled trains running through the countryside between Alton and Alresford.
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E.
Hope Valley Line
The Hope Valley Line is a scenic railway route in northern England that runs through the Peak District, connecting Manchester and Sheffield via rural stations such as Edale.
- 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: Valley Lines railway Target entity description: The Valley Lines railway is a commuter rail network in South Wales that links Cardiff with the surrounding South Wales Valleys, providing key regional passenger transport services.
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A.
Looe Valley Line
The Looe Valley Line is a scenic rural railway in Cornwall, England, running along the Looe River between Liskeard and the coastal town of Looe.
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B.
Avon Valley Line
The Avon Valley Line is a railway route in southwest England that follows the River Avon, connecting key towns and cities in the region.
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C.
Fen Line
The Fen Line is a railway route in eastern England that runs north from Cambridge towards King’s Lynn, serving towns and communities across Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
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D.
Watercress Line
The Watercress Line is a preserved heritage railway in Hampshire, England, known for its steam-hauled trains running through the countryside between Alton and Alresford.
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E.
Hope Valley Line
The Hope Valley Line is a scenic railway route in northern England that runs through the Peak District, connecting Manchester and Sheffield via rural stations such as Edale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commuter rail network
ⓘ
passenger rail system ⓘ |
| connectsArea |
Cardiff urban area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Wales Valleys communities ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
Cardiff Central railway station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cardiff Queen Street railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | valley corridors of South Wales ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commuter access to Cardiff
ⓘ
public transport provision ⓘ regional connectivity ⓘ |
| hasTerminusCity | Cardiff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | public transport network of Cardiff ⓘ |
| languageOfRegion |
English
ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cardiff
ⓘ
South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| networkRole | key regional passenger transport service ⓘ |
| networkType |
suburban rail network
ⓘ
valley rail network ⓘ |
| partOf | rail transport in Wales ⓘ |
| primaryUse | passenger transport ⓘ |
| servesCity | Cardiff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion | South Wales Valleys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
commuter rail
ⓘ
regional rail ⓘ |
| transportMode | rail ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily commuting
ⓘ
local passenger journeys ⓘ |
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: Valley Lines railway Description of subject: The Valley Lines railway is a commuter rail network in South Wales that links Cardiff with the surrounding South Wales Valleys, providing key regional passenger transport services.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Valley Lines
this entity surface form:
Valley Lines suburban services
this entity surface form:
Valley Lines network
this entity surface form:
Valley Lines network
this entity surface form:
Valleys commuter corridor
this entity surface form:
Valley Lines network
this entity surface form:
Valley Lines network