GE U36B
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The GE U36B is a high-horsepower, four-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive built by General Electric in the 1970s for heavy mainline service on North American railroads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GE U36B canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8982000 — 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: GE U36B Context triple: [Seaboard System Railroad, notableLocomotiveModels, GE U36B]
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A.
GE ES44AC
The GE ES44AC is a high-horsepower, AC-traction diesel-electric freight locomotive from General Electric’s Evolution Series, widely used by North American railroads for heavy-haul service.
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B.
Neff-U
Neff-U is an American record producer known for his work in hip hop and R&B with artists such as Big Sean, Dr. Dre, and Eminem.
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C.
GE ES44DC
The GE ES44DC is a high-horsepower, diesel-electric freight locomotive from General Electric’s Evolution Series, designed to meet stricter emissions standards while providing efficient heavy-haul performance for North American railroads.
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D.
GE-645
GE-645 was a mainframe computer system developed by General Electric in the 1960s, notable for its advanced hardware support for time-sharing and virtual memory used in early operating systems research.
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E.
GE AC4400CW
The GE AC4400CW is a high-horsepower, AC-traction diesel-electric freight locomotive widely used by North American railroads for heavy-haul service.
- 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: GE U36B Target entity description: The GE U36B is a high-horsepower, four-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive built by General Electric in the 1970s for heavy mainline service on North American railroads.
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A.
GE ES44AC
The GE ES44AC is a high-horsepower, AC-traction diesel-electric freight locomotive from General Electric’s Evolution Series, widely used by North American railroads for heavy-haul service.
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B.
Neff-U
Neff-U is an American record producer known for his work in hip hop and R&B with artists such as Big Sean, Dr. Dre, and Eminem.
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C.
GE ES44DC
The GE ES44DC is a high-horsepower, diesel-electric freight locomotive from General Electric’s Evolution Series, designed to meet stricter emissions standards while providing efficient heavy-haul performance for North American railroads.
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D.
GE-645
GE-645 was a mainframe computer system developed by General Electric in the 1960s, notable for its advanced hardware support for time-sharing and virtual memory used in early operating systems research.
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E.
GE AC4400CW
The GE AC4400CW is a high-horsepower, AC-traction diesel-electric freight locomotive widely used by North American railroads for heavy-haul service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diesel-electric locomotive
ⓘ
road switcher ⓘ |
| axleCount | 4 ⓘ |
| brakeType | air ⓘ |
| builder | GE Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builderLocation | Erie, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtFor | North American railroads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| configuration | hood unit ⓘ |
| control | multiple-unit capable ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cylinderCount | 16 ⓘ |
| designedBy | General Electric Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor |
heavy freight trains
ⓘ
mainline operations ⓘ |
| engineType | turbocharged four-stroke diesel ⓘ |
| era | 1970s ⓘ |
| fuelType | diesel fuel ⓘ |
| gauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| introduced | 1970 ⓘ |
| locomotiveSeries | U36 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | General Electric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| market | North America freight market ⓘ |
| marketedAs | high-horsepower four-axle locomotive ⓘ |
| modelFamily | GE Universal Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
Auto-Train Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burlington Northern Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ Seaboard Coast Line Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Railway (U.S.) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerOutput | 3600 hp ⓘ |
| powerType | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
freight service
ⓘ
heavy mainline service ⓘ |
| primeMover | GE FDL-16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfOperation |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedModel |
GE U30B
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
GE U33B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | GE U30B–U36B line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType | road freight ⓘ |
| successorModel | GE B36-7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traction | adhesion ⓘ |
| tractionMotors | DC traction motors ⓘ |
| trainBrakes | air ⓘ |
| transmission | electric ⓘ |
| wheelArrangement | B-B ⓘ |
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: GE U36B Description of subject: The GE U36B is a high-horsepower, four-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive built by General Electric in the 1970s for heavy mainline service on North American railroads.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.