LGV Nord
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LGV Nord is a high-speed railway line in northern France that connects Paris to Lille and onward to Belgium and the Channel Tunnel, forming a key corridor for TGV and international services.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LGV Nord canonical | 29 |
| LGV Nord high-speed line | 2 |
| HSL Nord (LGV Nord) | 1 |
| LGV Nord-Europe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661364 — 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: LGV Nord Context triple: [TGV, usesInfrastructure, LGV Nord]
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A.
LGV Sud-Est
LGV Sud-Est is a high-speed railway line in France that connects Paris to Lyon and the southeast, forming the backbone of the country’s TGV network.
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B.
Breckland line
The Breckland line is a railway route in East Anglia, England, running between Cambridge and Norwich through the rural Breckland region.
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C.
West Anglia Main Line
The West Anglia Main Line is a major railway route in eastern England that connects London with Cambridge and other destinations in the East of England.
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D.
Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line is a major inter-city railway route in England connecting London with key cities in the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
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E.
South West Main Line
The South West Main Line is a major railway route in southern England that connects London Waterloo with key towns and cities in Surrey, Hampshire, and Dorset.
- 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: LGV Nord Target entity description: LGV Nord is a high-speed railway line in northern France that connects Paris to Lille and onward to Belgium and the Channel Tunnel, forming a key corridor for TGV and international services.
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A.
LGV Sud-Est
LGV Sud-Est is a high-speed railway line in France that connects Paris to Lyon and the southeast, forming the backbone of the country’s TGV network.
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B.
Breckland line
The Breckland line is a railway route in East Anglia, England, running between Cambridge and Norwich through the rural Breckland region.
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C.
West Anglia Main Line
The West Anglia Main Line is a major railway route in eastern England that connects London with Cambridge and other destinations in the East of England.
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D.
Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line is a major inter-city railway route in England connecting London with key cities in the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
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E.
South West Main Line
The South West Main Line is a major railway route in southern England that connects London Waterloo with key towns and cities in Surrey, Hampshire, and Dorset.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | high-speed railway line ⓘ |
| connects |
Belgian border
ⓘ
Channel Tunnel ⓘ Lille ⓘ Paris ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Channel Tunnel Rail Link via Channel Tunnel
ⓘ
LGV Interconnexion Est ⓘ LGV Nord self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
LGV Nord-Europe
|
| connectsToNetwork |
Belgian high-speed network
ⓘ
Channel Tunnel infrastructure ⓘ |
| constructionStart | late 1980s ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| designedFor | 300 km/h operation ⓘ |
| electrification | 25 kV AC 50 Hz overhead line ⓘ |
| formsCorridorTo |
Belgium
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formsPartOfCorridor |
Paris–Amsterdam high-speed corridor
ⓘ
Thalys ⓘ
surface form:
Paris–Brussels high-speed corridor
Paris–London high-speed corridor ⓘ |
| hasSignallingSystem |
TVM-300
ⓘ
TVM-430 ⓘ |
| lineNumber |
LGV Nord
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
HSL Nord (LGV Nord)
|
| locatedIn | northern France ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 300 km/h ⓘ |
| nearTerminus | Lille-Europe station ⓘ |
| opened | 1993 ⓘ |
| openingDateSection | 23 May 1993 ⓘ |
| operator | SNCF Réseau ⓘ |
| owner |
Government of France
ⓘ
surface form:
French state
|
| partOf |
Lignes à grande vitesse (LGV) network
ⓘ
surface form:
French high-speed rail network
|
| primaryCityServed |
Lille
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| purpose | passenger high-speed services ⓘ |
| railwayType | double-track high-speed line ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Hauts-de-France
ⓘ
Île-de-France region ⓘ
surface form:
Île-de-France
|
| terminus |
Gare du Nord
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris-Gare-du-Nord
|
| trackGauge | 1,435 mm standard gauge ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Eurostar
ⓘ
TGV high-speed rail ⓘ
surface form:
TGV
TGV services ⓘ
surface form:
TGV Nord-Europe services
Thalys ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic high-speed services
ⓘ
international rail services ⓘ |
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: LGV Nord Description of subject: LGV Nord is a high-speed railway line in northern France that connects Paris to Lille and onward to Belgium and the Channel Tunnel, forming a key corridor for TGV and international services.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
TGV
this entity surface form:
LGV Nord-Europe
this entity surface form:
HSL Nord (LGV Nord)
subject surface form:
TGV Réseau
subject surface form:
TGV Réseau
subject surface form:
Lignes à grande vitesse network
this entity surface form:
LGV Nord high-speed line
this entity surface form:
LGV Nord high-speed line