Shasta Limited
E914839
Shasta Limited was a named passenger train service that operated on the Shasta Route in the western United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shasta Limited canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11261721 — 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: Shasta Limited Context triple: [Shasta Route, usedByService, Shasta Limited]
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A.
Awabakal Ltd
Awabakal Ltd is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation representing and providing services for the Awabakal people of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region in New South Wales, Australia.
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B.
Shao Industries
Shao Industries is a company or corporate entity associated with and employing Liwen Shao.
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C.
Supai Group
The Supai Group is a prominent sequence of red sandstone, siltstone, and shale rock layers that forms striking cliffs and slopes in many canyons and mesas across the Colorado Plateau.
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D.
South Pacific Enterprises
South Pacific Enterprises is the production company behind the classic 1958 film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific."
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E.
Pando Company
Pando Company is a film production company known for producing the movie "The Happy Ending."
- 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: Shasta Limited Target entity description: Shasta Limited was a named passenger train service that operated on the Shasta Route in the western United States.
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A.
Awabakal Ltd
Awabakal Ltd is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation representing and providing services for the Awabakal people of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region in New South Wales, Australia.
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B.
Shao Industries
Shao Industries is a company or corporate entity associated with and employing Liwen Shao.
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C.
Supai Group
The Supai Group is a prominent sequence of red sandstone, siltstone, and shale rock layers that forms striking cliffs and slopes in many canyons and mesas across the Colorado Plateau.
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D.
South Pacific Enterprises
South Pacific Enterprises is the production company behind the classic 1958 film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific."
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E.
Pando Company
Pando Company is a film production company known for producing the movie "The Happy Ending."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
named passenger train
ⓘ
passenger rail service ⓘ |
| category |
Named passenger trains of the United States
ⓘ
Passenger trains of the Southern Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| endDate | 1949 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Southern Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
luxury passenger accommodations
ⓘ
scenic mountain route ⓘ |
| operatedBetween |
Oakland Pier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portland Union Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | steam locomotive ⓘ |
| operatedFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| operatedInCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedInRegion | western United States ⓘ |
| operatedOnLine | Shasta Route NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEndpoints |
Oakland, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| railwayCompany | Southern Pacific Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayOperator | Southern Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeFeature |
Cascade Range
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Shasta NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacramento Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Willamette Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceClass | first-class passenger train ⓘ |
| serviceType | inter-city rail ⓘ |
| startDate | 1912 ⓘ |
| successor | Shasta Daylight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shasta Limited Description of subject: Shasta Limited was a named passenger train service that operated on the Shasta Route in the western United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.