Girvan railway station
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Girvan railway station is a railway station in South Ayrshire, Scotland, serving the town of Girvan on the Ayr to Stranraer line.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Girvan railway station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11373667 — 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: Girvan railway station Context triple: [Girvan, hasRailwayStation, Girvan railway station]
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A.
Kilmarnock railway station
Kilmarnock railway station is a key rail hub in East Ayrshire, Scotland, providing passenger services that connect the town of Kilmarnock with Glasgow, Ayr, and other destinations in the region.
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B.
Giffnock railway station
Giffnock railway station is a suburban rail stop in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, serving the town of Giffnock on the Glasgow South Western Line.
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C.
Port Glasgow railway station
Port Glasgow railway station is a rail transport facility in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, providing passenger services on the Inverclyde Line between Glasgow and the west coast.
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D.
Gourock railway station
Gourock railway station is a coastal terminus on the Inverclyde Line in Inverclyde, Scotland, serving the town of Gourock and providing rail connections to Glasgow and nearby ferry services.
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E.
Milngavie railway station
Milngavie railway station is a suburban rail station in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, serving the town of Milngavie and providing commuter links into Glasgow.
- 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: Girvan railway station Target entity description: Girvan railway station is a railway station in South Ayrshire, Scotland, serving the town of Girvan on the Ayr to Stranraer line.
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A.
Kilmarnock railway station
Kilmarnock railway station is a key rail hub in East Ayrshire, Scotland, providing passenger services that connect the town of Kilmarnock with Glasgow, Ayr, and other destinations in the region.
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B.
Giffnock railway station
Giffnock railway station is a suburban rail stop in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, serving the town of Giffnock on the Glasgow South Western Line.
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C.
Port Glasgow railway station
Port Glasgow railway station is a rail transport facility in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, providing passenger services on the Inverclyde Line between Glasgow and the west coast.
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D.
Gourock railway station
Gourock railway station is a coastal terminus on the Inverclyde Line in Inverclyde, Scotland, serving the town of Gourock and providing rail connections to Glasgow and nearby ferry services.
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E.
Milngavie railway station
Milngavie railway station is a suburban rail station in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, serving the town of Milngavie and providing commuter links into Glasgow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | railway station ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Scots Baronial ⓘ |
| category | National Rail station in Scotland ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| electrification | not electrified ⓘ |
| fareZone | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
CCTV
ⓘ
customer help point ⓘ public telephone ⓘ |
| hasBorough | Girvan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCounty | South Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
car park
ⓘ
cycle storage ⓘ step-free access ⓘ ticket office ⓘ toilets ⓘ waiting room ⓘ |
| hasGridReference | NX 184 973 ⓘ |
| hasManagement | ScotRail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginalCompany | Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlatformLayout | island platform ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Strathclyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasService |
local services between Ayr and Girvan
ⓘ
passenger rail services ⓘ services between Ayr and Stranraer ⓘ services to Glasgow Central ⓘ |
| hasStationCategory | DfT category F1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStationCode | GIR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
footbridge
ⓘ
signal box ⓘ |
| hasTicketingSystem | self-service ticket machine ⓘ |
| hasUse | regional rail transport ⓘ |
| isInTimeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| line | Ayr to Stranraer line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ayrshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Girvan NERFINISHED ⓘ South Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Glasgow South Western Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Firth of Clyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1877 ⓘ |
| operator | ScotRail ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Network Rail ⓘ |
| platformCount | 2 ⓘ |
| postGroupingCompany | London, Midland and Scottish Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preGroupingCompany | Glasgow and South Western Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reopened | 1906 ⓘ |
| serves | Girvan 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: Girvan railway station Description of subject: Girvan railway station is a railway station in South Ayrshire, Scotland, serving the town of Girvan on the Ayr to Stranraer line.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.