TRA western trunk line
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The TRA Western Trunk Line is a major railway corridor in Taiwan that runs along the island’s western side, connecting key cities and serving as one of the country’s primary passenger and freight routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TRA western trunk line canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11870874 — 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: TRA western trunk line Context triple: [Tainan Station (TRA), isKeyNodeOn, TRA western trunk line]
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A.
Union Pacific West Line
The Union Pacific West Line is a commuter rail route in the Chicago metropolitan area that runs between downtown Chicago and western suburbs, providing daily passenger service as part of the Metra system.
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B.
BNSF Southern Transcon
The BNSF Southern Transcon is a major high-capacity freight rail corridor across the southern United States, serving as one of BNSF Railway’s primary routes for transcontinental intermodal and merchandise traffic.
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C.
BNSF Northern Transcon
BNSF Northern Transcon is a major transcontinental freight rail corridor of BNSF Railway that links the U.S. Pacific Northwest with the Midwest and Chicago.
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D.
Great Western Main Line
The Great Western Main Line is a major intercity railway route in England that connects London with key cities in the west, including Bristol and South Wales.
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E.
Linha do Oeste
Linha do Oeste is a major Portuguese railway line running along the country’s western coast, connecting Lisbon’s outskirts with several central-western cities and towns.
- 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: TRA western trunk line Target entity description: The TRA Western Trunk Line is a major railway corridor in Taiwan that runs along the island’s western side, connecting key cities and serving as one of the country’s primary passenger and freight routes.
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A.
Union Pacific West Line
The Union Pacific West Line is a commuter rail route in the Chicago metropolitan area that runs between downtown Chicago and western suburbs, providing daily passenger service as part of the Metra system.
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B.
BNSF Southern Transcon
The BNSF Southern Transcon is a major high-capacity freight rail corridor across the southern United States, serving as one of BNSF Railway’s primary routes for transcontinental intermodal and merchandise traffic.
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C.
BNSF Northern Transcon
BNSF Northern Transcon is a major transcontinental freight rail corridor of BNSF Railway that links the U.S. Pacific Northwest with the Midwest and Chicago.
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D.
Great Western Main Line
The Great Western Main Line is a major intercity railway route in England that connects London with key cities in the west, including Bristol and South Wales.
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E.
Linha do Oeste
Linha do Oeste is a major Portuguese railway line running along the country’s western coast, connecting Lisbon’s outskirts with several central-western cities and towns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway corridor
ⓘ
railway line ⓘ |
| connects |
Changhua
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chiayi NERFINISHED ⓘ Hsinchu NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaohsiung NERFINISHED ⓘ Keelung NERFINISHED ⓘ Miaoli NERFINISHED ⓘ Taichung NERFINISHED ⓘ Tainan NERFINISHED ⓘ Taipei NERFINISHED ⓘ Taoyuan NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
TRA Coast Line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
TRA Neiwan Line NERFINISHED ⓘ TRA Pingtung Line NERFINISHED ⓘ TRA Pingxi Line NERFINISHED ⓘ TRA Shalun Line NERFINISHED ⓘ TRA Taichung Line NERFINISHED ⓘ TRA Yilan Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electrification | 25 kV AC overhead line ⓘ |
| follows | western side of Taiwan Island ⓘ |
| hasService |
express trains
ⓘ
limited express trains ⓘ local trains ⓘ |
| locatedOn | west coast of Taiwan ⓘ |
| operator | Taiwan Railways Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Taiwan Railways network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Changhua County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chiayi City NERFINISHED ⓘ Chiayi County NERFINISHED ⓘ Hsinchu City NERFINISHED ⓘ Hsinchu County NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaohsiung City NERFINISHED ⓘ Miaoli County NERFINISHED ⓘ New Taipei NERFINISHED ⓘ Taichung City NERFINISHED ⓘ Tainan City NERFINISHED ⓘ Taoyuan City NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunlin County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ |
| regionServed | western Taiwan ⓘ |
| significance |
busiest conventional rail corridor in Taiwan
ⓘ
one of Taiwan’s primary railway routes ⓘ |
| terminus |
Kaohsiung
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keelung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackConfiguration | double track ⓘ |
| usesRailGauge |
1,067 mm gauge
ⓘ
3 ft 6 in gauge ⓘ |
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: TRA western trunk line Description of subject: The TRA Western Trunk Line is a major railway corridor in Taiwan that runs along the island’s western side, connecting key cities and serving as one of the country’s primary passenger and freight routes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.