Sheppard subway
E140181
Sheppard subway is a Toronto Transit Commission rapid transit line in North York that runs east–west along Sheppard Avenue.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheppard subway canonical | 2 |
| Sheppard subway corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T789198 — 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: Sheppard subway Context triple: [Line 4 Sheppard, hasFormerName, Sheppard subway]
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A.
Market Street subway
The Market Street subway is a major underground transit corridor in San Francisco that carries both BART and Muni Metro trains beneath Market Street through the city’s downtown.
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B.
Buchanan Street subway station
Buchanan Street subway station is a central Glasgow Subway station serving the busy Buchanan Street shopping district in Glasgow, Scotland.
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C.
Queens Quay streetcar line
The Queens Quay streetcar line is a Toronto streetcar route that runs along the city’s central waterfront, serving key destinations and attractions on Queens Quay.
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D.
Dearborn Street subway
The Dearborn Street subway is an underground rapid transit tunnel in downtown Chicago that carries Chicago Transit Authority trains beneath Dearborn Street.
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E.
Hillhead subway station
Hillhead subway station is a key stop on Glasgow’s Subway system, serving the West End and the nearby University of 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: Sheppard subway Target entity description: Sheppard subway is a Toronto Transit Commission rapid transit line in North York that runs east–west along Sheppard Avenue.
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A.
Market Street subway
The Market Street subway is a major underground transit corridor in San Francisco that carries both BART and Muni Metro trains beneath Market Street through the city’s downtown.
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B.
Buchanan Street subway station
Buchanan Street subway station is a central Glasgow Subway station serving the busy Buchanan Street shopping district in Glasgow, Scotland.
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C.
Queens Quay streetcar line
The Queens Quay streetcar line is a Toronto streetcar route that runs along the city’s central waterfront, serving key destinations and attractions on Queens Quay.
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D.
Dearborn Street subway
The Dearborn Street subway is an underground rapid transit tunnel in downtown Chicago that carries Chicago Transit Authority trains beneath Dearborn Street.
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E.
Hillhead subway station
Hillhead subway station is a key stop on Glasgow’s Subway system, serving the West End and the nearby University of Glasgow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Toronto subway line
ⓘ
rapid transit line ⓘ |
| direction | east–west ⓘ |
| electrification | third rail 600 V DC ⓘ |
| follows | Sheppard Avenue ⓘ |
| hasFareSystem | TTC fare system ⓘ |
| hasStation |
Bayview station
ⓘ
Bessarion station ⓘ Don Mills station ⓘ Leslie station ⓘ Sheppard–Yonge station ⓘ |
| interchangeStation | Sheppard–Yonge station ⓘ |
| interchangeWith | Line 1 Yonge–University ⓘ |
| lineColor | purple ⓘ |
| lineNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
North York ⓘ Ontario ⓘ Toronto ⓘ |
| numberOfStations | 5 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2002-11-24 ⓘ |
| operator | Toronto Transit Commission ⓘ |
| owner | Toronto Transit Commission ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork |
Toronto Transit Commission rapid transit network
ⓘ
linked to:
Toronto subway
|
| primaryLocale |
Sheppard Avenue corridor
ⓘ
linked to:
Sheppard Avenue
|
| rollingStock |
T1 subway trains
ⓘ
linked to:
T1 subway train
|
| servesBorough | North York ⓘ |
| serviceType | heavy rail ⓘ |
| system | Toronto subway ⓘ |
| terminus |
Don Mills station
ⓘ
Sheppard–Yonge station ⓘ |
| trackGauge | 1,495 mm ⓘ |
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: Sheppard subway Description of subject: Sheppard subway is a Toronto Transit Commission rapid transit line in North York that runs east–west along Sheppard Avenue.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sheppard subway