LNER Class V2
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The LNER Class V2 was a class of powerful 2-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for mixed-traffic duties on the London and North Eastern Railway in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LNER Class V2 canonical | 5 |
| LNER Class V2 production series | 1 |
| LNER Class V2 steam locomotive | 1 |
| LNER Diagram 100A | 1 |
| LNER locomotives | 1 |
| LNER mixed-traffic locomotives | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1746644 — 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: LNER Class V2 Context triple: [London and North Eastern Railway, notableLocomotiveClass, LNER Class V2]
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A.
LMS Jubilee Class
The LMS Jubilee Class was a class of British steam locomotives built in the 1930s for express passenger services on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
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B.
LNER Class A1
The LNER Class A1 was a series of powerful British express passenger steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for high-speed mainline services in the early 20th century.
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C.
British Rail Class 47
The British Rail Class 47 is a widely used diesel-electric locomotive class introduced in the 1960s, notable for its extensive service across the UK rail network with both passenger and freight trains.
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D.
LNER Class A3
The LNER Class A3 was a famous class of British express steam locomotives, including the record-breaking Flying Scotsman, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for high-speed mainline passenger service.
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E.
British Rail Class 171
The British Rail Class 171 is a diesel multiple unit train used primarily by Southern in the UK, closely related to the Class 170 but equipped with different coupling systems for compatibility with other Southern stock.
- 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: LNER Class V2 Target entity description: The LNER Class V2 was a class of powerful 2-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for mixed-traffic duties on the London and North Eastern Railway in the mid-20th century.
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A.
LMS Jubilee Class
The LMS Jubilee Class was a class of British steam locomotives built in the 1930s for express passenger services on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
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B.
LNER Class A1
The LNER Class A1 was a series of powerful British express passenger steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for high-speed mainline services in the early 20th century.
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C.
British Rail Class 47
The British Rail Class 47 is a widely used diesel-electric locomotive class introduced in the 1960s, notable for its extensive service across the UK rail network with both passenger and freight trains.
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D.
LNER Class A3
The LNER Class A3 was a famous class of British express steam locomotives, including the record-breaking Flying Scotsman, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for high-speed mainline passenger service.
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E.
British Rail Class 171
The British Rail Class 171 is a diesel multiple unit train used primarily by Southern in the UK, closely related to the Class 170 but equipped with different coupling systems for compatibility with other Southern stock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: LNER Class V2 Description of subject: The LNER Class V2 was a class of powerful 2-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for mixed-traffic duties on the London and North Eastern Railway in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: LNER Class V2
linked to: LNER Class V2
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Green Arrow class
linked to: LNER Class V2