Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited

E30010

freight railway company public company railway holding company

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited is a major North American freight railway company formed by the merger of Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern, operating an extensive rail network connecting Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

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All labels observed (12)

Label	Occurrences
Canadian Pacific Kansas City	25
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited canonical	7
Canadian Pacific Railway	4
CPKC	3
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway	2
Canadian Pacific	1
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (on some segments)	1
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (CPKC)	1
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway (CPKC)	1
Canadian Pacific Kansas City lines	1
Canadian Pacific Railway Company	1
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T187916 — 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: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited
Context triple: [Empire Builder, trackOwnerOnSegments, Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited]

A. BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, operating an extensive system that spans the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
B. Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
C. CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
D. Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad is one of the largest freight rail networks in the United States, operating an extensive system that spans the western two-thirds of the country.
E. Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
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: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited
Target entity description: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited is a major North American freight railway company formed by the merger of Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern, operating an extensive rail network connecting Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

A. BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America, operating an extensive system that spans the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico.
B. Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad was a major American Class I railroad that operated across the Midwestern and Southwestern United States, playing a key role in regional freight and passenger transportation before its merger into the Union Pacific system.
C. CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
D. Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad is one of the largest freight rail networks in the United States, operating an extensive system that spans the western two-thirds of the country.
E. Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway is a major U.S. freight railroad company operating an extensive rail network across the eastern United States.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	freight railway company ⓘ public company ⓘ railway holding company ⓘ
connectsRegion	Canada ⓘ Mexico ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
continentServed	North America ⓘ
corporateForm	limited company ⓘ
country	Canada ⓘ
formedByMergerOf	Canadian Pacific Railway ⓘ linked to: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited Kansas City Southern ⓘ linked to: Kansas City Southern Railway
hasMajorHub	Calgary, Alberta ⓘ linked to: Calgary Kansas City, Missouri ⓘ linked to: Kansas City, Missouri, United States Monterrey, Nuevo León ⓘ linked to: Monterrey
hasOfficialLanguage	English ⓘ French ⓘ
hasPredecessor	Canadian Pacific Railway Limited ⓘ linked to: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited Kansas City Southern ⓘ linked to: Kansas City Southern Railway
hasSubsidiary	Canadian Pacific Railway Company ⓘ linked to: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited Kansas City Southern de México ⓘ The Kansas City Southern Railway Company ⓘ linked to: Kansas City Southern Railway
headquartersLocation	Calgary, Alberta, Canada ⓘ linked to: Calgary
industry	freight transportation ⓘ rail transport ⓘ
modeOfTransport	rail ⓘ
networkCharacteristic	single-line rail network connecting Canada, the United States, and Mexico ⓘ
operatesInCountry	Canada ⓘ Mexico ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
parentCompanyOf	CPKC Railway operations in Canada ⓘ CPKC Railway operations in Mexico ⓘ CPKC Railway operations in the United States ⓘ
primaryCargo	automotive products ⓘ chemicals ⓘ coal ⓘ grain ⓘ intermodal containers ⓘ petroleum products ⓘ
railGauge	standard gauge ⓘ
routeFocus	Canada–U.S. cross-border traffic ⓘ U.S.–Mexico cross-border traffic ⓘ north–south freight corridors ⓘ
serviceType	bulk commodity transport ⓘ freight rail ⓘ intermodal freight transport ⓘ
shortName	CPKC ⓘ linked to: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited
stockExchange	New York Stock Exchange ⓘ Toronto Stock Exchange ⓘ
tickerSymbol	CP ⓘ

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