West Midlands Ambulance Service
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West Midlands Ambulance Service is a National Health Service (NHS) ambulance trust in England responsible for providing emergency medical services and patient transport across the West Midlands region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West Midlands Ambulance Service canonical | 8 |
| West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3963307 — 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: West Midlands Ambulance Service Context triple: [Kidsgrove, ambulanceService, West Midlands Ambulance Service]
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A.
North West Ambulance Service
North West Ambulance Service is a regional NHS ambulance trust in England responsible for providing emergency medical services and patient transport across the North West.
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B.
South Western Ambulance Service
South Western Ambulance Service is a National Health Service ambulance trust in England that provides emergency and urgent medical care across the South West region.
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C.
London Ambulance Service
The London Ambulance Service is the NHS trust responsible for providing emergency medical care and ambulance services across Greater London.
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D.
South Central Ambulance Service
South Central Ambulance Service is an NHS ambulance trust in England that provides emergency medical response, patient transport, and related healthcare services across several counties in the south central region.
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E.
South East Coast Ambulance Service
South East Coast Ambulance Service is an NHS ambulance trust in England responsible for providing emergency and non-emergency medical transport and pre-hospital care across parts of the South East, including West Sussex.
- 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: West Midlands Ambulance Service Target entity description: West Midlands Ambulance Service is a National Health Service (NHS) ambulance trust in England responsible for providing emergency medical services and patient transport across the West Midlands region.
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A.
North West Ambulance Service
North West Ambulance Service is a regional NHS ambulance trust in England responsible for providing emergency medical services and patient transport across the North West.
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B.
South Western Ambulance Service
South Western Ambulance Service is a National Health Service ambulance trust in England that provides emergency and urgent medical care across the South West region.
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C.
London Ambulance Service
The London Ambulance Service is the NHS trust responsible for providing emergency medical care and ambulance services across Greater London.
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D.
South Central Ambulance Service
South Central Ambulance Service is an NHS ambulance trust in England that provides emergency medical response, patient transport, and related healthcare services across several counties in the south central region.
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E.
South East Coast Ambulance Service
South East Coast Ambulance Service is an NHS ambulance trust in England responsible for providing emergency and non-emergency medical transport and pre-hospital care across parts of the South East, including West Sussex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NHS ambulance trust
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ambulance service ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | West Midlands ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem |
Ordnance Survey National Grid (for operations)
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linked to:
Ordnance Survey National Grid
|
| country | England ⓘ |
| employerType |
NHS trust
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linked to:
NHS organisations
|
| follows |
NHS clinical guidelines
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UK ambulance service protocols ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | WMAS ⓘ |
| hasEmergencyTelephoneNumber |
112
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999 ⓘ |
| hasMission |
provision of emergency and urgent medical care
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safe transport of NHS patients ⓘ |
| hasRegulator | Care Quality Commission ⓘ |
| hasService |
999 emergency ambulance response
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NHS 111 integrated urgent care (in parts of its area) ⓘ NHS non-emergency patient transport ⓘ air ambulance support (via charity partners) ⓘ critical care paramedic response ⓘ hazardous area response team ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://wmas.nhs.uk/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Brierley Hill
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Dudley ⓘ |
| industry |
emergency medical services
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patient transport services ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| operatedBy | National Health Service ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Department of Health and Social Care ⓘ |
| partOf |
English ambulance services network
ⓘ
linked to:
NHS ambulance services in England
NHS England ⓘ |
| publicService | yes ⓘ |
| sector | public healthcare ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Herefordshire
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Shropshire ⓘ Staffordshire ⓘ Warwickshire ⓘ West Midlands metropolitan county ⓘ
linked to:
West Midlands
West Midlands region ⓘ
linked to:
West Midlands
Worcestershire ⓘ
linked to:
Worcestershire, England
|
| subjectOf |
Care Quality Commission inspections
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NHS performance reports ⓘ |
| uses |
community first responders
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computer-aided dispatch systems ⓘ emergency operations centres ⓘ frontline double-crewed ambulances ⓘ paramedic-led ambulance crews ⓘ rapid response vehicles ⓘ |
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: West Midlands Ambulance Service Description of subject: West Midlands Ambulance Service is a National Health Service (NHS) ambulance trust in England responsible for providing emergency medical services and patient transport across the West Midlands region.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
NHS ambulance services in England
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hasComponent
→
West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
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linked to: West Midlands Ambulance Service