KCSM
E619145
KCSM is the Mexican subsidiary of the Kansas City Southern railway company, operating freight rail services across key industrial and cross-border corridors in Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KCSM canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6785748 — 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: KCSM Context triple: [Kansas City Southern de México, abbreviation, KCSM]
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A.
KDSM
KDSM is the ICAO airport code for Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines, Iowa, a key commercial aviation hub for the region.
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B.
KSMO
KSMO is the ICAO airport code for Santa Monica Airport, a general aviation airport serving Santa Monica, California.
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C.
KSMF
KSMF is the ICAO airport code for Sacramento International Airport, a major commercial airport serving California’s capital region.
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D.
KCSI
KCSI is the post-nominal title for a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India, a former British order of chivalry associated with colonial India.
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E.
KMCI
KMCI is the ICAO code for Kansas City International Airport, a major commercial airport serving the Kansas City metropolitan area in Missouri, USA.
- 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: KCSM Target entity description: KCSM is the Mexican subsidiary of the Kansas City Southern railway company, operating freight rail services across key industrial and cross-border corridors in Mexico.
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A.
KDSM
KDSM is the ICAO airport code for Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines, Iowa, a key commercial aviation hub for the region.
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B.
KSMO
KSMO is the ICAO airport code for Santa Monica Airport, a general aviation airport serving Santa Monica, California.
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C.
KSMF
KSMF is the ICAO airport code for Sacramento International Airport, a major commercial airport serving California’s capital region.
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D.
KCSI
KCSI is the post-nominal title for a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India, a former British order of chivalry associated with colonial India.
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E.
KMCI
KMCI is the ICAO code for Kansas City International Airport, a major commercial airport serving the Kansas City metropolitan area in Missouri, USA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freight rail operator
ⓘ
railway company ⓘ |
| cargoType |
agricultural products
ⓘ
automotive freight ⓘ energy products ⓘ industrial products ⓘ intermodal freight ⓘ |
| connectsCountry |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| focusesOn | industrial corridors in Mexico ⓘ |
| fullName | Kansas City Southern de México ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | KCSM ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | freight-only railway operations ⓘ |
| hasParentCompanyHeadquartersIn | Kansas City, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| industry | rail freight transportation ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Kansas City Southern rail network ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | rail ⓘ |
| networkType | standard gauge railway network ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Mexico
ⓘ
cross-border corridors between Mexico and the United States ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Kansas City Southern
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas City Southern Railway
|
| regulatoryEnvironment | Mexican rail transport regulation ⓘ |
| serviceType | freight rail services ⓘ |
| specializesIn | cross-border freight rail services ⓘ |
| subsidiaryOf |
Kansas City Southern
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas City Southern Railway
|
| transportInfrastructureType | railway infrastructure ⓘ |
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: KCSM Description of subject: KCSM is the Mexican subsidiary of the Kansas City Southern railway company, operating freight rail services across key industrial and cross-border corridors in Mexico.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.