Stoke Bank
E651561
Stoke Bank is a stretch of high-speed railway in England renowned as the downhill section where the LNER locomotive Mallard set the world steam speed record in 1938.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stoke Bank canonical | 2 |
| Stoke Summit | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7265609 — 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: Stoke Bank Context triple: [Mallard, recordSection, Stoke Bank]
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A.
Broughton Moor
Broughton Moor is a small village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, known for its rural setting and former Royal Navy armaments depot.
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B.
Ribblehead
Ribblehead is a remote hamlet in North Yorkshire, England, best known for its dramatic moorland setting and the iconic Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle–Carlisle railway.
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C.
Great Staughton
Great Staughton is a rural village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its historic church and traditional English countryside setting.
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D.
Monsal Dale
Monsal Dale is a picturesque limestone valley in England’s Peak District National Park, renowned for its dramatic scenery, riverside walks, and the iconic Monsal Head viewpoint.
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E.
Shiremoor
Shiremoor is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England, situated near the North Sea coast and forming part of the Tyneside urban area.
- 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: Stoke Bank Target entity description: Stoke Bank is a stretch of high-speed railway in England renowned as the downhill section where the LNER locomotive Mallard set the world steam speed record in 1938.
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A.
Broughton Moor
Broughton Moor is a small village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, known for its rural setting and former Royal Navy armaments depot.
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B.
Ribblehead
Ribblehead is a remote hamlet in North Yorkshire, England, best known for its dramatic moorland setting and the iconic Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle–Carlisle railway.
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C.
Great Staughton
Great Staughton is a rural village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, known for its historic church and traditional English countryside setting.
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D.
Monsal Dale
Monsal Dale is a picturesque limestone valley in England’s Peak District National Park, renowned for its dramatic scenery, riverside walks, and the iconic Monsal Head viewpoint.
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E.
Shiremoor
Shiremoor is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England, situated near the North Sea coast and forming part of the Tyneside urban area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway gradient
ⓘ
railway location ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| hasRailwayGradient |
downhill
ⓘ
falling southbound from Stoke Summit ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
iconic location in British railway history
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important in steam locomotive performance trials ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
Mallard world steam speed record run
ⓘ
linked to:
LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard
|
| knownFor |
high‑speed railway running
ⓘ
site of Mallard world steam speed record ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lincolnshire ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Grantham ⓘ |
| locatedOn | East Coast Main Line ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature |
Stoke Summit
ⓘ
linked to:
Stoke Bank
|
| operatedBy | London and North Eastern Railway ⓘ |
| partOf | East Coast Main Line ⓘ |
| partOfRouteBetween | Grantham and Peterborough ⓘ |
| railwayDirectionOfRecordRun | southbound ⓘ |
| railwayLineUsage | high‑speed passenger services ⓘ |
| railwaySectionCharacter | downhill high‑speed section ⓘ |
| usedBy |
LNER express services
ⓘ
linked to:
LNER long-distance services
modern high‑speed services on East Coast Main Line ⓘ |
| worldRecordDate | 3 July 1938 ⓘ |
| worldRecordLocomotive | LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard ⓘ |
| worldRecordOperator | London and North Eastern Railway ⓘ |
| worldRecordSpeed |
126 mph
ⓘ
203 km/h ⓘ |
| worldRecordTrainType | steam‑hauled express train ⓘ |
| worldRecordType | steam locomotive speed record ⓘ |
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: Stoke Bank Description of subject: Stoke Bank is a stretch of high-speed railway in England renowned as the downhill section where the LNER locomotive Mallard set the world steam speed record in 1938.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stoke Bank