Basel marshalling yard
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Basel marshalling yard is one of Europe’s largest and most important freight rail yards, serving as a major hub for cargo traffic in Switzerland and across the continent.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Basel freight rail installations | 1 |
| Basel marshalling yard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8977717 — 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: Basel marshalling yard Context triple: [Muttenz, hasRailFacility, Basel marshalling yard]
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A.
Basel railway stations
Basel railway stations are the city’s main rail hubs, serving as key national and international transit points that integrate long-distance, regional, and local train services.
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B.
Basel trinational transport hub
The Basel trinational transport hub is a major cross-border infrastructure complex that integrates road, rail, and air connections between France, Switzerland, and Germany, facilitating seamless international travel and trade in the Upper Rhine region.
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C.
Seestraße depot
Seestraße depot is a major maintenance and storage facility for trains on Berlin’s U-Bahn rapid transit network.
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D.
Grunewald depot
Grunewald depot is a major maintenance and storage facility for Berlin’s U-Bahn trains, located in the Grunewald area of the city.
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E.
Südkreuz station
Südkreuz station is a major Berlin transport hub serving regional, long-distance, and S-Bahn trains in the southern part of the city.
- 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: Basel marshalling yard Target entity description: Basel marshalling yard is one of Europe’s largest and most important freight rail yards, serving as a major hub for cargo traffic in Switzerland and across the continent.
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A.
Basel railway stations
Basel railway stations are the city’s main rail hubs, serving as key national and international transit points that integrate long-distance, regional, and local train services.
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B.
Basel trinational transport hub
The Basel trinational transport hub is a major cross-border infrastructure complex that integrates road, rail, and air connections between France, Switzerland, and Germany, facilitating seamless international travel and trade in the Upper Rhine region.
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C.
Seestraße depot
Seestraße depot is a major maintenance and storage facility for trains on Berlin’s U-Bahn rapid transit network.
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D.
Grunewald depot
Grunewald depot is a major maintenance and storage facility for Berlin’s U-Bahn trains, located in the Grunewald area of the city.
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E.
Südkreuz station
Südkreuz station is a major Berlin transport hub serving regional, long-distance, and S-Bahn trains in the southern part of the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
freight rail yard
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railway marshalling yard ⓘ |
| category |
rail freight infrastructure
ⓘ
transport infrastructure in Switzerland ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| function |
cargo sorting
ⓘ
freight marshalling ⓘ rail freight hub ⓘ |
| handles |
cargo traffic to and from Switzerland
ⓘ
domestic freight trains ⓘ international freight trains ⓘ transit freight traffic across Europe ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Basel
ⓘ
linked to:
Basel-Stadt
canton of Basel-Stadt ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Basel-Stadt
northwestern Switzerland ⓘ |
| partOf |
European rail freight network
ⓘ
linked to:
European freight corridor
Swiss rail freight network ⓘ |
| significance |
major hub for cargo traffic across Europe
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major hub for cargo traffic in Switzerland ⓘ one of Europe’s largest freight rail yards ⓘ one of Europe’s most important freight rail yards ⓘ |
| transportMode | rail ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Swiss rail freight operators
ⓘ
international rail freight operators ⓘ |
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: Basel marshalling yard Description of subject: Basel marshalling yard is one of Europe’s largest and most important freight rail yards, serving as a major hub for cargo traffic in Switzerland and across the continent.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Basel marshalling yard