Central Pacific Railroad No. 173
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Central Pacific Railroad No. 173 was a 19th-century steam locomotive whose design and appearance helped inspire the look of Disneyland’s C.K. Holliday engine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Central Pacific Railroad No. 173 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9816543 — 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: Central Pacific Railroad No. 173 Context triple: [C.K. Holliday, inspiredBy, Central Pacific Railroad No. 173]
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A.
Union Pacific No. 119
Union Pacific No. 119 was the steam locomotive that represented the Union Pacific Railroad at the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony marking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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B.
Union Pacific Challenger
The Union Pacific Challenger was a named passenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, known for providing comfortable, mid-priced long-distance service across the western United States.
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C.
Union Pacific Overland Route
The Union Pacific Overland Route was a premier transcontinental rail line that served as a primary passenger and freight corridor across the western United States.
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D.
Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive
The Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive is a distinctive class of steam engines with the cab placed at the front for crew safety, famously used by the Southern Pacific Railroad to haul trains through long, smoky mountain tunnels and snow sheds in the American West.
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E.
Southern Pacific GS-4
The Southern Pacific GS-4 is a class of streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotives built in the 1940s for the Southern Pacific Railroad, renowned for their distinctive orange and red "Daylight" livery and high-speed passenger service.
- 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: Central Pacific Railroad No. 173 Target entity description: Central Pacific Railroad No. 173 was a 19th-century steam locomotive whose design and appearance helped inspire the look of Disneyland’s C.K. Holliday engine.
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A.
Union Pacific No. 119
Union Pacific No. 119 was the steam locomotive that represented the Union Pacific Railroad at the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony marking the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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B.
Union Pacific Challenger
The Union Pacific Challenger was a named passenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, known for providing comfortable, mid-priced long-distance service across the western United States.
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C.
Union Pacific Overland Route
The Union Pacific Overland Route was a premier transcontinental rail line that served as a primary passenger and freight corridor across the western United States.
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D.
Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive
The Southern Pacific Cab Forward locomotive is a distinctive class of steam engines with the cab placed at the front for crew safety, famously used by the Southern Pacific Railroad to haul trains through long, smoky mountain tunnels and snow sheds in the American West.
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E.
Southern Pacific GS-4
The Southern Pacific GS-4 is a class of streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotives built in the 1940s for the Southern Pacific Railroad, renowned for their distinctive orange and red "Daylight" livery and high-speed passenger service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway vehicle
ⓘ
steam locomotive ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
C.K. Holliday locomotive design
ⓘ
Disneyland Railroad ⓘ |
| category | 19th-century steam locomotives of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era |
American Old West
ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
|
| gauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
19th-century American styling
ⓘ
appearance associated with Central Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| influenced | Disneyland Railroad locomotive styling ⓘ |
| influencedBy | 19th-century American locomotive design ⓘ |
| inspirationFor |
Disneyland Railroad No. 1 C.K. Holliday
ⓘ
linked to:
Disneyland Railroad
|
| inspired |
appearance of Disneyland locomotive C.K. Holliday
ⓘ
design of Disneyland locomotive C.K. Holliday ⓘ |
| locationCountryDuringService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locomotiveType | steam ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| operator | Central Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Pacific Railroad locomotive roster ⓘ |
| powerType | steam ⓘ |
| railroadCompany | Central Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| usedFor |
freight service
ⓘ
passenger service ⓘ railroad transportation ⓘ |
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: Central Pacific Railroad No. 173 Description of subject: Central Pacific Railroad No. 173 was a 19th-century steam locomotive whose design and appearance helped inspire the look of Disneyland’s C.K. Holliday engine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.