De Lijn
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De Lijn is the Flemish public transport company in Belgium that operates most regional bus and tram services in Flanders.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De Lijn canonical | 26 |
| De Lijn Antwerp | 1 |
| De Lijn West Flanders | 1 |
| De Lijn bus network | 1 |
| De Lijn network | 1 |
| De Lijn public transport network | 1 |
| Flemish Region (via De Lijn) | 1 |
| Flemish public transport operator De Lijn | 1 |
| VVM De Lijn | 1 |
| Vlaamse Vervoersmaatschappij De Lijn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11550122 — 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: De Lijn Context triple: [STIB-MIVB, cooperatesWith, De Lijn]
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A.
De Lijn tram network
The De Lijn tram network is a regional public transport system in Flanders, Belgium, operating urban and interurban tram services that complement and connect with De Lijn’s bus network.
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B.
De Lijn bus lines
De Lijn bus lines are regional public bus services operated by the Flemish transport company De Lijn, connecting cities and towns throughout Flanders and parts of Brussels.
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C.
Gaasperplas line
The Gaasperplas line is a metro line in Amsterdam that connects the city center with the southeastern Gaasperplas area.
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D.
Antwerp–Essen line
The Antwerp–Essen line is a Belgian railway route connecting the city of Antwerp with the town of Essen near the Dutch border, serving as an important regional and international rail corridor.
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E.
Ghent–Bruges railway line
The Ghent–Bruges railway line is a major Belgian rail route connecting the historic cities of Ghent and Bruges and serving several intermediate towns in Flanders.
- 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: De Lijn Target entity description: De Lijn is the Flemish public transport company in Belgium that operates most regional bus and tram services in Flanders.
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A.
De Lijn tram network
The De Lijn tram network is a regional public transport system in Flanders, Belgium, operating urban and interurban tram services that complement and connect with De Lijn’s bus network.
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B.
De Lijn bus lines
De Lijn bus lines are regional public bus services operated by the Flemish transport company De Lijn, connecting cities and towns throughout Flanders and parts of Brussels.
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C.
Gaasperplas line
The Gaasperplas line is a metro line in Amsterdam that connects the city center with the southeastern Gaasperplas area.
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D.
Antwerp–Essen line
The Antwerp–Essen line is a Belgian railway route connecting the city of Antwerp with the town of Essen near the Dutch border, serving as an important regional and international rail corridor.
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E.
Ghent–Bruges railway line
The Ghent–Bruges railway line is a major Belgian rail route connecting the historic cities of Ghent and Bruges and serving several intermediate towns in Flanders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: De Lijn Description of subject: De Lijn is the Flemish public transport company in Belgium that operates most regional bus and tram services in Flanders.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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