MetroAccess
E16029
door-to-door transportation service
paratransit service
public transportation service for people with disabilities
MetroAccess is a paratransit service providing door-to-door transportation for people with disabilities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MetroAccess canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T137412 — 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: MetroAccess Context triple: [Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, manages, MetroAccess]
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A.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
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B.
C-TRAN
C-TRAN is the public transit agency serving Clark County and the Vancouver, Washington area, providing bus and express services often coordinated with Portland’s TriMet system.
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C.
BART
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is a major rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area, linking cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley with surrounding suburbs and regional transit networks.
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D.
Metro B Line
The Metro B Line is a heavy rail subway line in Los Angeles that runs through central and Hollywood areas as part of the LA Metro Rail system.
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E.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
- 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: MetroAccess Target entity description: MetroAccess is a paratransit service providing door-to-door transportation for people with disabilities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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A.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
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B.
C-TRAN
C-TRAN is the public transit agency serving Clark County and the Vancouver, Washington area, providing bus and express services often coordinated with Portland’s TriMet system.
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C.
BART
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is a major rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area, linking cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley with surrounding suburbs and regional transit networks.
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D.
Metro B Line
The Metro B Line is a heavy rail subway line in Los Angeles that runs through central and Hollywood areas as part of the LA Metro Rail system.
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E.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
door-to-door transportation service
ⓘ
paratransit service ⓘ public transportation service for people with disabilities ⓘ |
| accessibilityFeature |
door-to-door assistance
ⓘ
wheelchair-accessible vehicles ⓘ |
| bookingMethod |
online reservation
ⓘ
telephone reservation ⓘ |
| bookingRequirement | trip reservation required ⓘ |
| brandOf |
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
WMATA paratransit services
|
| compliesWith | Americans with Disabilities Act ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| eligibilityBasis |
ADA paratransit criteria
ⓘ
functional disability ⓘ |
| farePolicy | reduced fare compared to taxi for eligible riders ⓘ |
| fareType | paratransit fare ⓘ |
| fundedBy | public transportation funds ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English customer information ⓘ |
| isPartOf | WMATA accessibility services ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Northern Virginia
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ suburban Maryland ⓘ |
| operator |
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
WMATA
|
| parentOrganization | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ⓘ |
| primaryUserGroup |
ADA-eligible riders
ⓘ
people with disabilities ⓘ |
| purpose | to provide ADA-compliant complementary paratransit service ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Washington metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
National Capital Region
|
| relatedTo |
Metrobus
ⓘ
Metrorail ⓘ |
| reservationWindow | advance booking required ⓘ |
| sector | public transit ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
District of Columbia
ⓘ
Maryland ⓘ Virginia ⓘ Washington metropolitan area ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
|
| serviceCategory |
demand-responsive transit
ⓘ
specialized transportation ⓘ |
| serviceMode |
sedan
ⓘ
van ⓘ |
| serviceModel |
curb-to-curb transportation
ⓘ
door-to-door transportation ⓘ |
| serviceType |
advance-reservation service
ⓘ
shared-ride service ⓘ |
| supports | mobility for people with disabilities in the Washington region ⓘ |
| targetPopulation | individuals unable to use fixed-route transit ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wmata.com/service/accessibility/metro-access.cfm ⓘ |
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: MetroAccess Description of subject: MetroAccess is a paratransit service providing door-to-door transportation for people with disabilities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Metrobus (Washington, D.C.)