First Student
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First Student is a major North American school bus transportation company providing student transportation services across numerous school districts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Student canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2310411 — 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: First Student Context triple: [FirstGroup, hasSubsidiary, First Student]
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A.
Madison Business College
Madison Business College was a former private business school in Madison, Wisconsin, known for training students in practical commercial and secretarial skills.
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B.
Lincoln Technical Institute
Lincoln Technical Institute is a career-focused vocational school system in the United States that offers technical training programs in fields such as automotive, skilled trades, healthcare, and information technology.
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C.
NOVA University
NOVA University is a public research university in Lisbon, Portugal, known for its innovative teaching, international outlook, and strong programs across fields such as business, science, technology, and social sciences.
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D.
LaPenta School of Business
LaPenta School of Business is the business school of Iona University, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in areas such as accounting, finance, marketing, and management.
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E.
National University Corporation
The National University Corporation is a legal framework in Japan under which major public universities, such as the University of Tokyo, are granted corporate status with administrative and financial autonomy while remaining state-supported institutions.
- 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: First Student Target entity description: First Student is a major North American school bus transportation company providing student transportation services across numerous school districts.
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A.
Madison Business College
Madison Business College was a former private business school in Madison, Wisconsin, known for training students in practical commercial and secretarial skills.
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B.
Lincoln Technical Institute
Lincoln Technical Institute is a career-focused vocational school system in the United States that offers technical training programs in fields such as automotive, skilled trades, healthcare, and information technology.
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C.
NOVA University
NOVA University is a public research university in Lisbon, Portugal, known for its innovative teaching, international outlook, and strong programs across fields such as business, science, technology, and social sciences.
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D.
LaPenta School of Business
LaPenta School of Business is the business school of Iona University, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in areas such as accounting, finance, marketing, and management.
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E.
National University Corporation
The National University Corporation is a legal framework in Japan under which major public universities, such as the University of Tokyo, are granted corporate status with administrative and financial autonomy while remaining state-supported institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
school bus transportation company
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student transportation provider ⓘ |
| brandOf |
First Transit
ⓘ
surface form:
FirstGroup student transportation division in North America
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| clientType |
private schools
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public schools ⓘ school districts ⓘ |
| continentOfOperation | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| focus |
contracted pupil transportation services
ⓘ
reliable transportation of students ⓘ safe transportation of students ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
school bus transportation
ⓘ
student transportation ⓘ |
| marketPosition | one of the largest student transportation providers in North America ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
private education transportation
ⓘ
public education transportation ⓘ |
| operatesVehicleType |
school buses
ⓘ
yellow school buses ⓘ |
| operationalModel | contract-based services with school districts ⓘ |
| ownsBrand | First Student Charter Bus Rental ⓘ |
| parentCompany | FirstGroup ⓘ |
| provides |
fleet maintenance for school buses
ⓘ
route planning for school transportation ⓘ transportation management services for school districts ⓘ |
| regionServed | numerous school districts across North America ⓘ |
| safetyEmphasis |
driver training programs
ⓘ
school bus safety standards compliance ⓘ |
| sector | education transportation ⓘ |
| serviceType |
charter bus services
ⓘ
contracted school bus services ⓘ field trip transportation ⓘ home-to-school transportation ⓘ special needs student transportation ⓘ |
| targetPopulation | K-12 students ⓘ |
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: First Student Description of subject: First Student is a major North American school bus transportation company providing student transportation services across numerous school districts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.