First Transit
E256311
bus operator
paratransit operator
public transportation management company
shuttle operator
transit contracting company
First Transit is a North American public transportation management and contracting company that operates and maintains bus, paratransit, shuttle, and other transit services for municipalities and organizations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Transit canonical | 2 |
| FirstGroup student transportation division in North America | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2310412 — 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 Transit Context triple: [FirstGroup, hasSubsidiary, First Transit]
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A.
Omnitrans
Omnitrans is the primary public bus transit agency serving San Bernardino County and surrounding communities in Southern California.
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B.
Go-Ahead Group
Go-Ahead Group is a major British public transport operator that runs bus and rail services in the UK and internationally.
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C.
Montebello Bus Lines
Montebello Bus Lines is a public transit agency serving the city of Montebello and surrounding communities in Los Angeles County with local and express bus services.
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D.
Manchester Transit Authority
Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
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E.
Baltimore Transit Company
The Baltimore Transit Company was a private operator that ran streetcar and bus services in Baltimore, Maryland, before public transit was taken over by the state-run Maryland Transit Administration.
- 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 Transit Target entity description: First Transit is a North American public transportation management and contracting company that operates and maintains bus, paratransit, shuttle, and other transit services for municipalities and organizations.
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A.
Omnitrans
Omnitrans is the primary public bus transit agency serving San Bernardino County and surrounding communities in Southern California.
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B.
Go-Ahead Group
Go-Ahead Group is a major British public transport operator that runs bus and rail services in the UK and internationally.
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C.
Montebello Bus Lines
Montebello Bus Lines is a public transit agency serving the city of Montebello and surrounding communities in Los Angeles County with local and express bus services.
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D.
Manchester Transit Authority
Manchester Transit Authority is the primary public bus and paratransit service provider for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and surrounding areas.
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E.
Baltimore Transit Company
The Baltimore Transit Company was a private operator that ran streetcar and bus services in Baltimore, Maryland, before public transit was taken over by the state-run Maryland Transit Administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus operator
ⓘ
paratransit operator ⓘ public transportation management company ⓘ shuttle operator ⓘ transit contracting company ⓘ |
| areaServed |
local transit systems
ⓘ
regional transit systems ⓘ |
| businessModel |
contract operations for public agencies
ⓘ
outsourced transit management ⓘ |
| clientType |
airports
ⓘ
corporations ⓘ municipalities ⓘ public transit agencies ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| continentServed | North America ⓘ |
| countryServed |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus | outsourced public transportation services ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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surface form:
Cincinnati, Ohio
|
| industry |
contract transit operations
ⓘ
public transportation ⓘ transportation management ⓘ |
| operates |
airport shuttle services
ⓘ
campus shuttle services ⓘ demand-responsive paratransit services ⓘ employee shuttle services ⓘ fixed-route bus services ⓘ |
| parentCompany | FirstGroup ⓘ |
| provides |
maintenance staff for transit fleets
ⓘ
management services for transit agencies ⓘ operations staff for transit systems ⓘ |
| regionFocus | North American transit market ⓘ |
| sector | private sector transit operator ⓘ |
| serviceType |
bus operations management
ⓘ
contract operations for municipalities ⓘ contract operations for organizations ⓘ fleet maintenance ⓘ paratransit operations ⓘ shuttle operations ⓘ transit system management ⓘ |
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 Transit Description of subject: First Transit is a North American public transportation management and contracting company that operates and maintains bus, paratransit, shuttle, and other transit services for municipalities and organizations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
FirstGroup student transportation division in North America