Presto card
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The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Presto card canonical | 55 |
| PRESTO card | 29 |
| PRESTO | 3 |
| PRESTO e-purse | 1 |
| PRESTO fare card system | 1 |
| PRESTO fare collection system | 1 |
| PRESTO smart card | 1 |
| Presto card (Toronto) | 1 |
| Presto card accepted | 1 |
| Presto card fare system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T239218 — 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: Presto card Context triple: [Toronto Transit Commission, fareSystem, Presto card]
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A.
TAP card
The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
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B.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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C.
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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D.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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E.
SEPTA Key
SEPTA Key is a contactless smart fare card and payment system used across Philadelphia’s SEPTA public transit network.
- 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: Presto card Target entity description: The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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A.
TAP card
The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
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B.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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C.
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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D.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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E.
SEPTA Key
SEPTA Key is a contactless smart fare card and payment system used across Philadelphia’s SEPTA public transit network.
- 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: Presto card Description of subject: The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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this entity surface form:
PRESTO
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
subject surface form:
UP Express at Union Station
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO
subject surface form:
MiWay
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
subject surface form:
Queen station
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
Presto card fare system
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO smart card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO card
this entity surface form:
PRESTO fare card system