BART West Oakland station
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BART West Oakland station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving as a key junction for multiple Bay Area Rapid Transit lines near the eastern approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BART West Oakland station canonical | 1 |
| West Oakland station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3223548 — 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)
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Target entity: BART West Oakland station Context triple: [West Oakland, hasTransportationInfrastructure, BART West Oakland station]
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A.
BART Embarcadero Station
BART Embarcadero Station is a major underground transit hub in downtown San Francisco serving Bay Area Rapid Transit trains and connecting with Muni Metro light rail lines.
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B.
MacArthur BART station
MacArthur BART station is a major Bay Area Rapid Transit hub in Oakland, California, serving as a key transfer point for multiple lines and regional commuters.
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C.
Lake Merritt BART station
Lake Merritt BART station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Lake Merritt neighborhood and nearby civic and residential areas.
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D.
Rockridge BART station
Rockridge BART station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Rockridge neighborhood on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
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E.
San Francisco 4th and King Street station
San Francisco 4th and King Street station is a major commuter rail terminal in San Francisco that serves as the northern terminus for Caltrain services between the city and the Peninsula/Silicon Valley.
- 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: BART West Oakland station Target entity description: BART West Oakland station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving as a key junction for multiple Bay Area Rapid Transit lines near the eastern approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
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A.
BART Embarcadero Station
BART Embarcadero Station is a major underground transit hub in downtown San Francisco serving Bay Area Rapid Transit trains and connecting with Muni Metro light rail lines.
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B.
MacArthur BART station
MacArthur BART station is a major Bay Area Rapid Transit hub in Oakland, California, serving as a key transfer point for multiple lines and regional commuters.
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C.
Lake Merritt BART station
Lake Merritt BART station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Lake Merritt neighborhood and nearby civic and residential areas.
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D.
Rockridge BART station
Rockridge BART station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Rockridge neighborhood on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
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E.
San Francisco 4th and King Street station
San Francisco 4th and King Street station is a major commuter rail terminal in San Francisco that serves as the northern terminus for Caltrain services between the city and the Peninsula/Silicon Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
BART station
ⓘ
elevated railway station ⓘ rapid transit station ⓘ |
| accessible | yes ⓘ |
| adjacentStation |
Oakland City Center/12th Street station
ⓘ
surface form:
12th Street/Oakland City Center station
19th Street Oakland station ⓘ
surface form:
19th Street/Oakland station
Embarcadero station ⓘ MacArthur station ⓘ |
| city | Oakland ⓘ |
| coordinatesType | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| electrification | third rail ⓘ |
| faregatesLocation | concourse level ⓘ |
| fareZone |
BART
ⓘ
surface form:
BART fare system
|
| hasBicycleFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasBusConnections | yes ⓘ |
| hasElevators | yes ⓘ |
| hasEscalators | yes ⓘ |
| hasParking | yes ⓘ |
| hasTicketMachines | yes ⓘ |
| isJunctionOf | multiple BART lines ⓘ |
| line |
BART Antioch–SFO+Millbrae line
ⓘ
BART Berryessa/North San José–Daly City line ⓘ BART Berryessa/North San José–Daly City line ⓘ
surface form:
BART Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line
Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City line ⓘ
surface form:
BART Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City line
BART Richmond–Millbrae+SFO line ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alameda County
ⓘ
surface form:
Alameda County, California
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Oakland ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| near | eastern approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge ⓘ |
| numberOfPlatforms | 1 ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 2 ⓘ |
| opened | 1972 ⓘ |
| openingDate | November 1972 ⓘ |
| operator |
BART
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Area Rapid Transit
|
| ownedBy |
BART
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Area Rapid Transit
|
| partOf |
BART
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Area Rapid Transit system
|
| platformType | island platform ⓘ |
| positionOnNetwork | first station east of the Transbay Tube ⓘ |
| regionServed | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| serves |
Oakland
ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland, California
West Oakland ⓘ
surface form:
West Oakland neighborhood
|
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| structureType | elevated ⓘ |
| transitSystem |
BART
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Area Rapid Transit
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: BART West Oakland station Description of subject: BART West Oakland station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving as a key junction for multiple Bay Area Rapid Transit lines near the eastern approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
West Oakland station