Muni bus network
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The Muni bus network is San Francisco’s citywide public transit system of buses and trolleybuses that provides comprehensive surface transportation across the city.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T298003 — 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: Muni bus network Context triple: [Powell–Hyde line, connectsTo, Muni bus network]
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A.
Metro Bus
Metro Bus is the primary public bus service network for Los Angeles County, providing extensive local and rapid transit across the region.
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B.
Muni Passport
Muni Passport is a time-based transit pass that provides unlimited rides on San Francisco’s Muni system, including historic streetcars and cable cars, for a set number of days.
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C.
DC Circulator bus system
The DC Circulator bus system is a public transit network in Washington, D.C. that provides frequent, low-cost bus service along key routes connecting major neighborhoods and activity centers.
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D.
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).
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E.
Short Line bus service
Short Line bus service is a regional intercity and commuter bus operator in the northeastern United States, providing connections between communities in New York and neighboring states.
- 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: Muni bus network Target entity description: The Muni bus network is San Francisco’s citywide public transit system of buses and trolleybuses that provides comprehensive surface transportation across the city.
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A.
Metro Bus
Metro Bus is the primary public bus service network for Los Angeles County, providing extensive local and rapid transit across the region.
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B.
Muni Passport
Muni Passport is a time-based transit pass that provides unlimited rides on San Francisco’s Muni system, including historic streetcars and cable cars, for a set number of days.
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C.
DC Circulator bus system
The DC Circulator bus system is a public transit network in Washington, D.C. that provides frequent, low-cost bus service along key routes connecting major neighborhoods and activity centers.
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D.
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).
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E.
Short Line bus service
Short Line bus service is a regional intercity and commuter bus operator in the northeastern United States, providing connections between communities in New York and neighboring states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus network
ⓘ
public transit network ⓘ trolleybus network ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
BART
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Caltrain ⓘ Golden Gate Transit ⓘ San Francisco Muni ⓘ
surface form:
Muni Metro
SamTrans ⓘ San Francisco cable car system ⓘ |
| fareIntegrationWith |
Clipper
ⓘ
surface form:
regional Clipper system
|
| farePolicy | proof-of-payment on selected routes ⓘ |
| governedBy |
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board
|
| hasBrand | Muni ⓘ |
| hasParentAgency | San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ⓘ |
| hasRouteType |
Express routes
ⓘ
Owl routes ⓘ Rapid routes ⓘ local routes ⓘ |
| hasStopType |
bus shelters
ⓘ
curbside bus stops ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| modeOfTransport |
bus
ⓘ
electric trolley coach ⓘ motor coach ⓘ trolleybus ⓘ |
| operatedBy | San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
San Francisco County
ⓘ
surface form:
City and County of San Francisco
|
| partOf |
San Francisco Muni
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Municipal Railway
|
| primaryFunction | surface public transportation ⓘ |
| providesService |
express bus service
ⓘ
local bus service ⓘ owl (late-night) bus service ⓘ rapid bus service ⓘ |
| regionServed |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Bay Area (core city)
|
| safetyProgram | Vision Zero San Francisco ⓘ |
| serves |
San Francisco County
ⓘ
surface form:
City and County of San Francisco
|
| serviceAreaType | urban ⓘ |
| serviceType | fixed-route transit ⓘ |
| ticketingMethod |
off-board payment at selected stops
ⓘ
onboard payment ⓘ |
| usesFareSystem |
Clipper card
ⓘ
Muni mobile ticketing ⓘ |
| usesVehicleFuel |
diesel
ⓘ
hybrid diesel-electric ⓘ |
| usesVehiclePower | overhead electric wires ⓘ |
| website | https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/transit ⓘ |
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: Muni bus network Description of subject: The Muni bus network is San Francisco’s citywide public transit system of buses and trolleybuses that provides comprehensive surface transportation across the city.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Muni Metro and bus network (connecting services)
this entity surface form:
San Francisco Muni bus lines
this entity surface form:
San Francisco trolleybus network
this entity surface form:
Muni buses
this entity surface form:
Muni bus service
this entity surface form:
Muni Metro and bus network (surface connection)
this entity surface form:
Muni trolleybus
this entity surface form:
Muni public transit system
this entity surface form:
San Francisco trolleybus network
subject surface form:
Civic Center/UN Plaza station
this entity surface form:
Muni trolleybus
subject surface form:
Ocean Beach (San Francisco)
this entity surface form:
San Francisco Muni bus lines
this entity surface form:
Muni trolleybus network
this entity surface form:
Muni bus lines
this entity surface form:
Muni 1 California bus line
this entity surface form:
Muni 2 Clement bus line
this entity surface form:
San Francisco Muni bus lines
subject surface form:
Chase Center
this entity surface form:
San Francisco Municipal Railway bus lines
this entity surface form:
Muni buses
this entity surface form:
Muni trolleybuses
this entity surface form:
San Francisco Municipal Railway bus lines
this entity surface form:
Muni bus
this entity surface form:
Muni trolleybus