Subway smartcard
E405737
The Subway smartcard is a reusable contactless payment card used to conveniently pay fares on the Glasgow Subway system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Subway smartcard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4015053 — 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: Subway smartcard Context triple: [Cessnock subway station, ticketingSystem, Subway smartcard]
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A.
Metro TAP card
The Metro TAP card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used for contactless payment across the Los Angeles County public transit system.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
SUBE card
The SUBE card is a rechargeable contactless smart card used as an integrated electronic payment system for public transportation across Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina.
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E.
ORCA card
The ORCA card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
- 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: Subway smartcard Target entity description: The Subway smartcard is a reusable contactless payment card used to conveniently pay fares on the Glasgow Subway system.
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A.
Metro TAP card
The Metro TAP card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used for contactless payment across the Los Angeles County public transit system.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
SUBE card
The SUBE card is a rechargeable contactless smart card used as an integrated electronic payment system for public transportation across Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina.
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E.
ORCA card
The ORCA card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
public transport payment card ⓘ |
| benefit |
convenient fare payment
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faster boarding ⓘ reduced need for paper tickets ⓘ |
| category |
Fare collection systems
ⓘ
Smart cards ⓘ Transport in Glasgow ⓘ |
| city | Glasgow ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Glasgow Subway fare system ⓘ |
| medium | plastic card ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport ⓘ |
| paymentMethod |
prepaid balance
ⓘ
stored travel products ⓘ |
| replaces | single-use paper tickets ⓘ |
| reusability | reusable ⓘ |
| sector | public transport ⓘ |
| serves | Glasgow Subway ⓘ |
| targetUsers | Glasgow Subway passengers ⓘ |
| technology | contactless ⓘ |
| topUpMethod |
online top-up
ⓘ
ticket office top-up ⓘ vending machine top-up ⓘ |
| usedFor |
paying fares on the Glasgow Subway
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storing pay-as-you-go credit ⓘ storing season tickets ⓘ storing travel tickets ⓘ |
| validOn | all Glasgow Subway stations ⓘ |
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: Subway smartcard Description of subject: The Subway smartcard is a reusable contactless payment card used to conveniently pay fares on the Glasgow Subway system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.