MAX
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MAX is the Portland metropolitan area’s light rail transit system, operated by TriMet and serving multiple lines across the region.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4192797 — 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: MAX Context triple: [MAX Red Line toward Beaverton Transit Center, brand, MAX]
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MAX
MAX is a family of low-cost, high-density CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) products developed by Altera for implementing customizable digital logic functions.
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MAX
MAX is a Marvel Comics imprint created for mature readers, featuring darker, more explicit stories often starring grittier versions of established characters.
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MAXI
MAXI is an X-ray astronomy mission that continuously monitors the sky for high-energy phenomena such as black hole outbursts, neutron star activity, and other transient cosmic events.
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Max
Max is a subscription-based streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery that offers a wide range of films, series, and original programming.
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Max
Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
- 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: MAX Target entity description: MAX is the Portland metropolitan area’s light rail transit system, operated by TriMet and serving multiple lines across the region.
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A.
MAX
MAX is a family of low-cost, high-density CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) products developed by Altera for implementing customizable digital logic functions.
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B.
MAX
MAX is a Marvel Comics imprint created for mature readers, featuring darker, more explicit stories often starring grittier versions of established characters.
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C.
MAXI
MAXI is an X-ray astronomy mission that continuously monitors the sky for high-energy phenomena such as black hole outbursts, neutron star activity, and other transient cosmic events.
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D.
Max
Max is a subscription-based streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery that offers a wide range of films, series, and original programming.
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E.
Max
Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: MAX Description of subject: MAX is the Portland metropolitan area’s light rail transit system, operated by TriMet and serving multiple lines across the region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
MAX
linked to: MAX