Metro Silver Line
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The Metro Silver Line is a former branding used for certain Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus services, particularly those operating as part of the region’s bus rapid transit network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Metro Silver Line canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3653864 — 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: Metro Silver Line Context triple: [Metro Silver Line (historical bus branding), shortName, Metro Silver Line]
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A.
Silver Line
The Silver Line is a rapid transit route in the Washington Metro system that serves northern Virginia suburbs, including Tysons and Reston, and connects them to Washington, D.C.
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B.
Silver Line
The Silver Line is a bus rapid transit service in Boston, Massachusetts, operated by the MBTA and serving key corridors including the Seaport District and Logan Airport.
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C.
Blue Line (Washington Metro)
The Blue Line is one of the primary rapid transit lines of the Washington Metro system, running through downtown Washington, D.C., and connecting key locations in Virginia and Maryland.
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D.
Orange Line (Washington Metro)
The Orange Line of the Washington Metro is a rapid transit line in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that runs generally east–west, connecting suburbs in Virginia and Maryland with downtown Washington.
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E.
Washington Metro Green Line
The Washington Metro Green Line is a rapid transit line in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that runs north–south through the city and into surrounding suburbs, including Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- 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: Metro Silver Line Target entity description: The Metro Silver Line is a former branding used for certain Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus services, particularly those operating as part of the region’s bus rapid transit network.
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A.
Silver Line
The Silver Line is a rapid transit route in the Washington Metro system that serves northern Virginia suburbs, including Tysons and Reston, and connects them to Washington, D.C.
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B.
Silver Line
The Silver Line is a bus rapid transit service in Boston, Massachusetts, operated by the MBTA and serving key corridors including the Seaport District and Logan Airport.
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C.
Blue Line (Washington Metro)
The Blue Line is one of the primary rapid transit lines of the Washington Metro system, running through downtown Washington, D.C., and connecting key locations in Virginia and Maryland.
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D.
Orange Line (Washington Metro)
The Orange Line of the Washington Metro is a rapid transit line in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that runs generally east–west, connecting suburbs in Virginia and Maryland with downtown Washington.
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E.
Washington Metro Green Line
The Washington Metro Green Line is a rapid transit line in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that runs north–south through the city and into surrounding suburbs, including Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus rapid transit service
ⓘ
public transport route brand ⓘ |
| agencyAbbreviation | LACMTA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brandingStatus | retired ⓘ |
| brandingUsedFor |
bus routes on El Monte Busway
ⓘ
bus routes on Harbor Transitway ⓘ |
| color | silver ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| fareCollection | proof-of-payment ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Metro fare system ⓘ |
| formerBrandingFor | Metro J Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus rapid transit network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles Metro Bus system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransportSystem | Los Angeles Metro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southern California ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Metro J Line branding ⓘ |
| servedCorridor |
Interstate 10 El Monte Busway corridor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 110 Harbor Transitway corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCity | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Los Angeles County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servicePattern | all-day frequent service ⓘ |
| serviceType |
bus rapid transit
ⓘ
limited-stop bus service ⓘ |
| shortName | Silver Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transitMode | bus ⓘ |
| usesInfrastructure |
El Monte Busway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harbor Transitway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Metro Silver Line Description of subject: The Metro Silver Line is a former branding used for certain Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus services, particularly those operating as part of the region’s bus rapid transit network.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.