Transdev (historical and significant shareholding)
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Transdev is a major international public transport operator, historically backed by significant shareholding from Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Transdev | 1 |
| Transdev (historical and significant shareholding) canonical | 1 |
| Transdev Germany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5160798 — 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: Transdev (historical and significant shareholding) Context triple: [Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, hasSubsidiary, Transdev (historical and significant shareholding)]
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A.
Go-Ahead Group
Go-Ahead Group is a major British public transport operator that runs bus and rail services in the UK and internationally.
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B.
Hearst Transportation
Hearst Transportation is a business division of Hearst Communications focused on providing information, data, and services for the transportation and automotive industries.
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C.
Transport Holding Company
The Transport Holding Company was a British state-owned enterprise that managed and operated various transport-related businesses, including bus companies and road haulage, during the mid-20th century.
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D.
First Transit
First Transit is a North American public transportation management and contracting company that operates and maintains bus, paratransit, shuttle, and other transit services for municipalities and organizations.
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E.
Detroit Transportation Corporation
Detroit Transportation Corporation is the public agency that owns and operates Detroit's downtown People Mover automated transit system.
- 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: Transdev (historical and significant shareholding) Target entity description: Transdev is a major international public transport operator, historically backed by significant shareholding from Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
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A.
Go-Ahead Group
Go-Ahead Group is a major British public transport operator that runs bus and rail services in the UK and internationally.
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B.
Hearst Transportation
Hearst Transportation is a business division of Hearst Communications focused on providing information, data, and services for the transportation and automotive industries.
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C.
Transport Holding Company
The Transport Holding Company was a British state-owned enterprise that managed and operated various transport-related businesses, including bus companies and road haulage, during the mid-20th century.
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D.
First Transit
First Transit is a North American public transportation management and contracting company that operates and maintains bus, paratransit, shuttle, and other transit services for municipalities and organizations.
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E.
Detroit Transportation Corporation
Detroit Transportation Corporation is the public agency that owns and operates Detroit's downtown People Mover automated transit system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational company
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public transport operator ⓘ |
| businessModel | public service delegation contracts ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ France NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ Saudi Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
multimodal transport integration
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sustainable mobility ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | Paris, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName | Compagnie générale française de transports et d'entreprises NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1954 ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviationMeaning | Transport Développement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Issy-les-Moulineaux, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalMajorShareholder | Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | public transport ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| legalForm | Société anonyme ⓘ |
| majorPublicShareholder | Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableShareholdingCharacteristic | historically significant public-sector ownership ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
airport shuttle services
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bus transport ⓘ ferry transport ⓘ interurban public transport ⓘ light rail operations ⓘ paratransit and on-demand transport ⓘ rail transport ⓘ tramway operations ⓘ urban public transport ⓘ |
| operatesMode |
bus
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commuter rail ⓘ ferries ⓘ metro ⓘ tram ⓘ |
| ownsBrand | Transdev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shareholder | Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | Transdev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specializesIn | operation of public transport networks under contract ⓘ |
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: Transdev (historical and significant shareholding) Description of subject: Transdev is a major international public transport operator, historically backed by significant shareholding from Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
→
hasSubsidiary
→
Transdev (historical and significant shareholding)
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this entity surface form:
Transdev Germany
this entity surface form:
Transdev