Civic Center station (VTA)
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Civic Center station (VTA) is a light rail stop in downtown San Jose, California, serving the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s network near government and civic buildings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Civic Center station (VTA) canonical | 1 |
| VTA light rail Convention Center station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5164340 — 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: Civic Center station (VTA) Context triple: [Downtown San Jose stations, hasStation, Civic Center station (VTA)]
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A.
Santa Clara station (VTA)
Santa Clara station (VTA) is a light rail stop in downtown San Jose, California, served by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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B.
Eastridge Transit Center
Eastridge Transit Center is a major public transportation hub in San Jose, California, serving as a key connection point for numerous Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus routes.
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C.
Las Colinas Urban Center station
Las Colinas Urban Center station is a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail and bus station serving the Las Colinas business and residential district in Irving, Texas.
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D.
Addison Transit Center
Addison Transit Center is a major Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) bus facility in Addison, Texas, serving as a key transfer point for local and regional bus routes.
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E.
Civic Center/Grand Park station
Civic Center/Grand Park station is an underground rapid transit station in downtown Los Angeles serving the Metro B Line and providing access to nearby government buildings and Grand Park.
- 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: Civic Center station (VTA) Target entity description: Civic Center station (VTA) is a light rail stop in downtown San Jose, California, serving the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s network near government and civic buildings.
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A.
Santa Clara station (VTA)
Santa Clara station (VTA) is a light rail stop in downtown San Jose, California, served by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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B.
Eastridge Transit Center
Eastridge Transit Center is a major public transportation hub in San Jose, California, serving as a key connection point for numerous Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus routes.
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C.
Las Colinas Urban Center station
Las Colinas Urban Center station is a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail and bus station serving the Las Colinas business and residential district in Irving, Texas.
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D.
Addison Transit Center
Addison Transit Center is a major Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) bus facility in Addison, Texas, serving as a key transfer point for local and regional bus routes.
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E.
Civic Center/Grand Park station
Civic Center/Grand Park station is an underground rapid transit station in downtown Los Angeles serving the Metro B Line and providing access to nearby government buildings and Grand Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
light rail station
ⓘ
public transit station ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | government and civic buildings in San Jose ⓘ |
| category |
Railway stations in San Jose, California
ⓘ
VTA light rail stations ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fareSystem | VTA fare system ⓘ |
| hasServiceType | light rail ⓘ |
| isInMetropolitanArea | San Jose metropolitan area ⓘ |
| isInUrbanArea | downtown San Jose ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Jose, California ⓘ Santa Clara County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| operator | Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| partOf |
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority network
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
VTA light rail ⓘ |
| platformType | light rail platform ⓘ |
| publicTransitSystem |
VTA Light Rail
ⓘ
linked to:
VTA light rail
|
| railGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| serves |
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail system
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
civic buildings in San Jose ⓘ downtown San Jose ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown San Jose
government buildings in San Jose ⓘ |
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: Civic Center station (VTA) Description of subject: Civic Center station (VTA) is a light rail stop in downtown San Jose, California, serving the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s network near government and civic buildings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Civic Center station (VTA)