ORCA card
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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.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ORCA card canonical | 25 |
| ORCA LIFT card | 2 |
| ORCA Business Passport card | 1 |
| ORCA RRFP card | 1 |
| ORCA adult card | 1 |
| ORCA card (regional transit smart card) | 1 |
| ORCA card system | 1 |
| adult ORCA card | 1 |
| youth ORCA card | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T413134 — 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: ORCA card Context triple: [Sound Transit Link light rail, fareSystem, ORCA card]
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A.
TAP card
The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
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B.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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C.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: ORCA card Target entity description: 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.
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A.
TAP card
The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
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B.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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C.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
public transit fare card ⓘ stored-value card ⓘ |
| acronymFor | One Regional Card for All ⓘ |
| currency |
US dollar
ⓘ
surface form:
United States dollar
|
| fareSystemType | regional integrated fare system ⓘ |
| fullName | One Regional Card for All ⓘ |
| governingBody |
ORCA
ⓘ
surface form:
ORCA Joint Board
|
| hasFeature |
contactless tap-to-pay
ⓘ
reloadable ⓘ reusable ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
ORCA card
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ORCA Business Passport card
ORCA card self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ORCA LIFT card
ORCA card self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
adult ORCA card
disability ORCA card ⓘ senior ORCA card ⓘ ORCA card self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
youth ORCA card
|
| introduced | 2009-04-20 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Community Transit
ⓘ
Everett Transit ⓘ King County Metro ⓘ Kitsap Transit ⓘ Pierce Transit ⓘ Sound Transit ⓘ Washington State Ferries ⓘ |
| operator |
ORCA
ⓘ
surface form:
ORCA Joint Board
|
| paymentMethod |
prepaid balance
ⓘ
transit passes ⓘ |
| regionServed | Seattle metropolitan area ⓘ |
| replaced |
FlexPass
ⓘ
PugetPass ⓘ |
| supportsMedium |
e-purse
ⓘ
monthly passes ⓘ regional day passes ⓘ stored value ⓘ |
| technologyType | contactless smart card technology ⓘ |
| usedFor | paying public transit fares ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| usedInRegion | Puget Sound region ⓘ |
| usedInState | Washington ⓘ |
| validOn |
buses
ⓘ
commuter rail ⓘ ferries ⓘ light rail ⓘ some paratransit services ⓘ streetcars ⓘ vanpools ⓘ |
| website | https://www.myorca.com/ ⓘ |
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: ORCA card Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ORCA card (regional transit smart card)
this entity surface form:
adult ORCA card
this entity surface form:
youth ORCA card
this entity surface form:
ORCA LIFT card
this entity surface form:
ORCA Business Passport card
this entity surface form:
ORCA adult card
this entity surface form:
ORCA LIFT card
this entity surface form:
ORCA RRFP card
subject surface form:
Sound Transit
subject surface form:
King County Metro
this entity surface form:
ORCA card system