Metro
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Metro is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area, operating bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metro canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5495151 — 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 Context triple: [Metro Transit (St. Louis), alsoKnownAs, Metro]
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A.
Metro
Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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B.
Metro
Metro is the primary public transportation agency serving Los Angeles County, operating buses, light rail, subway, and other transit services across the region.
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C.
Metro
"Metro" is a Russian disaster thriller film featuring Svetlana Khodchenkova in a prominent role, centered on a catastrophic flood in the Moscow subway system.
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D.
Metro
Metro is a multinational wholesale and food retail company headquartered in Germany, operating cash-and-carry stores and serving professional customers worldwide.
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E.
Metro
Metro is the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Metropolitan Division, known for handling specialized tactical operations, crowd control, and high-risk incidents.
- 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 Target entity description: Metro is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area, operating bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
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A.
Metro
Metro is the primary public transportation agency serving Los Angeles County, operating buses, light rail, subway, and other transit services across the region.
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B.
Metro
Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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C.
Metro
Metro is the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Metropolitan Division, known for handling specialized tactical operations, crowd control, and high-risk incidents.
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D.
Metro
Metro is a multinational wholesale and food retail company headquartered in Germany, operating cash-and-carry stores and serving professional customers worldwide.
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E.
Metro
Metro is the professional alias of Metro Boomin, a prominent American record producer and DJ known for shaping the sound of modern hip-hop and trap music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public transportation agency
ⓘ
transit authority ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bi‑State Transit
ⓘ
Metro ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fareSystem | proof‑of‑payment ⓘ |
| goal | provide public transportation in the St. Louis region ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Board of Commissioners of Bi‑State Development
ⓘ
linked to:
Bi-State Development Agency
|
| hasFeature |
accessible vehicles
ⓘ
bike racks on buses ⓘ park‑and‑ride lots ⓘ |
| hasService |
commuter rail‑like light rail service
ⓘ
demand‑response paratransit service ⓘ fixed‑route bus service ⓘ |
| hasSubOrganization |
Metro Call‑A‑Ride
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Call-A-Ride
MetroBus (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis MetroBus
MetroLink (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
MetroLink light rail
|
| headquartersLocation |
St. Louis, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| industry | mass transit ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Bi‑State Development Agency of the Missouri‑Illinois Metropolitan District
ⓘ
linked to:
Bi-State Development Agency
|
| modeOfTransport |
rail transport
ⓘ
road transport ⓘ |
| operates |
Metro Call‑A‑Ride
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Call-A-Ride
MetroBus (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis MetroBus
MetroLink (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
MetroLink light rail
|
| operatesInTimePeriod | daily ⓘ |
| owns |
MetroLink Blue Line
ⓘ
linked to:
Blue Line (St. Louis MetroLink)
MetroLink Red Line ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Bi‑State Development Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Bi-State Development Agency
|
| providesAccessibilityService | ADA paratransit ⓘ |
| region |
Illinois
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ |
| sector | public transportation ⓘ |
| serves |
Madison County, Illinois
ⓘ
St. Clair County, Illinois ⓘ St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| serviceAreaCharacteristic | bi‑state metropolitan region ⓘ |
| serviceType |
bus
ⓘ
light rail ⓘ paratransit ⓘ |
| typeOfRailSystem | light rail ⓘ |
| usesTicketMedium |
electronic fare media
ⓘ
paper tickets ⓘ passes ⓘ |
| website | https://www.metrostlouis.org/ ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Metro is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area, operating bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.