Q18 bus
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The Q18 bus is a New York City bus route in Queens that connects neighborhoods including Astoria and Maspeth, providing local transit service through the Woodside area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Q18 bus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5725282 — 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: Q18 bus Context triple: [Woodside, hasTransferTo, Q18 bus]
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A.
M15 bus
The M15 bus is a New York City Transit route that runs primarily along First and Second Avenues in Manhattan, connecting Lower Manhattan with the Upper East Side and East Harlem.
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B.
M11 bus
The M11 bus is a New York City bus route that runs primarily along Manhattan’s West Side, connecting the Upper West Side with Lower Manhattan.
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C.
Bus 174
Bus 174 is a Brazilian documentary film that examines the 2000 Rio de Janeiro bus hijacking and its social and political implications.
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D.
M104 bus
The M104 bus is a New York City bus route that runs primarily along Broadway and 42nd Street in Manhattan, connecting the Upper West Side with Midtown.
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E.
B41 bus route
The B41 bus route is a major New York City bus line in Brooklyn that runs primarily along Flatbush Avenue, connecting Downtown Brooklyn with neighborhoods such as Flatbush and Marine 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: Q18 bus Target entity description: The Q18 bus is a New York City bus route in Queens that connects neighborhoods including Astoria and Maspeth, providing local transit service through the Woodside area.
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A.
M15 bus
The M15 bus is a New York City Transit route that runs primarily along First and Second Avenues in Manhattan, connecting Lower Manhattan with the Upper East Side and East Harlem.
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B.
M11 bus
The M11 bus is a New York City bus route that runs primarily along Manhattan’s West Side, connecting the Upper West Side with Lower Manhattan.
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C.
Bus 174
Bus 174 is a Brazilian documentary film that examines the 2000 Rio de Janeiro bus hijacking and its social and political implications.
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D.
M104 bus
The M104 bus is a New York City bus route that runs primarily along Broadway and 42nd Street in Manhattan, connecting the Upper West Side with Midtown.
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E.
B41 bus route
The B41 bus route is a major New York City bus line in Brooklyn that runs primarily along Flatbush Avenue, connecting Downtown Brooklyn with neighborhoods such as Flatbush and Marine Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York City bus route
ⓘ
local bus route ⓘ |
| borough | Queens ⓘ |
| connectsNeighborhood |
Astoria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maspeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fareSystem | MTA fare system ⓘ |
| governingBody | Metropolitan Transportation Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRouteDesignation | Q18 ⓘ |
| hasService | daily service ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
Queens ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
MTA New York City Bus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork | MTA Regional Bus Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Woodside NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paymentMethod |
MetroCard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OMNY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransportSystem | New York City Bus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Northwestern Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | Q18 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Astoria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maspeth NERFINISHED ⓘ Woodside NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType | local ⓘ |
| transitType | surface bus ⓘ |
| usedFor | public transit ⓘ |
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: Q18 bus Description of subject: The Q18 bus is a New York City bus route in Queens that connects neighborhoods including Astoria and Maspeth, providing local transit service through the Woodside area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.