Quad Cities MetroLINK
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Quad Cities MetroLINK is the public transit agency serving the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa with fixed-route buses and related transportation services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quad Cities MetroLINK canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7047777 — 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: Quad Cities MetroLINK Context triple: [Moline, Illinois, hasPublicTransit, Quad Cities MetroLINK]
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A.
Sangamon Mass Transit District
Sangamon Mass Transit District is the primary public bus transportation agency serving Springfield and surrounding areas in Sangamon County, Illinois.
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B.
Madison Metro
Madison Metro is the primary public bus transit system serving the city of Madison, Wisconsin and its surrounding communities.
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C.
Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District
The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District is a public transit agency that oversees and funds commuter rail service in northern Indiana, including operations of the South Shore Line connecting the region to Chicago.
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D.
Metra Heritage Corridor
The Metra Heritage Corridor is a commuter rail line in the Chicago metropolitan area that provides weekday service between Chicago Union Station and Joliet, Illinois, largely following the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal corridor.
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E.
Metra
Metra is the commuter rail system serving the Chicago metropolitan area, operating extensive routes that connect the city with its surrounding suburbs.
- 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: Quad Cities MetroLINK Target entity description: Quad Cities MetroLINK is the public transit agency serving the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa with fixed-route buses and related transportation services.
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A.
Sangamon Mass Transit District
Sangamon Mass Transit District is the primary public bus transportation agency serving Springfield and surrounding areas in Sangamon County, Illinois.
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B.
Madison Metro
Madison Metro is the primary public bus transit system serving the city of Madison, Wisconsin and its surrounding communities.
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C.
Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District
The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District is a public transit agency that oversees and funds commuter rail service in northern Indiana, including operations of the South Shore Line connecting the region to Chicago.
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D.
Metra Heritage Corridor
The Metra Heritage Corridor is a commuter rail line in the Chicago metropolitan area that provides weekday service between Chicago Union Station and Joliet, Illinois, largely following the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal corridor.
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E.
Metra
Metra is the commuter rail system serving the Chicago metropolitan area, operating extensive routes that connect the city with its surrounding suburbs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus transit system
ⓘ
public transit agency ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
provide mobility options
ⓘ
reduce traffic congestion ⓘ support regional economic development ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareMedium |
electronic fare card
ⓘ
paper pass ⓘ |
| fareSystem | fixed-fare ⓘ |
| focusesOn | public transportation ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
federal transit funding
ⓘ
local taxes ⓘ state funding ⓘ |
| governingBody | Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBrandName | MetroLINK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasServiceBrand |
Channel Cat Water Taxi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.gogreenmetro.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Moline, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalForm | metropolitan mass transit district ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operates | Channel Cat Water Taxi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesInCity |
Bettendorf, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carbon Cliff, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Colona, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Davenport, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ East Moline, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Hampton, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Milan, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Moline, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Island, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Silvis, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesInMetropolitanArea | Davenport–Moline–Rock Island metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesServiceFor |
commuters
ⓘ
people with disabilities ⓘ seniors ⓘ students ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Quad Cities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesState |
Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
demand-response transportation
ⓘ
fixed-route bus service ⓘ paratransit service ⓘ water taxi service ⓘ |
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: Quad Cities MetroLINK Description of subject: Quad Cities MetroLINK is the public transit agency serving the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa with fixed-route buses and related transportation services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.