Metro Transit
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Metro Transit is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area with bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metro Transit canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7891880 — 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 Transit Context triple: [STL Metro, alsoKnownAs, Metro Transit]
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A.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
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B.
Everett Transit
Everett Transit is the public bus transportation agency serving the city of Everett in Washington State.
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C.
Lane Transit District
Lane Transit District is the public transportation agency serving Eugene, Springfield, and surrounding communities in Lane County, Oregon, operating bus and bus rapid transit services.
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D.
SouthWest Transit
SouthWest Transit is a public transportation agency serving suburban communities in the southwest Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota.
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E.
Sound Transit
Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
- 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 Transit Target entity description: Metro Transit is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area with bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
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A.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
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B.
Everett Transit
Everett Transit is the public bus transportation agency serving the city of Everett in Washington State.
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C.
Lane Transit District
Lane Transit District is the public transportation agency serving Eugene, Springfield, and surrounding communities in Lane County, Oregon, operating bus and bus rapid transit services.
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D.
SouthWest Transit
SouthWest Transit is a public transportation agency serving suburban communities in the southwest Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota.
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E.
Sound Transit
Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public transportation agency
ⓘ
transit agency ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fareSystem | Gateway Card ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
accessible transportation
ⓘ
regional mobility ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Board of Commissioners of Bi‑State Development
ⓘ
linked to:
Bi-State Development Agency
|
| hasAbbreviation | Metro ⓘ |
| hasBrand | Metro ⓘ |
| hasBusSystem |
MetroBus (St. Louis)
ⓘ
linked to:
MetroBus
|
| hasDivision |
Metro Call‑A‑Ride
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Call-A-Ride
MetroBus (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
MetroBus
MetroLink (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
MetroLink light rail
|
| hasParatransitSystem |
Metro Call‑A‑Ride
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Call-A-Ride
|
| hasRailSystem |
MetroLink (St. Louis)
ⓘ
linked to:
MetroLink light rail
|
| hasService |
demand‑response paratransit
ⓘ
fixed‑route bus service ⓘ light rail transit ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
St. Louis, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| industry | public transportation ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Bi‑State Development Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Bi-State Development Agency
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | public transit ⓘ |
| operates |
Metro Call‑A‑Ride
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Call-A-Ride
MetroBus (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
MetroBus
MetroLink (St. Louis) ⓘ
linked to:
MetroLink light rail
|
| operatesIn |
Greater St. Louis
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis metropolitan area
|
| parentOrganization |
Bi‑State Development Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Bi-State Development Agency
|
| providesServiceFor |
commuters
ⓘ
people with disabilities ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Illinois
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ |
| serves |
Madison County, Illinois
ⓘ
St. Clair County, Illinois ⓘ St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| serviceAreaType |
suburban area
ⓘ
urban area ⓘ |
| serviceType |
bus
ⓘ
light rail ⓘ paratransit ⓘ |
| ticketingSystem |
mobile ticketing
ⓘ
smart card ⓘ |
| usesVehicleType |
buses
ⓘ
light rail vehicles ⓘ paratransit vans ⓘ |
| 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 Transit Description of subject: Metro Transit is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area with bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.