Expo Line
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The Expo Line is a major automated rapid transit line in Metro Vancouver’s SkyTrain system, connecting downtown Vancouver with key suburban centres in Burnaby, New Westminster, and Surrey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Expo Line canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8302919 — 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: Expo Line Context triple: [Lougheed Town Centre, transitServedBy, Expo Line]
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A.
Metro C Line
The Metro C Line is a light rail line in Los Angeles County that runs east–west, connecting Norwalk to Redondo Beach and serving key transit hubs including Los Angeles International Airport via shuttle.
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B.
Rio Metro Regional Transit District
Rio Metro Regional Transit District is a public transportation agency in central New Mexico that oversees regional commuter rail and bus services, including the New Mexico Rail Runner Express.
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C.
Metro B Line
The Metro B Line is a heavy rail subway line in Los Angeles that runs through central and Hollywood areas as part of the LA Metro Rail system.
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D.
METRORail Red Line
The METRORail Red Line is a light rail line in Houston, Texas, running through key central areas including downtown and the Museum District.
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E.
Metro E Line
The Metro E Line is a light rail line in Los Angeles that runs between East Los Angeles and Santa Monica, providing a major east–west transit corridor across the city.
- 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: Expo Line Target entity description: The Expo Line is a major automated rapid transit line in Metro Vancouver’s SkyTrain system, connecting downtown Vancouver with key suburban centres in Burnaby, New Westminster, and Surrey.
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A.
Metro C Line
The Metro C Line is a light rail line in Los Angeles County that runs east–west, connecting Norwalk to Redondo Beach and serving key transit hubs including Los Angeles International Airport via shuttle.
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B.
Rio Metro Regional Transit District
Rio Metro Regional Transit District is a public transportation agency in central New Mexico that oversees regional commuter rail and bus services, including the New Mexico Rail Runner Express.
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C.
Metro B Line
The Metro B Line is a heavy rail subway line in Los Angeles that runs through central and Hollywood areas as part of the LA Metro Rail system.
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D.
METRORail Red Line
The METRORail Red Line is a light rail line in Houston, Texas, running through key central areas including downtown and the Museum District.
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E.
Metro E Line
The Metro E Line is a light rail line in Los Angeles that runs between East Los Angeles and Santa Monica, providing a major east–west transit corridor across the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rapid transit line ⓘ |
| character | fully grade-separated ⓘ |
| connects |
Burnaby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Westminster NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
Canada Line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Millennium Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electrification | 750 V DC third rail ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Compass Card NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fareZones | multiple fare zones ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Production Way–University branch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Surrey branch ⓘ |
| hasStation |
Burrard station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia station NERFINISHED ⓘ Commercial–Broadway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Gateway station ⓘ Granville station NERFINISHED ⓘ King George station NERFINISHED ⓘ Main Street–Science World station NERFINISHED ⓘ Metrotown station NERFINISHED ⓘ New Westminster station NERFINISHED ⓘ Production Way–University station NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Road station NERFINISHED ⓘ Stadium–Chinatown station NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrey Central station NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterfront station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Metro Vancouver, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Metro Vancouver
|
| notableEvent | original SkyTrain line for Expo 86 ⓘ |
| openedFor | Expo 86 world's fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1985-12-11 ⓘ |
| operator | TransLink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | TransLink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
SkyTrain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
TransLink rapid transit network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Metro Vancouver suburbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesDowntown | Downtown Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servicePattern | frequent all-day service ⓘ |
| serviceType | automated rapid transit ⓘ |
| signalling | automatic train control ⓘ |
| system | SkyTrain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| technology | linear induction motor ⓘ |
| terminus |
King George station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Production Way–University station NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterfront station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
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: Expo Line Description of subject: The Expo Line is a major automated rapid transit line in Metro Vancouver’s SkyTrain system, connecting downtown Vancouver with key suburban centres in Burnaby, New Westminster, and Surrey.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Stadium–Chinatown station