Q
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The Q is a New York City Subway service that runs along the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, providing crosstown and interborough transit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Q canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T628266 — 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: Q Context triple: [Times Square–42nd Street subway station, servedByService, Q]
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A.
QR
QR is the two-letter IATA airline designator assigned to Qatar Airways, the flag carrier of Qatar.
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B.
QA
QA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Qatar for international standardization and identification.
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C.
QF
QF is the IATA airline designator used for Qantas, the flag carrier of Australia.
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D.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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E.
QQQ
QQQ is a popular exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index, providing exposure to many of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock market.
- 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: Q Target entity description: The Q is a New York City Subway service that runs along the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, providing crosstown and interborough transit.
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A.
QR
QR is the two-letter IATA airline designator assigned to Qatar Airways, the flag carrier of Qatar.
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B.
QA
QA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Qatar for international standardization and identification.
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C.
QF
QF is the IATA airline designator used for Qantas, the flag carrier of Australia.
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D.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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E.
QQQ
QQQ is a popular exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index, providing exposure to many of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock market.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York City Subway service
ⓘ
rapid transit service ⓘ |
| accessibility | serves multiple ADA-accessible stations ⓘ |
| boroughServed |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ Queens ⓘ |
| category |
Brighton Line services
ⓘ
surface form:
BMT Brighton Line services
BMT Broadway Line ⓘ
surface form:
BMT Broadway Line services
New York City Subway ⓘ
surface form:
New York City Subway services
|
| connectsWith |
BMT Brighton Line
ⓘ
BMT Broadway Line ⓘ IND Sixth Avenue Line ⓘ Eastern Parkway Line ⓘ
surface form:
IRT Eastern Parkway Line (via transfer)
other New York City Subway services (via transfer) ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| division | BMT Division ⓘ |
| electrification | 600 V DC third rail ⓘ |
| fareMedium |
MetroCard
ⓘ
OMNY ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare system ⓘ |
| governingBody | Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| historicalPredecessor | earlier BMT services on Brighton and Broadway lines ⓘ |
| lineUsed |
BMT Brighton Line
ⓘ
BMT Broadway Line ⓘ IND Sixth Avenue Line to BMT Nassau Street Line ⓘ
surface form:
IND Sixth Avenue Line (Queens connector portion)
|
| locale | New York City ⓘ |
| networkRole | core trunk service in the BMT Broadway corridor ⓘ |
| notableFunction | provides crosstown and interborough transit between Manhattan and Brooklyn ⓘ |
| operator | New York City Transit Authority ⓘ |
| rollingStock |
R160 subway cars
ⓘ
surface form:
R160 subway cars (historical/transition)
R46 subway cars ⓘ
surface form:
R46 subway cars (historical)
R68 subway car ⓘ
surface form:
R68 subway cars (historical)
|
| routeColorFamily | Broadway Line services ⓘ |
| safetySystem | wayside signals ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Central Brooklyn
ⓘ
Downtown Brooklyn ⓘ Midtown Manhattan ⓘ South Brooklyn ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Brooklyn
|
| serviceColor | yellow ⓘ |
| serviceFrequency | operates at all times, with varying headways by time of day ⓘ |
| servicePattern |
local and express service on Brighton Line in Brooklyn
ⓘ
trunk service on BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan ⓘ |
| serviceType | 24-hour service ⓘ |
| symbolLetter | Q ⓘ |
| symbolShape | circle ⓘ |
| system | New York City Subway ⓘ |
| ticketing | proof-of-payment not required; fare control at station entrances ⓘ |
| trackGauge | standard gauge (1,435 mm) ⓘ |
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: Q Description of subject: The Q is a New York City Subway service that runs along the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, providing crosstown and interborough transit.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Astoria Line
subject surface form:
Q (New York City Subway service)