Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA)
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Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA) is the primary public bus transit agency serving residents and visitors in and around Jackson, Michigan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T691313 — 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: Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA) Context triple: [Jackson, Michigan, hasPublicTransit, Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA)]
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A.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is the primary public transportation agency serving the Atlanta metropolitan area, operating a network of heavy rail, bus, and paratransit services.
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B.
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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C.
Maryland Transit Administration
The Maryland Transit Administration is the state agency responsible for operating and overseeing public transportation services in Maryland, including bus, rail, and commuter transit systems.
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D.
Huntington Area Rapid Transit
Huntington Area Rapid Transit is the local bus system serving the town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York.
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E.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit is the primary public bus system serving Ithaca and the surrounding Tompkins County region in New York.
- 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: Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA) Target entity description: Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA) is the primary public bus transit agency serving residents and visitors in and around Jackson, Michigan.
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A.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is the primary public transportation agency serving the Atlanta metropolitan area, operating a network of heavy rail, bus, and paratransit services.
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B.
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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C.
Maryland Transit Administration
The Maryland Transit Administration is the state agency responsible for operating and overseeing public transportation services in Maryland, including bus, rail, and commuter transit systems.
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D.
Huntington Area Rapid Transit
Huntington Area Rapid Transit is the local bus system serving the town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York.
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E.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit is the primary public bus system serving Ithaca and the surrounding Tompkins County region in New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus transit agency
ⓘ
public transit agency ⓘ transport organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | JATA ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fareSystem | paid public transit fares ⓘ |
| governingBody | board of directors of Jackson Area Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Jackson Area Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.mijata.org/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Jackson, Michigan ⓘ |
| industry | public transportation ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Jackson, Michigan ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
City of Jackson (Michigan)
ⓘ
linked to:
Jackson, Michigan
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| operatesInJurisdiction | Jackson, Michigan ⓘ |
| primaryService | local bus service in Jackson, Michigan ⓘ |
| providesServiceFor |
residents of Jackson, Michigan
ⓘ
visitors to Jackson, Michigan ⓘ |
| regionServed |
City of Jackson
ⓘ
linked to:
Jackson, Mississippi
surrounding areas of Jackson, Michigan ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serves |
Jackson County, Michigan
ⓘ
Jackson, Michigan ⓘ |
| serviceType |
paratransit service
ⓘ
public bus transit ⓘ |
| shortName | JATA ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| transportationMode |
demand‑response transit
ⓘ
fixed‑route bus ⓘ |
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: Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA) Description of subject: Jackson Area Transportation Authority (JATA) is the primary public bus transit agency serving residents and visitors in and around Jackson, Michigan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.