Seattle Transit System
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The Seattle Transit System was the former public transportation agency serving the Seattle area before being succeeded by King County Metro.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seattle Transit System canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10088589 — 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: Seattle Transit System Context triple: [King County Metro, precededBy, Seattle Transit System]
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A.
Portland METRO bus system
The Portland METRO bus system is the primary public transit network serving the Greater Portland, Maine area, providing fixed-route bus service connecting downtown, surrounding neighborhoods, and nearby communities.
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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.
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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D.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area with bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
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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: Seattle Transit System Target entity description: The Seattle Transit System was the former public transportation agency serving the Seattle area before being succeeded by King County Metro.
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A.
Portland METRO bus system
The Portland METRO bus system is the primary public transit network serving the Greater Portland, Maine area, providing fixed-route bus service connecting downtown, surrounding neighborhoods, and nearby communities.
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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.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the public transportation agency serving the St. Louis metropolitan area with bus, light rail, and paratransit services.
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D.
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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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 (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | public transportation agency ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fareSystem | paid transit fares ⓘ |
| industry | public transportation ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Seattle ⓘ |
| operated | bus transit ⓘ |
| operatedFor | general public ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Washington (state)
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| predecessorOf | King County Metro ⓘ |
| publicAgency | true ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| replacedBy | King County Metro ⓘ |
| serves |
Seattle
ⓘ
Seattle metropolitan area ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
King County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
King County, Washington, United States
|
| serviceType |
commuter bus service
ⓘ
local bus service ⓘ |
| successor | King County Metro ⓘ |
| transportationType | surface transit ⓘ |
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: Seattle Transit System Description of subject: The Seattle Transit System was the former public transportation agency serving the Seattle area before being succeeded by King County Metro.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
King County Metro services