Clipper
E123351
Clipper is a reloadable contactless smart card system used for paying fares on public transit across the San Francisco Bay Area.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clipper canonical | 12 |
| regional Clipper system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1074797 — 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: Clipper Context triple: [San Francisco Muni, usesTicketingSystem, Clipper]
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A.
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark is a famous 19th-century British clipper ship preserved as a museum ship and historic landmark in London.
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B.
Seabreeze
Seabreeze was a former neighboring city to Daytona Beach, Florida, that was eventually incorporated into the larger Daytona Beach municipality.
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C.
Carris
Carris is the main public transport company in Lisbon, Portugal, operating the city's buses, trams, and certain historic lifts.
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D.
Argosy
Argosy is a British pulp magazine best known for publishing adventure and genre fiction during the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Klain
Klain is the surname of Ron Klain, an American attorney and political operative who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
- 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: Clipper Target entity description: Clipper is a reloadable contactless smart card system used for paying fares on public transit across the San Francisco Bay Area.
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A.
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark is a famous 19th-century British clipper ship preserved as a museum ship and historic landmark in London.
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B.
Seabreeze
Seabreeze was a former neighboring city to Daytona Beach, Florida, that was eventually incorporated into the larger Daytona Beach municipality.
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C.
Carris
Carris is the main public transport company in Lisbon, Portugal, operating the city's buses, trams, and certain historic lifts.
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D.
Argosy
Argosy is a British pulp magazine best known for publishing adventure and genre fiction during the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Klain
Klain is the surname of Ron Klain, an American attorney and political operative who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Clipper Description of subject: Clipper is a reloadable contactless smart card system used for paying fares on public transit across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.