Mattapan Line
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The Mattapan Line is a light rail trolley service in Boston, Massachusetts, operating as part of the MBTA's Red Line system between Ashmont and Mattapan.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mattapan trolley line | 7 |
| Mattapan Line canonical | 3 |
| Ashmont–Mattapan High-Speed Line tracks | 1 |
| Mattapan Line (MBTA) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639089 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mattapan Line Context triple: [Mattapan Trolley, shortName, Mattapan Line]
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A.
MBTA Green Line E branch
The MBTA Green Line E branch is a light rail line in Boston that runs from downtown through the Back Bay and Longwood Medical Area to Heath Street, serving major hospitals, universities, and residential neighborhoods.
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MBTA Ashmont Branch
The MBTA Ashmont Branch is a rapid transit line of Boston’s Red Line that runs from JFK/UMass station through Dorchester to Ashmont, serving several southern neighborhoods of the city.
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C.
MBTA Green Line D branch
The MBTA Green Line D branch is a light rail line in the Boston metropolitan area that runs between downtown Boston and several western suburbs, including Newton and Riverside.
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D.
MBTA Blue Line
The MBTA Blue Line is a rapid transit line in the Boston metropolitan area that runs primarily along the city’s northeastern corridor, connecting downtown Boston with East Boston, Logan Airport, and Revere.
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E.
MBTA Orange Line
The MBTA Orange Line is a rapid transit line in the Boston metropolitan area that runs roughly north–south, connecting neighborhoods such as Jamaica Plain, Downtown Boston, and Malden.
- 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: Mattapan Line Target entity description: The Mattapan Line is a light rail trolley service in Boston, Massachusetts, operating as part of the MBTA's Red Line system between Ashmont and Mattapan.
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A.
MBTA Green Line E branch
The MBTA Green Line E branch is a light rail line in Boston that runs from downtown through the Back Bay and Longwood Medical Area to Heath Street, serving major hospitals, universities, and residential neighborhoods.
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B.
MBTA Ashmont Branch
The MBTA Ashmont Branch is a rapid transit line of Boston’s Red Line that runs from JFK/UMass station through Dorchester to Ashmont, serving several southern neighborhoods of the city.
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C.
MBTA Green Line D branch
The MBTA Green Line D branch is a light rail line in the Boston metropolitan area that runs between downtown Boston and several western suburbs, including Newton and Riverside.
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D.
MBTA Blue Line
The MBTA Blue Line is a rapid transit line in the Boston metropolitan area that runs primarily along the city’s northeastern corridor, connecting downtown Boston with East Boston, Logan Airport, and Revere.
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E.
MBTA Orange Line
The MBTA Orange Line is a rapid transit line in the Boston metropolitan area that runs roughly north–south, connecting neighborhoods such as Jamaica Plain, Downtown Boston, and Malden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mattapan Line Description of subject: The Mattapan Line is a light rail trolley service in Boston, Massachusetts, operating as part of the MBTA's Red Line system between Ashmont and Mattapan.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Red Line and Mattapan Line
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Red Line and Mattapan Line
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Mattapan yard
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Capen Street
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Capen Street
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