Dow Jones Transportation Average
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The Dow Jones Transportation Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major transportation companies, including railroads, airlines, and trucking firms.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dow Jones Transportation Average canonical | 17 |
| Dow Jones Railroad Average | 1 |
| Dow Jones Transport Average | 1 |
| Dow Jones Transports | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1256373 — 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: Dow Jones Transportation Average Context triple: [UNP, belongsToIndex, Dow Jones Transportation Average]
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A.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a major U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of 30 large, publicly traded blue-chip companies.
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B.
Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index
The Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of major U.S.-listed automobile manufacturing companies.
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C.
Nasdaq Composite Index
The Nasdaq Composite Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of all common stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, with a heavy weighting toward technology and growth-oriented companies.
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D.
NYSE Composite
The NYSE Composite is a stock market index that tracks the performance of all common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, providing a broad measure of the exchange’s overall market activity.
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E.
S&P 500 Index
The S&P 500 Index is a major U.S. stock market benchmark that tracks the performance of 500 large publicly traded companies listed on American exchanges.
- 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: Dow Jones Transportation Average Target entity description: The Dow Jones Transportation Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major transportation companies, including railroads, airlines, and trucking firms.
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A.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a major U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of 30 large, publicly traded blue-chip companies.
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B.
Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index
The Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of major U.S.-listed automobile manufacturing companies.
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C.
Nasdaq Composite Index
The Nasdaq Composite Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of all common stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, with a heavy weighting toward technology and growth-oriented companies.
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D.
NYSE Composite
The NYSE Composite is a stock market index that tracks the performance of all common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, providing a broad measure of the exchange’s overall market activity.
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E.
S&P 500 Index
The S&P 500 Index is a major U.S. stock market benchmark that tracks the performance of 500 large publicly traded companies listed on American exchanges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Dow Jones Transportation Average Description of subject: The Dow Jones Transportation Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major transportation companies, including railroads, airlines, and trucking firms.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dow Jones Transportation Average
linked to: Dow Jones Transportation Average
linked to: Dow Jones Transportation Average
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