FasTrak
E172508
FasTrak is an electronic toll collection system used on bridges, roads, and express lanes throughout California.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FasTrak canonical | 11 |
| FasTrak electronic toll collection system | 2 |
| FasTrak Flex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1505076 — 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: FasTrak Context triple: [San Mateo–Hayward Bridge, tollCollection, FasTrak]
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A.
E-ZPass
E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system widely used on highways and bridges across the eastern United States, allowing drivers to pay tolls automatically without stopping.
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B.
TEXpress Lanes
TEXpress Lanes are a network of dynamically priced managed toll lanes in North Texas designed to reduce congestion and provide faster travel options alongside existing highways.
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C.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
SR 400 Express Lanes
SR 400 Express Lanes is a managed lanes project in Georgia designed to add tolled express capacity and improve traffic flow along the State Route 400 corridor in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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E.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
- 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: FasTrak Target entity description: FasTrak is an electronic toll collection system used on bridges, roads, and express lanes throughout California.
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A.
E-ZPass
E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system widely used on highways and bridges across the eastern United States, allowing drivers to pay tolls automatically without stopping.
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B.
TEXpress Lanes
TEXpress Lanes are a network of dynamically priced managed toll lanes in North Texas designed to reduce congestion and provide faster travel options alongside existing highways.
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C.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
SR 400 Express Lanes
SR 400 Express Lanes is a managed lanes project in Georgia designed to add tolled express capacity and improve traffic flow along the State Route 400 corridor in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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E.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | electronic toll collection system ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
enable cashless tolling
ⓘ
improve traffic flow on express lanes ⓘ reduce toll plaza congestion ⓘ |
| allows | discounted tolls on some facilities ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currency | US dollar ⓘ |
| dataCollected |
time of toll transaction
ⓘ
toll amount ⓘ toll location ⓘ transponder ID ⓘ |
| governedBy | California state law ⓘ |
| hasAccountType |
business account
ⓘ
individual account ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
back-office processing system
ⓘ
roadside readers ⓘ transponder ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic toll deduction
ⓘ
interoperable across California toll facilities ⓘ license plate tolling support ⓘ prepaid toll account ⓘ |
| hasPolicy | violation enforcement for unpaid tolls ⓘ |
| identificationNumberFormat | unique transponder serial number ⓘ |
| identifies | vehicle passage at toll points ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| operatedBy | California toll agencies ⓘ |
| operatingArea |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| paymentMethod |
cash payment at retail locations
ⓘ
credit card ⓘ online account funding ⓘ |
| regulates | toll payment on participating facilities ⓘ |
| requires | vehicle registration information for account ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
RFID transponder
ⓘ
electronic toll tag ⓘ |
| tollCollectionMode |
all-electronic tolling
ⓘ
open road tolling ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Bay Area Express Lanes
ⓘ
Golden Gate Bridge ⓘ Interstate 15 express lanes ⓘ Orange County toll roads ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area toll bridges ⓘ State Route 91 express lanes ⓘ
linked to:
91 Express Lanes
bridges ⓘ express lanes ⓘ toll roads ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bayareafastrak.org ⓘ |
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: FasTrak Description of subject: FasTrak is an electronic toll collection system used on bridges, roads, and express lanes throughout California.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.