MBTA bus route 71
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MBTA bus route 71 is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus line that primarily operates between Harvard Square in Cambridge and Watertown, serving neighborhoods along Mount Auburn Street.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MBTA bus route 71 canonical | 3 |
| MBTA bus route 71 (partial corridor replacement) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1608612 — 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)
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Target entity: MBTA bus route 71 Context triple: [Watertown Square, servedBy, MBTA bus route 71]
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MBTA bus route 70
MBTA bus route 70 is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus line that runs between Cambridge and Waltham, serving several communities along the Charles River corridor.
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MBTA bus route 57
MBTA bus route 57 is a key Boston-area bus line that connects downtown Boston with Allston, Brighton, and Watertown, serving as a major transit corridor along Commonwealth Avenue and beyond.
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C.
MBTA bus route 111
MBTA bus route 111 is a high-ridership Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus line serving the corridor between downtown Boston and the city of Chelsea.
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MBTA bus route 28
MBTA bus route 28 is a major Boston-area bus line that runs along Blue Hill Avenue and Warren Street, connecting Mattapan and Roxbury to downtown transit hubs and serving some of the system’s highest-ridership corridors.
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E.
MBTA bus route 1
MBTA bus route 1 is a heavily used Boston-area bus line that runs between Harvard Square in Cambridge and Dudley/Nubian Square in Roxbury, serving major corridors like Massachusetts Avenue.
- 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: MBTA bus route 71 Target entity description: MBTA bus route 71 is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus line that primarily operates between Harvard Square in Cambridge and Watertown, serving neighborhoods along Mount Auburn Street.
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A.
MBTA bus route 70
MBTA bus route 70 is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus line that runs between Cambridge and Waltham, serving several communities along the Charles River corridor.
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B.
MBTA bus route 57
MBTA bus route 57 is a key Boston-area bus line that connects downtown Boston with Allston, Brighton, and Watertown, serving as a major transit corridor along Commonwealth Avenue and beyond.
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C.
MBTA bus route 111
MBTA bus route 111 is a high-ridership Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus line serving the corridor between downtown Boston and the city of Chelsea.
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D.
MBTA bus route 28
MBTA bus route 28 is a major Boston-area bus line that runs along Blue Hill Avenue and Warren Street, connecting Mattapan and Roxbury to downtown transit hubs and serving some of the system’s highest-ridership corridors.
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E.
MBTA bus route 1
MBTA bus route 1 is a heavily used Boston-area bus line that runs between Harvard Square in Cambridge and Dudley/Nubian Square in Roxbury, serving major corridors like Massachusetts Avenue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: MBTA bus route 71 Description of subject: MBTA bus route 71 is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus line that primarily operates between Harvard Square in Cambridge and Watertown, serving neighborhoods along Mount Auburn Street.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Watertown branch of the Green Line A
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successor
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MBTA bus route 71 (partial corridor replacement)
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linked to: MBTA bus route 71