GVB
E28406
GVB is Amsterdam’s primary public transport company, operating the city’s trams, buses, metro, and ferries.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GVB canonical | 136 |
| GVB bus services | 1 |
| GVB city buses | 1 |
| GVB ticketing system | 1 |
| GVB tram services | 1 |
| Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T223130 — 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: GVB Context triple: [Amsterdam Amstel, operator, GVB]
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A.
Gassel
Gassel is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known historically as a separate municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
Vereeniging
Vereeniging is a South African town in Gauteng province best known historically as the site where the Treaty of Vereeniging ended the Second Boer War in 1902.
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C.
Lombok
Lombok is an Indonesian island east of Bali, known for its volcanic Mount Rinjani, beaches, and Sasak culture.
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D.
Vine
Vine was a short-form video hosting service and social media platform known for its looping six-second clips and significant cultural impact in the early 2010s.
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E.
BnG
BnG is the commonly used abbreviation for Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the principal public body responsible for promoting and supporting the Scottish Gaelic language in Scotland.
- 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: GVB Target entity description: GVB is Amsterdam’s primary public transport company, operating the city’s trams, buses, metro, and ferries.
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A.
Gassel
Gassel is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known historically as a separate municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
Vereeniging
Vereeniging is a South African town in Gauteng province best known historically as the site where the Treaty of Vereeniging ended the Second Boer War in 1902.
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C.
Lombok
Lombok is an Indonesian island east of Bali, known for its volcanic Mount Rinjani, beaches, and Sasak culture.
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D.
Vine
Vine was a short-form video hosting service and social media platform known for its looping six-second clips and significant cultural impact in the early 2010s.
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E.
BnG
BnG is the commonly used abbreviation for Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the principal public body responsible for promoting and supporting the Scottish Gaelic language in Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public transport company
ⓘ
transport operator ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf
ⓘ
linked to:
GVB
|
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| focusesOn | urban mobility ⓘ |
| hasService |
daytime tram lines
ⓘ
ferry connections for pedestrians and cyclists ⓘ metro lines ⓘ night bus lines ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.gvb.nl ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| industry | public transportation ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation | Dutch ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport |
bus
ⓘ
ferry ⓘ metro ⓘ tram ⓘ |
| operates |
bus network in Amsterdam
ⓘ
ferry services in Amsterdam ⓘ metro network in Amsterdam ⓘ tram network in Amsterdam ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Amsterdam city districts
ⓘ
IJ river crossings ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Municipality of Amsterdam ⓘ |
| primaryServiceArea |
Amsterdam city centre
ⓘ
linked to:
Amsterdam-Centrum
Amsterdam suburbs ⓘ
linked to:
Amsterdam metropolitan area
municipality of Amsterdam ⓘ
linked to:
Municipality of Amsterdam
|
| provides |
public transit tickets
ⓘ
travel information ⓘ |
| region | North Holland ⓘ |
| serves |
Amsterdam
ⓘ
Metropolitan Region Amsterdam ⓘ
linked to:
Amsterdam metropolitan area
|
| serviceType | urban public transport ⓘ |
| usesTicketingSystem | OV-chipkaart ⓘ |
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: GVB Description of subject: GVB is Amsterdam’s primary public transport company, operating the city’s trams, buses, metro, and ferries.
Referenced by (141)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GVB
linked to: GVB
linked to: GVB
linked to: GVB
linked to: GVB