San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority
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The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority is a regional public agency that oversees and operates ferry services and coordinates water-based transit for both daily commuters and emergency response in the San Francisco Bay Area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3369428 — 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)
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Target entity: San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority Context triple: [San Francisco Bay Ferry, operator, San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority]
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A.
San Francisco County Transportation Authority
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority is the county’s transportation planning and funding agency, responsible for developing and overseeing major transit, roadway, and mobility projects in San Francisco.
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B.
San Mateo County Transportation Authority
The San Mateo County Transportation Authority is a public agency responsible for planning, funding, and delivering transportation and congestion-relief projects within San Mateo County, California.
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C.
Bay Area Toll Authority
The Bay Area Toll Authority is a regional agency responsible for overseeing toll collection and financing for the network of state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is the public transit agency that operates bus, light rail, and related transportation services throughout Santa Clara County in California’s Silicon Valley.
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E.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is the city department responsible for managing and operating San Francisco’s public transit, parking, traffic, and street infrastructure.
- 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: San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority Target entity description: The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority is a regional public agency that oversees and operates ferry services and coordinates water-based transit for both daily commuters and emergency response in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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A.
San Francisco County Transportation Authority
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority is the county’s transportation planning and funding agency, responsible for developing and overseeing major transit, roadway, and mobility projects in San Francisco.
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B.
San Mateo County Transportation Authority
The San Mateo County Transportation Authority is a public agency responsible for planning, funding, and delivering transportation and congestion-relief projects within San Mateo County, California.
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C.
Bay Area Toll Authority
The Bay Area Toll Authority is a regional agency responsible for overseeing toll collection and financing for the network of state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is the public transit agency that operates bus, light rail, and related transportation services throughout Santa Clara County in California’s Silicon Valley.
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E.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is the city department responsible for managing and operating San Francisco’s public transit, parking, traffic, and street infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry operator
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public transportation agency ⓘ regional government agency ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
disaster response via water transit
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resilient transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| governanceType | regional authority ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransitFunction |
coordinates with emergency management agencies
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operates scheduled ferry routes ⓘ plans water transit services ⓘ |
| hasRole |
coordinates water-based transit for daily commuters
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coordinates water-based transit for emergency response ⓘ oversees ferry services in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California
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linked to:
San Francisco
|
| industry |
maritime transport
ⓘ
public transportation ⓘ |
| isPartOf | public transit network of the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of California
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linked to:
California, United States
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | public agency ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | water transport ⓘ |
| operatesInArea |
Alameda County, California
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linked to:
Alameda County
Contra Costa County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Contra Costa County
Marin County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Marin County
San Francisco Bay ⓘ San Francisco County, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco County
|
| oversees |
San Francisco Bay Ferry system
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Bay Ferry
|
| purpose |
provide water transit for commuters
ⓘ
provide water transportation during emergencies ⓘ |
| regionServed | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serviceType |
emergency water transportation
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ferry service ⓘ water transit ⓘ |
| shortName | WETA ⓘ |
| transportationMode | passenger ferries ⓘ |
| transportationSystem | San Francisco Bay Ferry ⓘ |
| usesInfrastructure |
ferry terminals
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passenger ferries ⓘ |
| website | https://weta.sanfranciscobayferry.com/ ⓘ |
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: San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority Description of subject: The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority is a regional public agency that oversees and operates ferry services and coordinates water-based transit for both daily commuters and emergency response in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
San Francisco Bay Ferry
→
operator
→
San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority
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San Francisco Bay Ferry
→
governingBody
→
San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority
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