METRO Q Card
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The METRO Q Card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used to pay for rides on Houston’s METRO public transit system.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| METRO Q Card canonical | 12 |
| METRO Q Fare Card | 11 |
| METRO Q Corporate or institutional cards | 1 |
| METRO Q Fare Card for persons with disabilities | 1 |
| METRO Q Fare Card for seniors | 1 |
| METRO Q Fare System | 1 |
| METRO Q Fare system | 1 |
| METRO Q Mobile Ticketing app | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4177084 — 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: METRO Q Card Context triple: [Houston METRORail, fareMedium, METRO Q Card]
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A.
Metro TAP card
The Metro TAP card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used for contactless payment across the Los Angeles County public transit system.
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B.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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C.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
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D.
Breeze Card
The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
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E.
Opal card
The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
- 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: METRO Q Card Target entity description: The METRO Q Card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used to pay for rides on Houston’s METRO public transit system.
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A.
Metro TAP card
The Metro TAP card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used for contactless payment across the Los Angeles County public transit system.
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B.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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C.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
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D.
Breeze Card
The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
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E.
Opal card
The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
public transit fare medium ⓘ smart fare card ⓘ |
| acceptedOn |
METRO bus validators
ⓘ
METRORail platform validators ⓘ METRORapid platform validators ⓘ |
| brandOwner | Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County ⓘ |
| canBeObtainedAt |
METRO RideStores
ⓘ
linked to:
METRO Park & Ride services
online through Houston METRO ⓘ select retail locations in the Houston area ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| governingBody | Board of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
METRO Q Fare Card
ⓘ
linked to:
METRO Q Card
Q Card ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
auto-reload option
ⓘ
automatic fare deduction ⓘ balance protection when registered ⓘ fare capping and discounts eligibility ⓘ online account management ⓘ reduced fare options for eligible riders ⓘ stored value balance ⓘ transfer credit between connecting trips ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
METRO Q Corporate or institutional cards
ⓘ
linked to:
METRO Q Card
METRO Q Fare Card for persons with disabilities ⓘ
linked to:
METRO Q Card
METRO Q Fare Card for seniors ⓘ
linked to:
METRO Q Card
METRO Q Fare Card for students ⓘ regular METRO Q Card ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston
|
| operator |
Houston METRO
ⓘ
linked to:
METRO (Houston)
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County ⓘ |
| partOf | Houston METRO fare collection system ⓘ |
| paymentMethodFor |
METRO Park & Ride bus
ⓘ
METRO curb2curb and other eligible services ⓘ METRO local bus ⓘ METRORail ⓘ
linked to:
METRORail light rail
METRORapid ⓘ |
| regionServed | Houston metropolitan area ⓘ |
| reloadable | true ⓘ |
| replaced | paper tickets and tokens on Houston METRO ⓘ |
| requires | tapping on a validator to pay fare ⓘ |
| reusable | true ⓘ |
| supports | fare discounts for qualifying riders ⓘ |
| targetUser | Houston METRO riders ⓘ |
| technology | contactless RFID ⓘ |
| usedFor | paying fares on Houston METRO services ⓘ |
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: METRO Q Card Description of subject: The METRO Q Card is a reusable, reloadable smart fare card used to pay for rides on Houston’s METRO public transit system.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Red Line
linked to: METRO Q Card
subject linked to:
Purple Line
subject linked to:
METRORail light rail
linked to: METRO Q Card
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subject linked to:
Green Line
linked to: METRO Q Card
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