SmartLink
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SmartLink is a contactless fare payment card used for accessing PATH train services in the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SmartLink canonical | 4 |
| SmartLink card | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5147266 — 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: SmartLink Context triple: [PATH World Trade Center station, ticketingSystem, SmartLink]
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A.
Link 2 Line
Link 2 Line is a light rail service in the Seattle metropolitan area that connects key neighborhoods and suburbs as part of the Sound Transit Link system.
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B.
Simplink
Simplink is LG's brand name for its HDMI-CEC feature that allows compatible devices connected via HDMI to be controlled with a single remote.
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C.
M Bridge
M Bridge is the common nickname for the Hernando de Soto Bridge, a steel through-arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas.
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D.
Trans Link Systems
Trans Link Systems is the Dutch company responsible for developing and managing the nationwide OV-chipkaart public transport payment system in the Netherlands.
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E.
Hirschmann
Hirschmann is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as diplomacy, engineering, and academia.
- 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: SmartLink Target entity description: SmartLink is a contactless fare payment card used for accessing PATH train services in the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area.
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A.
Link 2 Line
Link 2 Line is a light rail service in the Seattle metropolitan area that connects key neighborhoods and suburbs as part of the Sound Transit Link system.
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B.
Simplink
Simplink is LG's brand name for its HDMI-CEC feature that allows compatible devices connected via HDMI to be controlled with a single remote.
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C.
M Bridge
M Bridge is the common nickname for the Hernando de Soto Bridge, a steel through-arch bridge carrying Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas.
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D.
Trans Link Systems
Trans Link Systems is the Dutch company responsible for developing and managing the nationwide OV-chipkaart public transport payment system in the Netherlands.
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E.
Hirschmann
Hirschmann is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as diplomacy, engineering, and academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless fare payment card
ⓘ
stored-value transit card ⓘ |
| cardMedium | plastic smart card ⓘ |
| category |
Contactless smart cards
ⓘ
Public transport fare collection ⓘ Smart cards ⓘ Transport in New Jersey ⓘ Transport in New York City ⓘ |
| communicationMethod | contactless radio-frequency identification ⓘ |
| fareMediaFor | commuters between New York and New Jersey ⓘ |
| fareSystemFor | Port Authority Trans-Hudson ⓘ |
| introducedFor | modernizing PATH fare collection ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
New York–New Jersey metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
New York metropolitan area
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| operator | Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ⓘ |
| paymentType | prepaid fare card ⓘ |
| regionServed |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
New York City ⓘ |
| replaced | magnetic stripe PATH QuickCard (partially) ⓘ |
| requires | tapping at faregates ⓘ |
| supports |
stored value fares
ⓘ
time-based passes ⓘ |
| technologyType | contactless smart card ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accessing PATH services
ⓘ
paying fares on PATH trains ⓘ |
| usedOn |
PATH rail system
ⓘ
linked to:
PATH rapid transit system
PATH turnstiles ⓘ |
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: SmartLink Description of subject: SmartLink is a contactless fare payment card used for accessing PATH train services in the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SmartLink