MetroBus
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MetroBus is the public bus service operating under the Metro Transit system in the St. Louis metropolitan area, providing local and regional fixed-route transportation.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MetroBus canonical | 9 |
| MetroBus (St. Louis) | 8 |
| MetroBus St. Louis | 2 |
| MetroBus network | 1 |
| St. Louis MetroBus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5495165 — 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: MetroBus Context triple: [Metro Transit (St. Louis), brandIncludes, MetroBus]
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A.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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B.
Metrobus
Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
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C.
Metro Bus
Metro Bus is the primary public bus service network for Los Angeles County, providing extensive local and rapid transit across the region.
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D.
Metrobús
Metrobús is Mexico City’s bus rapid transit system, featuring dedicated lanes and high-capacity articulated buses to provide efficient urban transportation across the metropolis.
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E.
Metro Rapid
Metro Rapid is a network of limited-stop, high-frequency bus routes in Los Angeles designed to provide faster service along major corridors than regular local buses.
- 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: MetroBus Target entity description: MetroBus is the public bus service operating under the Metro Transit system in the St. Louis metropolitan area, providing local and regional fixed-route transportation.
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A.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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B.
Metrobus
Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
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C.
Metro Bus
Metro Bus is the primary public bus service network for Los Angeles County, providing extensive local and rapid transit across the region.
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D.
Metrobús
Metrobús is Mexico City’s bus rapid transit system, featuring dedicated lanes and high-capacity articulated buses to provide efficient urban transportation across the metropolis.
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E.
Metro Rapid
Metro Rapid is a network of limited-stop, high-frequency bus routes in Los Angeles designed to provide faster service along major corridors than regular local buses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public bus service
ⓘ
public transportation system component ⓘ |
| brandOf | Metro Transit bus operations ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fareSystem |
integrated with Metro Call‑A‑Ride
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Call-A-Ride
integrated with MetroLink ⓘ |
| governingBody | Bi-State Development Agency ⓘ |
| hasServiceAreaFeature |
Madison County, Illinois
ⓘ
St. Clair County, Illinois ⓘ St. Louis County, Missouri ⓘ St. Louis city ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Louis City
|
| integratedWith |
Metro Call‑A‑Ride paratransit
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Call-A-Ride
MetroLink light rail ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialInformation | English ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operator | Metro Transit ⓘ |
| owner | Bi-State Development Agency ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Metro Transit ⓘ |
| partOf |
Metro Transit system
ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Transit
|
| paymentMethod |
fares
ⓘ
passes ⓘ transfers ⓘ |
| primaryCityServed |
St. Louis, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| providesService |
commuter transportation
ⓘ
local circulation ⓘ regional connectivity ⓘ |
| publicTransitAuthority | Bi-State Development Agency ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Illinois
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ |
| sector | public sector transportation ⓘ |
| serves | St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| servicePattern |
fixed routes
ⓘ
scheduled service ⓘ |
| serviceType |
fixed-route bus transportation
ⓘ
local bus service ⓘ regional bus service ⓘ |
| targetUserGroup |
commuters
ⓘ
general public ⓘ students ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| ticketingSystem | shared with MetroLink ⓘ |
| transitSystem | Metro Transit ⓘ |
| transportCategory |
mass transit
ⓘ
public transit ⓘ |
| usesInfrastructure | public streets and highways in St. Louis region ⓘ |
| website | https://www.metrostlouis.org ⓘ |
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: MetroBus Description of subject: MetroBus is the public bus service operating under the Metro Transit system in the St. Louis metropolitan area, providing local and regional fixed-route transportation.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus
subject linked to:
Metro Transit
linked to: MetroBus
subject linked to:
Metro Transit
linked to: MetroBus
subject linked to:
Metro Transit
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus
linked to: MetroBus