UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
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The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is a leading research center focused on transportation policy, planning, and equity, housed within UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5611014 — 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: UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Context triple: [Luskin School of Public Affairs, hasResearchCenter, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies]
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A.
Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley is a leading interdisciplinary research and education center focused on advancing transportation systems, policy, and technology.
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B.
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute is a leading research agency specializing in transportation systems, safety, and infrastructure innovation.
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C.
Mineta Transportation Institute
The Mineta Transportation Institute is a research and education center focused on surface transportation policy, planning, and management, based at San José State University in California.
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D.
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies is a leading academic division of the University of California, Los Angeles, focused on research, teaching, and policy in education, information science, and related social justice issues.
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E.
Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center
The Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center is a high-performance computing facility dedicated to advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis of transportation systems and technologies.
- 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: UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Target entity description: The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is a leading research center focused on transportation policy, planning, and equity, housed within UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.
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A.
Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley is a leading interdisciplinary research and education center focused on advancing transportation systems, policy, and technology.
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B.
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute is a leading research agency specializing in transportation systems, safety, and infrastructure innovation.
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C.
Mineta Transportation Institute
The Mineta Transportation Institute is a research and education center focused on surface transportation policy, planning, and management, based at San José State University in California.
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D.
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies is a leading academic division of the University of California, Los Angeles, focused on research, teaching, and policy in education, information science, and related social justice issues.
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E.
Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center
The Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center is a high-performance computing facility dedicated to advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis of transportation systems and technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic institute
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research center ⓘ transportation research institute ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
civil engineering
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public policy ⓘ transportation studies ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of California system ⓘ |
| campus |
UCLA
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linked to:
University of California, Los Angeles
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| collaboratesWith |
nonprofit organizations
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other universities ⓘ private sector organizations ⓘ public agencies ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOn |
active transportation
ⓘ
land use and transportation ⓘ public transit ⓘ sustainable transportation ⓘ transportation and climate change ⓘ transportation demand management ⓘ transportation equity ⓘ transportation finance ⓘ transportation justice ⓘ transportation planning ⓘ transportation policy ⓘ transportation safety ⓘ travel behavior ⓘ urban transportation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| mission |
to advance equitable and sustainable transportation systems
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to inform transportation policy and planning through research ⓘ |
| offers |
conferences
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public events ⓘ research fellowships ⓘ seminars ⓘ student research opportunities ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| parentOrganization |
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| partOf |
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| researchOutput |
academic publications
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data sets ⓘ policy reports ⓘ technical reports ⓘ working papers ⓘ |
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: UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Description of subject: The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is a leading research center focused on transportation policy, planning, and equity, housed within UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.