Muni
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Muni is San Francisco’s primary public transit agency, operating buses, light rail, historic streetcars, and the city’s iconic cable cars.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Muni canonical | 54 |
| San Francisco Muni | 1 |
| The Muni | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T70761 — 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: Muni Context triple: [San Francisco cable car system, operator, Muni]
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A.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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B.
Portland Streetcar
Portland Streetcar is a modern urban streetcar transit system serving central Portland, Oregon, connecting key neighborhoods, employment centers, and educational institutions.
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C.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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D.
The Garden City
The Garden City is a nickname for Newton, Massachusetts, reflecting its abundant green spaces, tree-lined streets, and residential charm.
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E.
C-TRAN
C-TRAN is the public transit agency serving Clark County and the Vancouver, Washington area, providing bus and express services often coordinated with Portland’s TriMet system.
- 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: Muni Target entity description: Muni is San Francisco’s primary public transit agency, operating buses, light rail, historic streetcars, and the city’s iconic cable cars.
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A.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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B.
Portland Streetcar
Portland Streetcar is a modern urban streetcar transit system serving central Portland, Oregon, connecting key neighborhoods, employment centers, and educational institutions.
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C.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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D.
The Garden City
The Garden City is a nickname for Newton, Massachusetts, reflecting its abundant green spaces, tree-lined streets, and residential charm.
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E.
C-TRAN
C-TRAN is the public transit agency serving Clark County and the Vancouver, Washington area, providing bus and express services often coordinated with Portland’s TriMet system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public transit agency
ⓘ
transport operator ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fareSystem | integrated citywide fare system ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Muni ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Francisco ⓘ |
| mode |
bus
ⓘ
cable car ⓘ light rail ⓘ streetcar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being San Francisco’s primary public transit agency
ⓘ
operating San Francisco cable cars ⓘ |
| officialName |
San Francisco Municipal Railway
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Muni
|
| operates |
bus services
ⓘ
cable cars ⓘ historic streetcars ⓘ light rail services ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City and County of San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco County
|
| parentOrganization |
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Muni
|
| partOf |
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Muni
|
| publicTransportNetwork | San Francisco public transportation network ⓘ |
| serves |
City and County of San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco County
|
| serviceArea |
San Francisco Bay Area (local within San Francisco)
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Bay Area
|
| shortName | Muni ⓘ |
| transitType |
multimodal transit
ⓘ
urban transit ⓘ |
| usesInfrastructure |
cable car tracks
ⓘ
light rail tracks ⓘ overhead electric wires for trolley buses ⓘ |
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: Muni Description of subject: Muni is San Francisco’s primary public transit agency, operating buses, light rail, historic streetcars, and the city’s iconic cable cars.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Muni
subject linked to:
historic streetcar F-line
subject linked to:
Drumm Street, San Francisco
linked to: Muni