VTA bus network
E72474
The VTA bus network is the public bus transit system serving Santa Clara County, California, providing local and regional bus services across cities such as San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VTA bus network canonical | 14 |
| VTA bus | 4 |
| VTA Bus | 2 |
| VTA Rapid | 2 |
| Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) buses | 1 |
| VTA Rapid bus | 1 |
| VTA bus system | 1 |
| VTA transit services at Berryessa/North San José station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T572441 — 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: VTA bus network Context triple: [Santa Clara, hasTransportation, VTA bus network]
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A.
VTA light rail
VTA light rail is a light rail public transit system serving Santa Clara County, including cities such as San Jose, operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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B.
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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C.
Muni bus network
The Muni bus network is San Francisco’s citywide public transit system of buses and trolleybuses that provides comprehensive surface transportation across the city.
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D.
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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E.
DART bus network
The DART bus network is the system of public bus routes operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit that provides local and regional transportation throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- 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: VTA bus network Target entity description: The VTA bus network is the public bus transit system serving Santa Clara County, California, providing local and regional bus services across cities such as San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View.
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A.
VTA light rail
VTA light rail is a light rail public transit system serving Santa Clara County, including cities such as San Jose, operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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B.
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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C.
Muni bus network
The Muni bus network is San Francisco’s citywide public transit system of buses and trolleybuses that provides comprehensive surface transportation across the city.
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D.
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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E.
DART bus network
The DART bus network is the system of public bus routes operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit that provides local and regional transportation throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mass transit network
ⓘ
public bus transit system ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
ACE commuter rail
ⓘ
Bay Area Rapid Transit ⓘ
linked to:
BART
Caltrain ⓘ VTA light rail system ⓘ
linked to:
VTA light rail
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fareSystem | VTA fare system ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
federal transportation funds
ⓘ
local sales tax ⓘ state transportation funds ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Board of Directors
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
|
| hasMode |
community bus
ⓘ
express bus ⓘ fixed-route bus ⓘ rapid bus ⓘ |
| hasServiceBrand |
Express bus routes
ⓘ
Local bus routes ⓘ Rapid bus routes ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Jose, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose, California, United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| operatorType | public transit agency ⓘ |
| owner | Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| partOf | public transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| primaryHub |
Berryessa Transit Center
ⓘ
Diridon Station ⓘ Downtown San Jose ⓘ Eastridge Transit Center ⓘ Great Mall/Main Transit Center ⓘ |
| providesService |
peak-hour commuter service
ⓘ
weekday service ⓘ weekend service ⓘ |
| publicTransitSystemFor |
Santa Clara County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| region | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Mountain View, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Mountain View, California, United States
San Jose, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose, California, United States
Sunnyvale, California ⓘ
linked to:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
|
| servesCounty |
Santa Clara County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| serviceArea |
Silicon Valley
ⓘ
South Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
linked to:
South Bay
|
| serviceType |
local bus service
ⓘ
regional bus service ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| usesTicketing | Clipper card ⓘ |
| website | https://www.vta.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: VTA bus network Description of subject: The VTA bus network is the public bus transit system serving Santa Clara County, California, providing local and regional bus services across cities such as San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Castro Street
linked to: VTA bus network
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subject linked to:
downtown Mountain View
linked to: VTA bus network
linked to: VTA bus network