Mid-America Regional Council
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The Mid-America Regional Council is a regional planning and coordination agency that oversees transportation, development, and cooperative initiatives for the Kansas City metropolitan area.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mid-America Regional Council canonical | 2 |
| regional council of governments for the Kansas City metropolitan area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T605012 — 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: Mid-America Regional Council Context triple: [Kansas City metropolitan area, governingBody, Mid-America Regional Council]
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A.
Metropolitan Council
The Metropolitan Council is a regional governmental agency that plans and coordinates transit, housing, wastewater, and land use services for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota.
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B.
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is the regional planning organization responsible for long-range land use, transportation, and economic development planning in the greater Chicago area.
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C.
Bi-State Development Agency
The Bi-State Development Agency is a regional public authority that operates and oversees public transportation services, including Metro Transit, in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
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D.
Tri-State Oversight Committee
The Tri-State Oversight Committee was a former multi-jurisdictional body responsible for overseeing safety on the Washington Metro system before being succeeded by the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.
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E.
Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois
The Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois is the oversight and funding agency that coordinates public transit services, including those of the Chicago Transit Authority, across the Chicago 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: Mid-America Regional Council Target entity description: The Mid-America Regional Council is a regional planning and coordination agency that oversees transportation, development, and cooperative initiatives for the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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A.
Metropolitan Council
The Metropolitan Council is a regional governmental agency that plans and coordinates transit, housing, wastewater, and land use services for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota.
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B.
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is the regional planning organization responsible for long-range land use, transportation, and economic development planning in the greater Chicago area.
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C.
Bi-State Development Agency
The Bi-State Development Agency is a regional public authority that operates and oversees public transportation services, including Metro Transit, in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
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D.
Tri-State Oversight Committee
The Tri-State Oversight Committee was a former multi-jurisdictional body responsible for overseeing safety on the Washington Metro system before being succeeded by the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.
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E.
Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois
The Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois is the oversight and funding agency that coordinates public transit services, including those of the Chicago Transit Authority, across the Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
council of governments
ⓘ
metropolitan planning organization ⓘ regional planning organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MARC ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
improve quality of life in the Kansas City metropolitan area
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promote efficient use of regional resources ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
federal transportation agencies
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local governments in the Kansas City region ⓘ state agencies in Kansas ⓘ state agencies in Missouri ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| focusesOn |
aging services coordination
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community development ⓘ data and research services ⓘ economic development coordination ⓘ emergency services coordination ⓘ environmental planning ⓘ regional planning ⓘ transportation planning ⓘ |
| governingBodyType | board of local elected officials ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
cities
ⓘ
counties ⓘ special districts ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
aging and adult services program
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emergency services and homeland security program ⓘ environment and natural resources program ⓘ local government services program ⓘ regional transportation planning program ⓘ research services program ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| oversees |
allocation of certain federal transportation funds in the Kansas City region
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regional transportation planning for the Kansas City metropolitan area ⓘ |
| provides |
planning services to local governments
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public policy research for the Kansas City region ⓘ regional demographic and economic data ⓘ technical assistance on transportation projects ⓘ |
| role |
forum for local governments
ⓘ
metropolitan planning organization for transportation ⓘ regional coordination agency ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Kansas City metropolitan area ⓘ |
| servesState |
Kansas
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ |
| supports | cooperative initiatives among member jurisdictions ⓘ |
| website | https://www.marc.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: Mid-America Regional Council Description of subject: The Mid-America Regional Council is a regional planning and coordination agency that oversees transportation, development, and cooperative initiatives for the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.