Oakland City Center BART station
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Oakland City Center BART station is a rapid transit station in downtown Oakland, California, serving as a key hub on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oakland City Center BART station canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9597300 — 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: Oakland City Center BART station Context triple: [Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, near, Oakland City Center BART station]
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A.
Fremont station (BART)
Fremont station (BART) is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Fremont, California that historically served as the southern terminus of the system’s Fremont line before extension to Warm Springs/South Fremont.
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B.
Rockridge BART station
Rockridge BART station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Rockridge neighborhood on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
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C.
BART West Oakland station
BART West Oakland station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving as a key junction for multiple Bay Area Rapid Transit lines near the eastern approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
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D.
Civic Center/UN Plaza BART station
Civic Center/UN Plaza BART station is a major underground Bay Area Rapid Transit and Muni Metro hub serving San Francisco’s Civic Center area near City Hall and the United Nations Plaza.
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E.
Lake Merritt BART station
Lake Merritt BART station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Lake Merritt neighborhood and nearby civic and residential areas.
- 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: Oakland City Center BART station Target entity description: Oakland City Center BART station is a rapid transit station in downtown Oakland, California, serving as a key hub on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
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A.
Fremont station (BART)
Fremont station (BART) is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Fremont, California that historically served as the southern terminus of the system’s Fremont line before extension to Warm Springs/South Fremont.
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B.
Rockridge BART station
Rockridge BART station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Rockridge neighborhood on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
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C.
BART West Oakland station
BART West Oakland station is an elevated rapid transit station in Oakland, California, serving as a key junction for multiple Bay Area Rapid Transit lines near the eastern approach to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
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D.
Civic Center/UN Plaza BART station
Civic Center/UN Plaza BART station is a major underground Bay Area Rapid Transit and Muni Metro hub serving San Francisco’s Civic Center area near City Hall and the United Nations Plaza.
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E.
Lake Merritt BART station
Lake Merritt BART station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, California, serving the Lake Merritt neighborhood and nearby civic and residential areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rapid transit station ⓘ |
| category | BART stations in Oakland, California ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
AC Transit bus services
ⓘ
Oakland City Center complex ⓘ
linked to:
Oakland City Center
|
| electrification | third rail ⓘ |
| fareControl | barrier faregates ⓘ |
| farePaymentMethod |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
magnetic stripe paper ticket (legacy, being phased out) ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Clipper card ⓘ |
| fareZone | BART Transbay fare structure ⓘ |
| gauge | broad gauge (5 ft 6 in) ⓘ |
| hasAccessibility | accessible for disabled persons ⓘ |
| hasBicycleFacilities | bicycle racks ⓘ |
| hasElevators | yes ⓘ |
| hasEntrances | multiple street-level entrances ⓘ |
| hasEscalators | yes ⓘ |
| hasFareGates | yes ⓘ |
| hasLighting | fluorescent and LED lighting ⓘ |
| hasParking | no dedicated BART parking ⓘ |
| hasPlatformType | island platform ⓘ |
| hasPublicAddressSystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasRealTimeInformation | electronic train arrival displays ⓘ |
| hasRestrooms | yes (paid area, subject to BART policy) ⓘ |
| hasSeating | benches on platform ⓘ |
| hasSignage | bilingual English-Spanish signage ⓘ |
| hasTracks | 2 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alameda County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Alameda County
California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Oakland, California ⓘ
linked to:
Oakland
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| near |
Downtown Oakland office district
ⓘ
Frank H. Ogawa Plaza ⓘ Oakland City Hall ⓘ Oakland Convention Center ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Bay Area Rapid Transit
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay Area Rapid Transit rail network
|
| ownedBy | Bay Area Rapid Transit District ⓘ |
| partOfSystem |
Bay Area Rapid Transit
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay Area Rapid Transit rail network
|
| safetyFeatures |
CCTV surveillance
ⓘ
emergency call boxes ⓘ |
| securityProvidedBy |
BART Police Department
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department
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| serves | downtown Oakland ⓘ |
| servesLine |
Antioch–SFO+Millbrae line
ⓘ
linked to:
BART Antioch–SFO+Millbrae line
Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line ⓘ Richmond–Millbrae+SFO line ⓘ
linked to:
Richmond–Millbrae line
|
| structureType | underground station ⓘ |
| ticketing |
Clipper card add-value machines
ⓘ
ticket vending machines ⓘ |
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: Oakland City Center BART station Description of subject: Oakland City Center BART station is a rapid transit station in downtown Oakland, California, serving as a key hub on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.