SouthWest Transit (historical regional context, if applicable)
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SouthWest Transit was a former regional bus operator serving the southwestern Portland metropolitan area, including routes that connected to the Beaverton Transit Center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SouthWest Transit (historical regional context, if applicable) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T712056 — 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: SouthWest Transit (historical regional context, if applicable) Context triple: [Beaverton Transit Center, servedByBusOperator, SouthWest Transit (historical regional context, if applicable)]
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A.
Transit Bureau
The Transit Bureau is the division of the New York City Police Department responsible for policing and ensuring safety within the city’s public transit system, particularly the subway.
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B.
StarMetro public transit system
StarMetro public transit system is the city-operated bus and paratransit network serving residents, students, and visitors throughout Tallahassee, Florida.
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C.
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.
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D.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
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E.
MiWay bus services
MiWay bus services is the public transit system for the City of Mississauga, Ontario, operating local and express bus routes that connect the city with surrounding regions.
- 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: SouthWest Transit (historical regional context, if applicable) Target entity description: SouthWest Transit was a former regional bus operator serving the southwestern Portland metropolitan area, including routes that connected to the Beaverton Transit Center.
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A.
Transit Bureau
The Transit Bureau is the division of the New York City Police Department responsible for policing and ensuring safety within the city’s public transit system, particularly the subway.
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B.
StarMetro public transit system
StarMetro public transit system is the city-operated bus and paratransit network serving residents, students, and visitors throughout Tallahassee, Florida.
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C.
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.
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D.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
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E.
MiWay bus services
MiWay bus services is the public transit system for the City of Mississauga, Ontario, operating local and express bus routes that connect the city with surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus company
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public transport operator ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Beaverton Transit Center ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| locatedIn | Oregon ⓘ |
| operatedServiceType | regional bus service ⓘ |
| region |
Portland, Oregon metropolitan area
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linked to:
Portland
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| servedArea | southwestern Portland metropolitan area ⓘ |
| servedCity | Beaverton, Oregon ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| transportMode | bus ⓘ |
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: SouthWest Transit (historical regional context, if applicable) Description of subject: SouthWest Transit was a former regional bus operator serving the southwestern Portland metropolitan area, including routes that connected to the Beaverton Transit Center.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Beaverton Transit Center
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servedByBusOperator
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SouthWest Transit (historical regional context, if applicable)
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