Santa Monica Big Blue Bus
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Santa Monica Big Blue Bus is a public transit agency serving Santa Monica and surrounding areas in Los Angeles County with local and express bus services.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Santa Monica Big Blue Bus canonical | 8 |
| Santa Monica Big Blue Bus lines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T649282 — 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: Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Context triple: [TAP card, usedOn, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus]
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A.
Muni
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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B.
TheBus (Honolulu)
TheBus (Honolulu) is the public bus transit system serving the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii, providing extensive routes throughout Honolulu and surrounding communities.
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C.
Pace Suburban Bus
Pace Suburban Bus is a public transportation agency serving the suburban areas of the Chicago metropolitan region with bus and paratransit services.
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D.
Metro Board
Metro Board is the governing body responsible for overseeing policy, budget, and strategic decisions for a metropolitan transit agency.
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E.
OmniRide bus service
OmniRide bus service is a public transit system in Northern Virginia that provides local and commuter bus routes connecting suburban communities with major employment and activity centers in the region.
- 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: Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Target entity description: Santa Monica Big Blue Bus is a public transit agency serving Santa Monica and surrounding areas in Los Angeles County with local and express bus services.
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A.
Muni
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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B.
TheBus (Honolulu)
TheBus (Honolulu) is the public bus transit system serving the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii, providing extensive routes throughout Honolulu and surrounding communities.
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C.
Pace Suburban Bus
Pace Suburban Bus is a public transportation agency serving the suburban areas of the Chicago metropolitan region with bus and paratransit services.
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D.
Metro Board
Metro Board is the governing body responsible for overseeing policy, budget, and strategic decisions for a metropolitan transit agency.
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E.
OmniRide bus service
OmniRide bus service is a public transit system in Northern Virginia that provides local and commuter bus routes connecting suburban communities with major employment and activity centers in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus operator
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public transit agency ⓘ |
| accepts |
contactless fare media
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regional transit passes ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fareSystem | flat fare system ⓘ |
| fleetType |
battery electric buses
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compressed natural gas buses ⓘ diesel buses ⓘ |
| focusesOn | first-mile/last-mile connections to rail ⓘ |
| hasColor |
blue
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white ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bike racks on buses
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mobile trip planning tools ⓘ real-time arrival information ⓘ |
| hasRouteType |
commuter express routes
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crosstown routes ⓘ downtown circulator routes ⓘ |
| hasService |
All-day local service
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Limited-stop service ⓘ Rapid routes ⓘ |
| hasServiceArea |
Westside region of Los Angeles County
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linked to:
Westside of Los Angeles
|
| headquartersLocation |
Santa Monica, California
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linked to:
Santa Monica, California, United States
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| implements | transit signal priority on selected routes ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Los Angeles County public transportation network ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| offers |
employer-sponsored pass programs
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senior and disabled discounted fares ⓘ student fare programs ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Los Angeles County
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Santa Monica ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
weekdays
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weekends ⓘ |
| owner |
City of Santa Monica
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linked to:
Santa Monica
|
| provides | ADA-accessible bus service ⓘ |
| serves |
Culver City (selected routes)
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Downtown Los Angeles (selected routes) ⓘ LAX area (selected routes) ⓘ Santa Monica College ⓘ UCLA ⓘ
linked to:
University of California, Los Angeles
West Los Angeles ⓘ
linked to:
Westside of Los Angeles
|
| serviceType |
express bus service
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local bus service ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| uses | bus-only lanes on selected corridors ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bigbluebus.com ⓘ |
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: Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Description of subject: Santa Monica Big Blue Bus is a public transit agency serving Santa Monica and surrounding areas in Los Angeles County with local and express bus services.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Santa Monica Big Blue Bus
subject linked to:
West Los Angeles, California, United States
Southern California regional transportation network
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