CharmCard
E111019
CharmCard is a contactless smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Maryland Transit Administration’s bus, rail, and other public transportation services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CharmCard canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T943748 — 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: CharmCard Context triple: [Maryland Transit Administration, fareSystem, CharmCard]
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A.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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B.
Card
Card is a surname most notably borne by Andrew Card, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
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C.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Breeze Card
The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
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E.
Calling Cards
Calling Cards is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that showcases emerging filmmakers’ early or breakthrough works.
- 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: CharmCard Target entity description: CharmCard is a contactless smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Maryland Transit Administration’s bus, rail, and other public transportation services.
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A.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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B.
Card
Card is a surname most notably borne by Andrew Card, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
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C.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Breeze Card
The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
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E.
Calling Cards
Calling Cards is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that showcases emerging filmmakers’ early or breakthrough works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
fare card ⓘ stored-value card ⓘ |
| allows |
contactless fare payment at validators
ⓘ
purchase of transit passes ⓘ reloading of value ⓘ |
| brandOf | MTA Maryland fare media ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystemType | electronic fare collection system ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
compatibility with multiple MTA modes of transport
ⓘ
reusable card ⓘ stored-value balance ⓘ tap-on fare validation ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Maryland Transit Administration ⓘ |
| medium | plastic card ⓘ |
| operator | Maryland Transit Administration ⓘ |
| paymentMethod |
passes and fare products
ⓘ
stored monetary value ⓘ |
| replaces |
magnetic stripe fare media
ⓘ
paper tickets ⓘ |
| sector | public transportation ⓘ |
| serves | Maryland ⓘ |
| targetUser | public transit riders in Maryland ⓘ |
| technology | contactless smartcard technology ⓘ |
| usedFor | paying public transit fares ⓘ |
| usedOn |
MARC Train
ⓘ
surface form:
MARC Train Service
Baltimore Light Rail ⓘ
surface form:
MTA Maryland Light Rail
Baltimore Metro SubwayLink ⓘ
surface form:
MTA Maryland Metro Subway
MTA Maryland commuter bus services ⓘ MTA Maryland local bus services ⓘ |
| validIn |
Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltimore metropolitan area
|
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: CharmCard Description of subject: CharmCard is a contactless smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Maryland Transit Administration’s bus, rail, and other public transportation services.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.