TAP card
E11309
The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TAP card canonical | 64 |
| TAP Card | 1 |
| TAP card (Los Angeles) | 1 |
| TAP contactless smart card | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T111830 — 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: TAP card Context triple: [Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, fareSystem, TAP card]
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A.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
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B.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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C.
SEPTA Key
SEPTA Key is a contactless smart fare card and payment system used across Philadelphia’s SEPTA public transit network.
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D.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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E.
NFC
The NFC (National Football Conference) is one of the two conferences in the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
- 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: TAP card Target entity description: The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
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A.
SmarTrip
SmarTrip is a rechargeable contactless smart card used to pay fares on the Washington, D.C. region’s public transit systems.
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B.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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C.
SEPTA Key
SEPTA Key is a contactless smart fare card and payment system used across Philadelphia’s SEPTA public transit network.
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D.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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E.
NFC
The NFC (National Football Conference) is one of the two conferences in the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
reusable fare card ⓘ |
| abbreviation | TAP ⓘ |
| canBeLoadedAt |
TAP mobile app
ⓘ
online ⓘ retail locations ⓘ ticket vending machines ⓘ |
| cardType | contactless smartcard ⓘ |
| communicationStandard | ISO/IEC 14443 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystemName | Transit Access Pass ⓘ |
| hasColor | blue (standard design) ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| isReloadable | true ⓘ |
| isReusable | true ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| operatorAbbreviation |
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
LA Metro
|
| paymentMethod | prepaid ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Los Angeles County
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles County, California
|
| replaces |
magnetic stripe fare media
ⓘ
paper transit passes ⓘ |
| requires | tapping on fare validator ⓘ |
| supports |
disability fare products
ⓘ
inter-agency transfers ⓘ reduced fare products ⓘ senior fare products ⓘ stored value ⓘ student fare products ⓘ time-based passes ⓘ |
| technology | RFID ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automatic fare collection
ⓘ
paying public transit fares ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Los Angeles County
ⓘ
Greater Los Angeles Area ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles metropolitan area
|
| usedOn |
Culver CityBus
ⓘ
Foothill Transit ⓘ Gardena GTrans ⓘ Glendale Beeline ⓘ Metro Bike Share ⓘ
surface form:
LA Metro Bike Share
Long Beach Transit ⓘ Metro Bus ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Metro Bus
Los Angeles Metro Rail ⓘ Metrolink commuter rail ⓘ
surface form:
Metrolink (Southern California)
Montebello Bus Lines ⓘ Norwalk Transit ⓘ Pasadena Transit ⓘ Santa Monica Big Blue Bus ⓘ Torrance Transit ⓘ |
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: TAP card Description of subject: The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Metro Rail (Los Angeles)
subject surface form:
Metro L Line (Los Angeles)
subject surface form:
A Line (Los Angeles Metro)
subject surface form:
Hollywood/Western station
this entity surface form:
TAP contactless smart card
subject surface form:
E Line (Los Angeles Metro)
subject surface form:
Metro Micro
subject surface form:
L Line (Los Angeles Metro)
subject surface form:
Blue Line (Los Angeles Metro)
subject surface form:
Red Line (Los Angeles Metro)
subject surface form:
Vermont/Santa Monica station
subject surface form:
Los Angeles Metro D Line
subject surface form:
C Line (Los Angeles Metro)