Aurora Transportation Center
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Aurora Transportation Center is a major commuter rail and bus hub in Aurora, Illinois, serving as the western terminus for Metra’s BNSF Railway Line and a key regional transit center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aurora Transportation Center canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1295266 — 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: Aurora Transportation Center Context triple: [Metra BNSF Railway Line, usesStation, Aurora Transportation Center]
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A.
Arrott Transportation Center
Arrott Transportation Center is a major public transit hub in Philadelphia that serves as an important connection point for subway and bus routes in the city’s Frankford neighborhood.
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B.
Gateway Transit Center
Gateway Transit Center is a major multimodal transit hub in Portland, Oregon, serving light rail, buses, and other regional connections.
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C.
Darby Transportation Center
Darby Transportation Center is a public transit hub in Darby, Pennsylvania, serving as a key interchange point for SEPTA trolley and bus services.
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D.
Gresham Central Transit Center
Gresham Central Transit Center is a major public transportation hub in Gresham, Oregon, serving as a key stop on the MAX Light Rail system and connecting multiple bus routes.
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E.
Rose Quarter Transit Center
Rose Quarter Transit Center is a major public transit hub in Portland, Oregon, serving multiple MAX light rail lines and bus routes near the city’s Rose Quarter sports and entertainment district.
- 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: Aurora Transportation Center Target entity description: Aurora Transportation Center is a major commuter rail and bus hub in Aurora, Illinois, serving as the western terminus for Metra’s BNSF Railway Line and a key regional transit center.
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A.
Arrott Transportation Center
Arrott Transportation Center is a major public transit hub in Philadelphia that serves as an important connection point for subway and bus routes in the city’s Frankford neighborhood.
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B.
Gateway Transit Center
Gateway Transit Center is a major multimodal transit hub in Portland, Oregon, serving light rail, buses, and other regional connections.
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C.
Darby Transportation Center
Darby Transportation Center is a public transit hub in Darby, Pennsylvania, serving as a key interchange point for SEPTA trolley and bus services.
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D.
Gresham Central Transit Center
Gresham Central Transit Center is a major public transportation hub in Gresham, Oregon, serving as a key stop on the MAX Light Rail system and connecting multiple bus routes.
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E.
Rose Quarter Transit Center
Rose Quarter Transit Center is a major public transit hub in Portland, Oregon, serving multiple MAX light rail lines and bus routes near the city’s Rose Quarter sports and entertainment district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Metra station
ⓘ
bus station ⓘ commuter rail station ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| accessible | yes ⓘ |
| bicycleFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| busOperator | Pace Suburban Bus ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Aurora, Illinois
ⓘ
Bus stations in Illinois ⓘ Metra BNSF Railway stations ⓘ Railway stations in Kane County, Illinois ⓘ |
| city | Aurora, Illinois ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Chicago Union Station
ⓘ
Downtown Chicago area ⓘ
surface form:
downtown Chicago
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystem | Metra zone-based fare system ⓘ |
| formerRailroad | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ⓘ |
| hasBusBays | yes ⓘ |
| hasService | Pace bus routes ⓘ |
| hasShelters | yes ⓘ |
| hasTicketOffice | yes ⓘ |
| hasWaitingRoom | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aurora, Illinois
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ Kane County, Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| metraZone | Zone F ⓘ |
| near |
Fox River
ⓘ
downtown Aurora ⓘ |
| openedAsTransportationCenter | late 20th century ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Metra ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Aurora, Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Aurora
|
| parkAndRide | yes ⓘ |
| parkingAvailable | yes ⓘ |
| platforms | island platform ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commuter transportation ⓘ |
| railLine |
BNSF Railway Monticello Subdivision
ⓘ
surface form:
BNSF Railway Line
|
| railLineTerminusOf | Metra BNSF Railway Line ⓘ |
| servedBy | Metra BNSF Railway Line ⓘ |
| servesAs |
bus hub
ⓘ
commuter rail hub ⓘ regional transit center ⓘ western terminus of Metra’s BNSF Railway Line ⓘ |
| servesPopulation | western suburbs of Chicago ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| structureType | at-grade station ⓘ |
| timezone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| tracks | 3 ⓘ |
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: Aurora Transportation Center Description of subject: Aurora Transportation Center is a major commuter rail and bus hub in Aurora, Illinois, serving as the western terminus for Metra’s BNSF Railway Line and a key regional transit center.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.