TransLink card
E193026
The TransLink card was a contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area before being succeeded by the Clipper card.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TransLink card canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1741443 — 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: TransLink card Context triple: [Clipper card, replaces, TransLink card]
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A.
ORCA card
The ORCA card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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B.
Opal card
The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
TAP card
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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D.
Myki
Myki is Melbourne’s contactless smartcard public transport ticketing system used across trains, trams, and buses in Victoria, Australia.
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E.
Oyster card
The Oyster card is a rechargeable smartcard used for convenient, cashless payment on public transport services across London.
- 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: TransLink card Target entity description: The TransLink card was a contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area before being succeeded by the Clipper card.
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A.
ORCA card
The ORCA card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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B.
Opal card
The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
TAP card
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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D.
Myki
Myki is Melbourne’s contactless smartcard public transport ticketing system used across trains, trams, and buses in Victoria, Australia.
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E.
Oyster card
The Oyster card is a rechargeable smartcard used for convenient, cashless payment on public transport services across London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
public transit fare card ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareCollectionSystem | electronic fare collection ⓘ |
| fareMediumFor |
buses in the San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
ferries in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ rail systems in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| feature |
contactless tap-on validation
ⓘ
reloadable stored value ⓘ support for transit passes ⓘ |
| industry | public transportation ⓘ |
| mediaType | plastic card ⓘ |
| operatedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | stored-value fare payment ⓘ |
| predecessorOf |
Clipper card
ⓘ
surface form:
Clipper card system
|
| regionServed |
AC Transit service area
ⓘ
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) service area ⓘ San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) service area ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Clipper card ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| successorSystemBranding | Clipper ⓘ |
| technology | contactless smart card technology ⓘ |
| usedBy | commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| usedFor | fare payment ⓘ |
| usedOn | public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay 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: TransLink card Description of subject: The TransLink card was a contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area before being succeeded by the Clipper card.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.