Golden Gate Transit
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Golden Gate Transit is a regional public bus and ferry system serving the North Bay and San Francisco in California.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Golden Gate Transit canonical | 14 |
| Golden Gate Ferry | 4 |
| Golden Gate Transit bus service | 3 |
| Golden Gate Ferry services | 1 |
| Golden Gate Transit (select routes) | 1 |
| Golden Gate Transit bus services | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1741453 — 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: Golden Gate Transit Context triple: [Clipper card, usedOn, Golden Gate Transit]
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A.
San Francisco Muni
San Francisco Muni is the primary public transportation system in San Francisco, operating the city’s network of buses, light rail, historic streetcars, and cable cars.
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B.
San Francisco Bay Ferry
San Francisco Bay Ferry is a public ferry service that operates passenger routes across the San Francisco Bay, connecting various waterfront cities and transit hubs in the Bay Area.
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C.
AC Transit
AC Transit is a public bus agency serving the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, providing local and transbay bus services.
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D.
BART
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is a major rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area, linking cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley with surrounding suburbs and regional transit networks.
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E.
Sacramento Regional Transit
Sacramento Regional Transit is the public transportation agency serving the Sacramento, California metropolitan area with light rail and bus services.
- 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: Golden Gate Transit Target entity description: Golden Gate Transit is a regional public bus and ferry system serving the North Bay and San Francisco in California.
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A.
San Francisco Muni
San Francisco Muni is the primary public transportation system in San Francisco, operating the city’s network of buses, light rail, historic streetcars, and cable cars.
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B.
San Francisco Bay Ferry
San Francisco Bay Ferry is a public ferry service that operates passenger routes across the San Francisco Bay, connecting various waterfront cities and transit hubs in the Bay Area.
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C.
AC Transit
AC Transit is a public bus agency serving the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, providing local and transbay bus services.
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D.
BART
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is a major rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area, linking cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley with surrounding suburbs and regional transit networks.
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E.
Sacramento Regional Transit
Sacramento Regional Transit is the public transportation agency serving the Sacramento, California metropolitan area with light rail and bus services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus operator
ⓘ
ferry operator ⓘ public transportation agency ⓘ |
| connects |
Golden Gate Bridge
ⓘ
North Bay ⓘ Civic Center, San Francisco ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Civic Center
Financial District (San Francisco) ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Financial District
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystem | Clipper card ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.goldengate.org ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Rafael
ⓘ
surface form:
San Rafael, California
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport |
motor bus
ⓘ
passenger ferry ⓘ |
| operates |
commuter bus routes
ⓘ
ferry service ⓘ regional bus service ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| operatesRoute |
commuter routes across the Golden Gate Bridge
ⓘ
regional routes between Marin and Sonoma counties ⓘ routes between North Bay communities and San Francisco ⓘ |
| owner | Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North Bay
ⓘ
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| serves |
Contra Costa County
ⓘ
Marin County ⓘ Napa County ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ Sonoma County, California ⓘ
surface form:
Sonoma County
|
| transitType |
bus
ⓘ
ferry ⓘ |
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: Golden Gate Transit Description of subject: Golden Gate Transit is a regional public bus and ferry system serving the North Bay and San Francisco in California.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Ferry
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Ferry services
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Ferry
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Transit bus services
subject surface form:
Civic Center/UN Plaza station
subject surface form:
San Rafael, California
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Transit bus service
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Ferry
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Transit bus service
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Transit (select routes)
this entity surface form:
Golden Gate Transit bus service