ORCA
E211950
ORCA is a regional smart transit card system used for paying fares across multiple public transportation agencies in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ORCA canonical | 9 |
| ORCA Joint Board | 2 |
| ORCA business products | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909477 — 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: ORCA Context triple: [International District/Chinatown Station, fareSystem, ORCA]
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A.
Orcines
Orcines is a commune in central France’s Puy-de-Dôme department, known for its proximity to the Chaîne des Puys volcanic range.
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B.
Orr
Orr is a surname of Scottish origin most famously associated with legendary Canadian ice hockey defenseman Bobby Orr.
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C.
Orca (Quint's boat)
Orca is the small fishing boat owned by shark hunter Quint in the film "Jaws," used for the perilous hunt for the great white shark.
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D.
ORC
ORC (Optimized Row Columnar) is a highly efficient, columnar storage file format commonly used in big data systems to enable fast analytics and compression.
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E.
Orma
Orma is a major dialect of the Oromo language spoken primarily by the Orma people of Kenya.
- 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: ORCA Target entity description: ORCA is a regional smart transit card system used for paying fares across multiple public transportation agencies in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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A.
Orcines
Orcines is a commune in central France’s Puy-de-Dôme department, known for its proximity to the Chaîne des Puys volcanic range.
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B.
Orr
Orr is a surname of Scottish origin most famously associated with legendary Canadian ice hockey defenseman Bobby Orr.
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C.
Orca (Quint's boat)
Orca is the small fishing boat owned by shark hunter Quint in the film "Jaws," used for the perilous hunt for the great white shark.
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D.
ORC
ORC (Optimized Row Columnar) is a highly efficient, columnar storage file format commonly used in big data systems to enable fast analytics and compression.
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E.
Orma
Orma is a major dialect of the Oromo language spoken primarily by the Orma people of Kenya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
public transit payment system ⓘ smart card fare collection system ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareMedium |
stored electronic value
ⓘ
time-based passes ⓘ |
| fullName | One Regional Card for All ⓘ |
| governingBody | ORCA Joint Board ⓘ |
| hasCardType |
ORCA card
ⓘ
surface form:
ORCA LIFT card
ORCA card ⓘ
surface form:
ORCA RRFP card
ORCA card ⓘ
surface form:
ORCA adult card
ORCA youth card ⓘ |
| hasUpgrade | Next Generation ORCA ⓘ |
| launched | 2009-04-20 ⓘ |
| nextGenerationFeature |
mobile app payment
ⓘ
online account management ⓘ virtual card in mobile wallet ⓘ |
| nextGenerationLaunch | 2022 ⓘ |
| operatesInRegion | Puget Sound region ⓘ |
| operatesInState | Washington ⓘ |
| operatorAgency |
Community Transit
ⓘ
Everett Transit ⓘ King County Metro ⓘ Kitsap Transit ⓘ Pierce Transit ⓘ Sound Transit ⓘ Washington State Ferries ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | tap-on readers at stations and on vehicles ⓘ |
| previousWebsite | https://www.orcacard.com/ ⓘ |
| replacedSystem |
PugetPass
ⓘ
various paper transfer systems ⓘ |
| supportsFareCategory |
adult fares
ⓘ
disability fares ⓘ low-income fares ⓘ reduced fares ⓘ senior fares ⓘ youth fares ⓘ |
| supportsProductType |
agency-specific passes
ⓘ
monthly passes ⓘ regional passes ⓘ stored value (e-purse) ⓘ |
| technologyType | contactless RFID smart card ⓘ |
| usedFor | public transit fare payment ⓘ |
| usedOn |
buses
ⓘ
commuter rail ⓘ ferries ⓘ light rail ⓘ streetcars ⓘ vanpools ⓘ |
| website | https://www.myorca.com/ ⓘ |
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: ORCA Description of subject: ORCA is a regional smart transit card system used for paying fares across multiple public transportation agencies in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
International District/Chinatown Station
this entity surface form:
ORCA Joint Board
subject surface form:
Angle Lake station
this entity surface form:
ORCA business products