IC Bus
E211960
IC Bus is an American manufacturer of school and commercial buses, known for producing yellow school buses commonly used across North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IC Bus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909627 — 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: IC Bus Context triple: [Traton SE, brandPortfolio, IC Bus]
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A.
Cbus
Cbus is a common nickname for Columbus, the capital and largest city of Ohio.
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B.
Multibus
Multibus is an early Intel-developed computer bus standard widely used in 1980s workstations and embedded systems for modular expansion and peripheral connectivity.
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C.
I2C
I2C is a widely used two-wire serial communication bus that enables simple, low-speed data exchange between microcontrollers and peripheral devices on the same circuit board.
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D.
NuBus
NuBus is a 32-bit, processor-independent expansion bus standard widely used in late-1980s and early-1990s workstations and personal computers, including many Apple Macintosh systems.
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E.
Zigbee
Zigbee is a low-power, wireless mesh networking standard commonly used for home automation and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- 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: IC Bus Target entity description: IC Bus is an American manufacturer of school and commercial buses, known for producing yellow school buses commonly used across North America.
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A.
Cbus
Cbus is a common nickname for Columbus, the capital and largest city of Ohio.
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B.
Multibus
Multibus is an early Intel-developed computer bus standard widely used in 1980s workstations and embedded systems for modular expansion and peripheral connectivity.
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C.
I2C
I2C is a widely used two-wire serial communication bus that enables simple, low-speed data exchange between microcontrollers and peripheral devices on the same circuit board.
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D.
NuBus
NuBus is a 32-bit, processor-independent expansion bus standard widely used in late-1980s and early-1990s workstations and personal computers, including many Apple Macintosh systems.
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E.
Zigbee
Zigbee is a low-power, wireless mesh networking standard commonly used for home automation and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus manufacturer
ⓘ
company ⓘ |
| brandOf |
Navistar International Corporation
ⓘ
surface form:
Navistar International
|
| chassisSupplier |
Navistar International Corporation
ⓘ
surface form:
Navistar International
|
| colorStandard | National School Bus Glossy Yellow ⓘ |
| compliesWith | North American school bus safety standards ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designFeature | integrated body and chassis design ⓘ |
| engineSupplier |
Navistar International Corporation
ⓘ
surface form:
Navistar International
|
| focusesOn | student transportation safety ⓘ |
| formerName | IC Corporation ⓘ |
| hasModel |
IC AE Series
ⓘ
IC BE Series ⓘ IC CE Series ⓘ IC FE Series ⓘ IC RE Series ⓘ |
| hasServiceNetworkIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| headquartersLocation | Lisle, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
automotive industry
ⓘ
bus manufacturing ⓘ |
| knownFor | yellow school buses used across North America ⓘ |
| marketSegment |
commercial passenger transport
ⓘ
school transportation ⓘ |
| offers | electric school buses ⓘ |
| operatingArea |
Canada
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ North America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| owner |
Navistar International Corporation
ⓘ
surface form:
Navistar International
|
| parentCompany |
Navistar International Corporation
ⓘ
surface form:
Navistar International
|
| product |
activity bus
ⓘ
commercial bus ⓘ conventional school bus ⓘ school bus ⓘ shuttle bus ⓘ transit-style school bus ⓘ |
| usesFuelType |
diesel
ⓘ
electric power ⓘ gasoline ⓘ propane ⓘ |
| vehicleCategory |
heavy-duty vehicles
ⓘ
medium-duty vehicles ⓘ |
| vehicleTypeProduced |
Type B school bus
ⓘ
Type C school bus ⓘ Type D school bus ⓘ |
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: IC Bus Description of subject: IC Bus is an American manufacturer of school and commercial buses, known for producing yellow school buses commonly used across North America.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Traton SE