Metro Busway
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Metro Busway is Los Angeles County’s network of high-capacity, bus rapid transit corridors designed to provide faster, more reliable service than regular local bus lines.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metro Busway canonical | 4 |
| Metro Busway services | 1 |
| Metro Orange Line Busway | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1941895 — 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: Metro Busway Context triple: [Metro J Line, branding, Metro Busway]
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A.
Macrobús bus rapid transit system
The Macrobús bus rapid transit system is a high-capacity, dedicated-lane bus network serving the Guadalajara metropolitan area in Mexico as part of its integrated public transit system.
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B.
Metrobus
Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
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C.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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D.
Rea Vaya bus rapid transit
Rea Vaya bus rapid transit is a bus rapid transit system in Johannesburg, South Africa, designed to provide fast, reliable public transport along dedicated lanes connecting major areas including Soweto and the city center.
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E.
Metro Express
Metro Express is a faster, limited-stop service operated as part of the broader Metro Bus public transportation system.
- 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: Metro Busway Target entity description: Metro Busway is Los Angeles County’s network of high-capacity, bus rapid transit corridors designed to provide faster, more reliable service than regular local bus lines.
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A.
Macrobús bus rapid transit system
The Macrobús bus rapid transit system is a high-capacity, dedicated-lane bus network serving the Guadalajara metropolitan area in Mexico as part of its integrated public transit system.
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B.
Metrobus
Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
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C.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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D.
Rea Vaya bus rapid transit
Rea Vaya bus rapid transit is a bus rapid transit system in Johannesburg, South Africa, designed to provide fast, reliable public transport along dedicated lanes connecting major areas including Soweto and the city center.
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E.
Metro Express
Metro Express is a faster, limited-stop service operated as part of the broader Metro Bus public transportation system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus rapid transit system
ⓘ
public transportation network ⓘ |
| branding | orange square BRT symbol on maps ⓘ |
| category |
Bus rapid transit in California
ⓘ
Metro Busway (Los Angeles) ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Metro Busway lines
Public transportation in Los Angeles County, California ⓘ |
| fareSystem | Metro fare system ⓘ |
| formerName | Metro Liner ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
G Line
ⓘ
J Line ⓘ Metro Busway stations ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
accessible vehicles
ⓘ
frequent all-day service ⓘ level boarding at many stations ⓘ limited stops ⓘ |
| hasRouteDesignation |
G Line
ⓘ
J Line ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
Los Angeles Metro Rail
ⓘ
Metro Local ⓘ
surface form:
Metro local bus network
|
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles County ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operator | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| owner | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| partOf |
Los Angeles Metro bus lines
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Metro bus system
|
| purpose |
provide faster service than local bus lines
ⓘ
provide more reliable service than local bus lines ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Greater Los Angeles Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Los Angeles area
|
| serves |
Downtown Los Angeles
ⓘ
Harbor Gateway ⓘ San Fernando Valley ⓘ San Pedro ⓘ South Los Angeles region ⓘ
surface form:
South Los Angeles
|
| serviceType |
bus rapid transit
ⓘ
high-capacity bus service ⓘ |
| shortName | Metro Busway self-link ⓘ |
| ticketing | TAP card ⓘ |
| uses |
dedicated busways
ⓘ
managed freeway lanes ⓘ off-board fare payment on some stations ⓘ transit signal priority ⓘ |
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: Metro Busway Description of subject: Metro Busway is Los Angeles County’s network of high-capacity, bus rapid transit corridors designed to provide faster, more reliable service than regular local bus lines.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Metro Orange Line Busway
this entity surface form:
Metro Busway services