TSI
E245783
TSI is a U.S. economic indicator that tracks the volume of freight and passenger transportation services to gauge activity in the transportation sector and broader economy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TSI canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2205918 — 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: TSI Context triple: [Transportation Services Index, abbreviation, TSI]
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A.
TISX
TISX is the ICAO airport code for Henry E. Rohlsen Airport on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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B.
TI
TI is a technology company best known for designing and manufacturing calculators, semiconductors, and various electronic components.
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C.
TIJ
TIJ is the IATA airport code for Tijuana International Airport in Tijuana, Mexico.
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D.
TS
TS is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Province of Trieste in northeastern Italy.
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E.
TS
TS is the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body responsible for implementing and verifying compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
- 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: TSI Target entity description: TSI is a U.S. economic indicator that tracks the volume of freight and passenger transportation services to gauge activity in the transportation sector and broader economy.
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A.
TISX
TISX is the ICAO airport code for Henry E. Rohlsen Airport on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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B.
TI
TI is a technology company best known for designing and manufacturing calculators, semiconductors, and various electronic components.
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C.
TIJ
TIJ is the IATA airport code for Tijuana International Airport in Tijuana, Mexico.
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D.
TS
TS is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Province of Trieste in northeastern Italy.
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E.
TS
TS is the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body responsible for implementing and verifying compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. economic time series
ⓘ
economic indicator ⓘ transportation index ⓘ |
| adjustment |
seasonally adjusted series available
ⓘ
unadjusted series available ⓘ |
| baseValue | 100 ⓘ |
| category |
macroeconomic statistics
ⓘ
transportation statistics ⓘ |
| compiledBy |
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataSource |
freight transportation data
ⓘ
multiple transportation modes ⓘ passenger transportation data ⓘ |
| dataType | index ⓘ |
| focus | physical volume of services rather than prices ⓘ |
| frequency | monthly ⓘ |
| fullName | Transportation Services Index ⓘ |
| geographicScope | national-level indicator for the United States ⓘ |
| includes |
freight TSI
ⓘ
passenger TSI ⓘ |
| indicatorType |
coincident indicator of transportation activity
ⓘ
indicator of real transportation output ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
ⓘ
surface form:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
|
| measures |
freight transportation activity
ⓘ
passenger transportation activity ⓘ volume of transportation services ⓘ |
| modeCoverage |
air transportation
ⓘ
pipeline transportation ⓘ rail transportation ⓘ transit and other passenger modes ⓘ truck transportation ⓘ water transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Federal Statistical System
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. federal statistical system
|
| publisher |
United States Department of Transportation
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Transportation
|
| relatedTo |
U.S. business cycle turning points
ⓘ
gross domestic product of the United States ⓘ |
| sectorCovered | transportation sector ⓘ |
| timeCoverage | historical time series ⓘ |
| unit | index (base year = 100) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
business cycle analysis
ⓘ
economic analysis ⓘ gauging activity in the broader economy ⓘ gauging activity in the transportation sector ⓘ leading indicator research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bts.gov/tsi ⓘ |
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: TSI Description of subject: TSI is a U.S. economic indicator that tracks the volume of freight and passenger transportation services to gauge activity in the transportation sector and broader economy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.