EBT card
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An EBT card is a government-issued electronic payment card used by eligible individuals to access and spend their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2435939 — 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: EBT card Context triple: [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, benefitMedium, EBT card]
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A.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Breeze Card
The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
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C.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a U.S. federal assistance program that provides low-income individuals and families with monthly benefits to purchase food and improve their nutritional security.
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D.
SNAP
SNAP is the stock ticker symbol for Snap Inc., the American technology and social media company best known for its Snapchat messaging app.
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E.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- 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: EBT card Target entity description: An EBT card is a government-issued electronic payment card used by eligible individuals to access and spend their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits.
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A.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Breeze Card
The Breeze Card is a reusable smart fare card used for paying transit fares across the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system in Atlanta, Georgia.
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C.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a U.S. federal assistance program that provides low-income individuals and families with monthly benefits to purchase food and improve their nutritional security.
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D.
SNAP
SNAP is the stock ticker symbol for Snap Inc., the American technology and social media company best known for its Snapchat messaging app.
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E.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electronic benefit transfer card
ⓘ
government-issued card ⓘ payment card ⓘ |
| acceptedAt |
authorized SNAP retailers
ⓘ
grocery stores ⓘ some farmers markets ⓘ supermarkets ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
ATMs for certain cash benefits
ⓘ
point-of-sale terminals ⓘ |
| administeredBy | state governments in the United States ⓘ |
| allows | tracking of benefit usage ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
EBT card
ⓘ
surface form:
SNAP card
food stamp card ⓘ |
| balanceUpdated | monthly ⓘ |
| benefitProgram |
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
ⓘ
some state cash assistance programs ⓘ |
| benefitType | nutrition assistance ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designedFor |
low-income households
ⓘ
low-income individuals ⓘ |
| eligibilityDeterminedBy | state SNAP agencies ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
federal government of the United States
|
| goal |
improving access to food
ⓘ
reducing fraud in benefit distribution ⓘ reducing hunger ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| legalStatus | non-transferable benefit card ⓘ |
| notAcceptedFor |
alcohol purchases
ⓘ
hot prepared foods in most cases ⓘ non-food household items ⓘ tobacco purchases ⓘ |
| ownership | issued to eligible beneficiaries ⓘ |
| partOf |
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
ⓘ
electronic benefit transfer system ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
Food and Nutrition Service
ⓘ
United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| replacedBy | chip-enabled EBT cards in some states ⓘ |
| replaces | paper food stamps ⓘ |
| requires | personal identification number ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
PIN protection
ⓘ
electronic transaction records ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
PIN-based authentication
ⓘ
magnetic stripe ⓘ |
| transactionType | debit-style transaction ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accessing SNAP benefits
ⓘ
electronic distribution of public assistance ⓘ purchasing eligible food items ⓘ redeeming Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits ⓘ |
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: EBT card Description of subject: An EBT card is a government-issued electronic payment card used by eligible individuals to access and spend their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SNAP card