MTAB
E297972
MTAB is the operator code used to identify the MTA New York City Bus division within the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s transit operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MTAB canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2764741 — 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: MTAB Context triple: [MTA New York City Bus, hasOperatorCode, MTAB]
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A.
MAB
MAB is a German bibliographic data format used for cataloging and exchanging library records, closely related to and historically aligned with MARC standards.
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B.
MTPD
MTPD is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s transit system, including Metrorail and Metrobus.
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C.
MTD
MTD is the public bus transit agency serving the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area in Illinois.
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D.
.mt
.mt is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Malta for use on the internet.
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E.
MATE
MATE is a lightweight, traditional-style desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, derived from GNOME 2 and focused on simplicity and low resource usage.
- 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: MTAB Target entity description: MTAB is the operator code used to identify the MTA New York City Bus division within the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s transit operations.
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A.
MAB
MAB is a German bibliographic data format used for cataloging and exchanging library records, closely related to and historically aligned with MARC standards.
-
B.
MTPD
MTPD is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s transit system, including Metrorail and Metrobus.
-
C.
MTD
MTD is the public bus transit agency serving the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area in Illinois.
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D.
.mt
.mt is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Malta for use on the internet.
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E.
MATE
MATE is a lightweight, traditional-style desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, derived from GNOME 2 and focused on simplicity and low resource usage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
organizational identifier
ⓘ
transit operator code ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
New York City bus services
ⓘ
bus operations ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
MTA New York City Bus
ⓘ
surface form:
MTA Bus Company
MTA New York City Bus ⓘ
surface form:
New York City Transit bus network
|
| codeType | operator code ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distinguishesFrom | other MTA operating divisions ⓘ |
| fullName | MTA Bus Company operator code ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board
|
| hasAbbreviation | MTAB self-link ⓘ |
| identifies |
MTA New York City Bus
ⓘ
surface form:
MTA New York City Bus division
|
| jurisdiction | New York City ⓘ |
| mode | bus ⓘ |
| organizationTypeIdentified | public transit operator division ⓘ |
| partOfSystem | MTA internal coding system ⓘ |
| sector | public transportation ⓘ |
| usedBy |
New York City Transit Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
MTA New York City Transit
Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| usedFor |
MTA New York City Bus
ⓘ
surface form:
MTA New York City Bus division
administrative classification ⓘ internal reporting ⓘ operations management ⓘ |
| usedIn | MTA transit operations ⓘ |
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: MTAB Description of subject: MTAB is the operator code used to identify the MTA New York City Bus division within the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s transit operations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.