OMNY
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OMNY is the contactless fare payment system used by New York City's public transit network, replacing the MetroCard with tap-and-go payments via cards, phones, and wearables.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OMNY canonical | 301 |
| OMNY contactless payment system | 5 |
| MTA New York City Subway fare system | 3 |
| OMNY card | 2 |
| OMNY contactless payment | 2 |
| OMNY (planned/partial) | 1 |
| OMNY cards | 1 |
| OMNY contactless fare payment system | 1 |
| OMNY contactless fare system | 1 |
| OMNY contactless system | 1 |
| OMNY fare system | 1 |
| OMNY mobile app | 1 |
| OMNY smart cards | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T168849 — 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: OMNY Context triple: [MetroCard, phasedOutInFavorOf, OMNY]
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A.
New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is one of the world’s largest and busiest rapid transit systems, serving the five boroughs of New York City with extensive 24/7 underground and elevated rail service.
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B.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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C.
M train
The M train is a New York City Subway service that runs through parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, connecting neighborhoods such as Middle Village and Forest Hills with Midtown and Lower Manhattan.
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D.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the public agency responsible for operating and overseeing much of the mass transit and commuter rail systems in the New York City metropolitan area.
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E.
L train
The L train is a New York City Subway service that runs crosstown along 14th Street in Manhattan and through Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn, known for its heavy ridership and role as a key connector between the boroughs.
- 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: OMNY Target entity description: OMNY is the contactless fare payment system used by New York City's public transit network, replacing the MetroCard with tap-and-go payments via cards, phones, and wearables.
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A.
New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is one of the world’s largest and busiest rapid transit systems, serving the five boroughs of New York City with extensive 24/7 underground and elevated rail service.
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B.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
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C.
M train
The M train is a New York City Subway service that runs through parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, connecting neighborhoods such as Middle Village and Forest Hills with Midtown and Lower Manhattan.
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D.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the public agency responsible for operating and overseeing much of the mass transit and commuter rail systems in the New York City metropolitan area.
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E.
L train
The L train is a New York City Subway service that runs crosstown along 14th Street in Manhattan and through Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn, known for its heavy ridership and role as a key connector between the boroughs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless fare payment system
ⓘ
fare collection system ⓘ public transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Long Island Rail Road
ⓘ
MTA New York City Bus ⓘ
surface form:
MTA Bus Company
MTA New York City Bus ⓘ
surface form:
MTA buses
Metro-North Railroad ⓘ New York City Subway ⓘ Staten Island Railway ⓘ Staten Island buses ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| goal |
enable contactless payments
ⓘ
modernize fare collection ⓘ replace MetroCard ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviationExpansion | One Metro New York ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
OMNY
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
OMNY cards
OMNY self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
OMNY mobile app
OMNY readers ⓘ back-end account system ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
account-based ticketing
ⓘ
contactless readers at turnstiles ⓘ contactless readers on buses ⓘ fare capping ⓘ online account management ⓘ reloadable fare card ⓘ tap-and-go payment ⓘ |
| inception | 2019 ⓘ |
| industry |
electronic payments
ⓘ
public transportation ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| operator |
New York City Transit Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
MTA New York City Transit
Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| replaces | MetroCard ⓘ |
| rolloutCompleted | around 2020s ⓘ |
| supportsPaymentMethod |
Apple Pay
ⓘ
Google Pay ⓘ OMNY card ⓘ Samsung Pay ⓘ contactless bank cards ⓘ credit cards ⓘ debit cards ⓘ mobile wallets ⓘ wearable devices ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
NFC
ⓘ
contactless smart card technology ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fare payment
ⓘ
public transit access control ⓘ |
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: OMNY Description of subject: OMNY is the contactless fare payment system used by New York City's public transit network, replacing the MetroCard with tap-and-go payments via cards, phones, and wearables.
Referenced by (321)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
OMNY contactless fare system
subject surface form:
Whitehall Street–South Ferry
subject surface form:
York Street
subject surface form:
66th Street–Lincoln Center
subject surface form:
Fifth Avenue–59th Street
subject surface form:
Bedford–Nostrand Avenues station
subject surface form:
East Broadway
subject surface form:
Forest Hills–71 Avenue station