Madison Metro
E379260
Madison Metro is the primary public bus transit system serving the city of Madison, Wisconsin and its surrounding communities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madison Metro canonical | 1 |
| Madison Metro Transit | 1 |
| Metro Transit (Madison) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3686320 — 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: Madison Metro Context triple: [Camp Randall Stadium, publicTransit, Madison Metro]
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A.
Metra
Metra is the commuter rail system serving the Chicago metropolitan area, operating extensive routes that connect the city with its surrounding suburbs.
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B.
Milwaukee County Transit System
Milwaukee County Transit System is the primary public bus network serving Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, providing local and express transit services throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
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C.
STL Metro
STL Metro is a public transit system serving the St. Louis metropolitan area with buses and light rail services.
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D.
Sangamon Mass Transit District
Sangamon Mass Transit District is the primary public bus transportation agency serving Springfield and surrounding areas in Sangamon County, Illinois.
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E.
Metra Heritage Corridor
The Metra Heritage Corridor is a commuter rail line in the Chicago metropolitan area that provides weekday service between Chicago Union Station and Joliet, Illinois, largely following the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal corridor.
- 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: Madison Metro Target entity description: Madison Metro is the primary public bus transit system serving the city of Madison, Wisconsin and its surrounding communities.
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A.
Metra
Metra is the commuter rail system serving the Chicago metropolitan area, operating extensive routes that connect the city with its surrounding suburbs.
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B.
Milwaukee County Transit System
Milwaukee County Transit System is the primary public bus network serving Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, providing local and express transit services throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
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C.
STL Metro
STL Metro is a public transit system serving the St. Louis metropolitan area with buses and light rail services.
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D.
Sangamon Mass Transit District
Sangamon Mass Transit District is the primary public bus transportation agency serving Springfield and surrounding areas in Sangamon County, Illinois.
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E.
Metra Heritage Corridor
The Metra Heritage Corridor is a commuter rail line in the Chicago metropolitan area that provides weekday service between Chicago Union Station and Joliet, Illinois, largely following the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus transit system
ⓘ
public transit agency ⓘ |
| acceptsFareMedium |
cash
ⓘ
passes ⓘ transit cards ⓘ |
| alsoServes |
Cottage Grove, Wisconsin
ⓘ
Fitchburg, Wisconsin ⓘ Maple Bluff, Wisconsin ⓘ McFarland, Wisconsin ⓘ Middleton, Wisconsin ⓘ Monona, Wisconsin ⓘ Other surrounding communities in Dane County ⓘ Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin ⓘ Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Verona, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystem | paid fare system ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
fare revenue
ⓘ
federal transit funding ⓘ local government funding ⓘ state transit funding ⓘ |
| governedBy | Madison Common Council ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.cityofmadison.com/metro ⓘ |
| hasService |
peak-hour commuter service
ⓘ
weekday service ⓘ weekend service ⓘ |
| hasServiceFeature |
bike racks on buses
ⓘ
scheduled routes and timetables ⓘ wheelchair accessibility ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Madison, Wisconsin
|
| implements | regional bus network for Madison metropolitan area ⓘ |
| industry | public transportation ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operatedBy | City of Madison ⓘ |
| owner | City of Madison ⓘ |
| primaryServiceArea | City of Madison ⓘ |
| providesServiceTo |
Madison metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Wisconsin–Madison area
downtown Madison ⓘ major employment centers in Madison ⓘ residential neighborhoods in Madison ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Madison, Wisconsin
|
| servesRegion | Dane County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
fixed-route bus service
ⓘ
paratransit service ⓘ |
| usesFuelType |
diesel
ⓘ
electric buses ⓘ hybrid diesel-electric ⓘ |
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: Madison Metro Description of subject: Madison Metro is the primary public bus transit system serving the city of Madison, Wisconsin and its surrounding communities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
this entity surface form:
Madison Metro Transit
this entity surface form:
Metro Transit (Madison)