Big Blue Bus
E384340
Big Blue Bus is the public transit bus service operated by the City of Santa Monica, California, providing local and regional routes across the Westside of Los Angeles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Blue Bus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3746040 — 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: Big Blue Bus Context triple: [Culver CityBus, connectsWith, Big Blue Bus]
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A.
Coastin'
"Coastin'" is an R&B song by American singer-songwriter Victoria Monét, known for its smooth, summery groove and sensual, laid-back vibe.
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B.
Hitchin’ a Ride
"Hitchin’ a Ride" is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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C.
Night Bus
Night Bus is the short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams that served as the literary basis for the classic 1934 romantic comedy film "It Happened One Night."
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D.
Heigh Ho
Heigh Ho is a critically acclaimed 2014 studio album by American musician and producer Blake Mills, noted for its intricate guitar work and genre-blending songwriting.
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E.
Yellow Brick Road
Yellow Brick Road is the iconic golden pathway in L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories that leads travelers, including Dorothy, toward the Emerald City and symbolizes the journey of adventure and self-discovery.
- 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: Big Blue Bus Target entity description: Big Blue Bus is the public transit bus service operated by the City of Santa Monica, California, providing local and regional routes across the Westside of Los Angeles.
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A.
Coastin'
"Coastin'" is an R&B song by American singer-songwriter Victoria Monét, known for its smooth, summery groove and sensual, laid-back vibe.
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B.
Hitchin’ a Ride
"Hitchin’ a Ride" is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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C.
Night Bus
Night Bus is the short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams that served as the literary basis for the classic 1934 romantic comedy film "It Happened One Night."
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D.
Heigh Ho
Heigh Ho is a critically acclaimed 2014 studio album by American musician and producer Blake Mills, noted for its intricate guitar work and genre-blending songwriting.
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E.
Yellow Brick Road
Yellow Brick Road is the iconic golden pathway in L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories that leads travelers, including Dorothy, toward the Emerald City and symbolizes the journey of adventure and self-discovery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus operator
ⓘ
public transit agency ⓘ public transportation system ⓘ |
| category |
Bus transportation in California
ⓘ
Public transportation in Los Angeles County, California ⓘ Santa Monica, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Monica, California
|
| color | blue ⓘ |
| connectsWith |
Culver CityBus
ⓘ
Los Angeles Metro Rail stations ⓘ Los Angeles Metro bus lines ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Metro bus system
Santa Monica Downtown station ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Monica Metro E Line terminus
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareMediaAccepted |
contactless transit cards
ⓘ
mobile ticketing ⓘ |
| fareSystem | flat fare system ⓘ |
| fleetType | fixed-route buses ⓘ |
| fuelType | compressed natural gas ⓘ |
| governmentJurisdiction |
Santa Monica
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Santa Monica
|
| hasFeature |
bike racks on buses
ⓘ
wheelchair accessible buses ⓘ |
| hasRouteType |
commuter routes
ⓘ
crosstown routes ⓘ downtown circulator routes ⓘ |
| hasService |
peak-hour service
ⓘ
weekday service ⓘ weekend service ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.bigbluebus.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Santa Monica, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Monica, California
|
| locatedIn |
Santa Monica, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Monica, California
|
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| offers |
express routes
ⓘ
local routes ⓘ rapid routes ⓘ university-oriented routes ⓘ |
| operatesInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| operator |
Santa Monica
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Santa Monica
|
| ownedBy |
Santa Monica
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Santa Monica
|
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| region |
Los Angeles County
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles County, California
|
| serviceArea |
Culver City area
ⓘ
Santa Monica ⓘ UCLA area ⓘ Westwood, Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
West Los Angeles
Westside of Los Angeles ⓘ |
| serviceType |
local bus service
ⓘ
regional bus service ⓘ |
| uses | compressed natural gas buses ⓘ |
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: Big Blue Bus Description of subject: Big Blue Bus is the public transit bus service operated by the City of Santa Monica, California, providing local and regional routes across the Westside of Los Angeles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Line 7 (Culver CityBus)