FAST
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FAST is a U.S. federal law that authorizes long-term funding and policy for the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure, including highways, transit, and rail.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FAST canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5441551 — 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: FAST Context triple: [Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, hasAbbreviation, FAST]
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A.
Fastiv
Fastiv is a historic city in northern Ukraine known as a regional railway hub and industrial center southwest of Kyiv.
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B.
Quick
Quick is the fast-talking, street-smart protagonist played by Eddie Murphy in the 1989 crime-comedy film "Harlem Nights."
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C.
Speedy
Speedy is a 1928 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, known for its energetic New York City setting and memorable Coney Island and baseball sequences.
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D.
FPS
FPS is the abbreviation for the Federal Protective Service, a U.S. agency responsible for protecting federal government facilities and their occupants.
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E.
Fast Life
"Fast Life" is a hip-hop track by American rapper Paul Wall that showcases his signature Southern rap style and themes of hustle and street luxury.
- 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: FAST Target entity description: FAST is a U.S. federal law that authorizes long-term funding and policy for the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure, including highways, transit, and rail.
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A.
Fastiv
Fastiv is a historic city in northern Ukraine known as a regional railway hub and industrial center southwest of Kyiv.
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B.
Quick
Quick is the fast-talking, street-smart protagonist played by Eddie Murphy in the 1989 crime-comedy film "Harlem Nights."
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C.
Speedy
Speedy is a 1928 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, known for its energetic New York City setting and memorable Coney Island and baseball sequences.
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D.
FPS
FPS is the abbreviation for the Federal Protective Service, a U.S. agency responsible for protecting federal government facilities and their occupants.
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E.
Fast Life
"Fast Life" is a hip-hop track by American rapper Paul Wall that showcases his signature Southern rap style and themes of hustle and street luxury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States federal law ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Federal Highway Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Federal Railroad Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ Federal Transit Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | FAST NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amends |
Title 23 of the United States Code
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Title 49 of the United States Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
highways
ⓘ
public transit ⓘ rail transportation ⓘ surface transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| authorizes | long-term funding for surface transportation programs ⓘ |
| authorizesSpending | over 300 billion US dollars ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| effectiveDate | 2015-10-01 ⓘ |
| enacted | 2015 ⓘ |
| establishes |
National Highway Freight Program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expirationDate | 2020-09-30 ⓘ |
| fullName | Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fundingPeriodEnd | fiscal year 2020 ⓘ |
| fundingPeriodStart | fiscal year 2016 ⓘ |
| goal |
enhance transportation system performance
ⓘ
improve safety of surface transportation ⓘ maintain and improve transportation infrastructure condition ⓘ reduce congestion ⓘ support economic growth ⓘ support freight movement ⓘ |
| includes |
provisions for highway safety programs
ⓘ
provisions for passenger rail reform ⓘ provisions for transit capital investment grants ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States Congress ⓘ |
| predecessor | Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorAbbreviation | MAP-21 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicLawNumber | Public Law 114-94 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulates | surface transportation policy ⓘ |
| replaces | short-term transportation funding extensions ⓘ |
| signedBy | Barack Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signingDate | 2015-12-04 ⓘ |
| subject |
freight policy
ⓘ
highway funding ⓘ infrastructure investment ⓘ rail safety ⓘ transit funding ⓘ transportation planning ⓘ |
| typeOf | surface transportation authorization act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: FAST Description of subject: FAST is a U.S. federal law that authorizes long-term funding and policy for the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure, including highways, transit, and rail.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.