MetroBus
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MetroBus is the public bus service operating under the Metro Transit system in the St. Louis metropolitan area, providing local and regional fixed-route transportation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MetroBus canonical | 8 |
| MetroBus (St. Louis) | 1 |
| St. Louis MetroBus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5495165 — 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: MetroBus Context triple: [Metro Transit (St. Louis), brandIncludes, MetroBus]
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A.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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B.
Metrobus
Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
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C.
Metro Bus
Metro Bus is the primary public bus service network for Los Angeles County, providing extensive local and rapid transit across the region.
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D.
Metrobús
Metrobús is Mexico City’s bus rapid transit system, featuring dedicated lanes and high-capacity articulated buses to provide efficient urban transportation across the metropolis.
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E.
Metro Rapid
Metro Rapid is a network of limited-stop, high-frequency bus routes in Los Angeles designed to provide faster service along major corridors than regular local buses.
- 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: MetroBus Target entity description: MetroBus is the public bus service operating under the Metro Transit system in the St. Louis metropolitan area, providing local and regional fixed-route transportation.
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A.
Metrobus
Metrobus is the public bus transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated alongside the Metrorail network by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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B.
Metrobus
Metrobus is Miami-Dade County’s primary public bus system, providing extensive local and regional transit service throughout the Greater Miami area.
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C.
Metro Bus
Metro Bus is the primary public bus service network for Los Angeles County, providing extensive local and rapid transit across the region.
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D.
Metrobús
Metrobús is Mexico City’s bus rapid transit system, featuring dedicated lanes and high-capacity articulated buses to provide efficient urban transportation across the metropolis.
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E.
Metro Rapid
Metro Rapid is a network of limited-stop, high-frequency bus routes in Los Angeles designed to provide faster service along major corridors than regular local buses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public bus service
ⓘ
public transportation system component ⓘ |
| brandOf | Metro Transit bus operations ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareSystem |
integrated with Metro Call‑A‑Ride
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
integrated with MetroLink ⓘ |
| governingBody | Bi-State Development Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasServiceAreaFeature |
Madison County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Clair County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis County, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis city NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
Metro Call‑A‑Ride paratransit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MetroLink light rail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialInformation | English ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operator | Metro Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Bi-State Development Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Metro Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Metro Transit system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paymentMethod |
fares
ⓘ
passes ⓘ transfers ⓘ |
| primaryCityServed | St. Louis, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesService |
commuter transportation
ⓘ
local circulation ⓘ regional connectivity ⓘ |
| publicTransitAuthority | Bi-State Development Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sector | public sector transportation ⓘ |
| serves | St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servicePattern |
fixed routes
ⓘ
scheduled service ⓘ |
| serviceType |
fixed-route bus transportation
ⓘ
local bus service ⓘ regional bus service ⓘ |
| targetUserGroup |
commuters
ⓘ
general public ⓘ students ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| ticketingSystem | shared with MetroLink ⓘ |
| transitSystem | Metro Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportCategory |
mass transit
ⓘ
public transit ⓘ |
| usesInfrastructure | public streets and highways in St. Louis region ⓘ |
| website | https://www.metrostlouis.org ⓘ |
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: MetroBus Description of subject: MetroBus is the public bus service operating under the Metro Transit system in the St. Louis metropolitan area, providing local and regional fixed-route transportation.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Louis MetroBus
this entity surface form:
MetroBus (St. Louis)