M23 SBS (cross-town connection)
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M23 SBS (cross-town connection) is a Select Bus Service route in Manhattan that provides rapid crosstown transit along 23rd Street, linking key destinations on the east and west sides of the borough.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M23 SBS (cross-town connection) canonical | 1 |
| M23 Select Bus Service | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6764733 — 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: M23 SBS (cross-town connection) Context triple: [First Avenue (Manhattan), hasPublicTransit, M23 SBS (cross-town connection)]
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A.
M2 line
The M2 line is a major rapid transit route within the Ankara Metro system in Turkey, serving key districts of the capital city.
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B.
M2 line
The M2 line is one of the main lines of the Helsinki Metro rapid transit system, serving key districts across the Helsinki metropolitan area.
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C.
M2 line
The M2 line is a fully automated metro line in Lausanne, Switzerland, running on a steep north–south route that connects the city center with surrounding districts and the lakeshore.
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D.
S2 line
The S2 line is a route of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn network serving the Frankfurt metropolitan area, including central hubs such as Frankfurt Hauptwache station.
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E.
S2 line
The S2 line is a commuter rail service of the Zürich S-Bahn network that connects the city with surrounding suburban and regional areas.
- 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: M23 SBS (cross-town connection) Target entity description: M23 SBS (cross-town connection) is a Select Bus Service route in Manhattan that provides rapid crosstown transit along 23rd Street, linking key destinations on the east and west sides of the borough.
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A.
M2 line
The M2 line is a major rapid transit route within the Ankara Metro system in Turkey, serving key districts of the capital city.
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B.
M2 line
The M2 line is one of the main lines of the Helsinki Metro rapid transit system, serving key districts across the Helsinki metropolitan area.
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C.
M2 line
The M2 line is a fully automated metro line in Lausanne, Switzerland, running on a steep north–south route that connects the city center with surrounding districts and the lakeshore.
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D.
S2 line
The S2 line is a route of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn network serving the Frankfurt metropolitan area, including central hubs such as Frankfurt Hauptwache station.
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E.
S2 line
The S2 line is a commuter rail service of the Zürich S-Bahn network that connects the city with surrounding suburban and regional areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York City bus route
ⓘ
Select Bus Service route ⓘ |
| agencyRouteDesignation | M23 SBS ⓘ |
| boroughServed | Manhattan ⓘ |
| branding | Select Bus Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Bus routes in Manhattan
ⓘ
Select Bus Service routes in New York City ⓘ |
| cityServed | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsSide |
East Side of Manhattan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Side of Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fareCollection | off-board fare payment ⓘ |
| fareSystem | MTA bus fare system ⓘ |
| feature |
all-door boarding
ⓘ
bus lanes ⓘ limited-stop service ⓘ transit signal priority ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Manhattan bus network
ⓘ
New York City bus network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | bus ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
MTA New York City Transit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metropolitan Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| primaryStreet |
East 23rd Street
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West 23rd Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransitSystem | MTA Regional Bus Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | rapid crosstown transit ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| routeNumber | M23 ⓘ |
| runsAlong | 23rd Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Chelsea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flatiron District NERFINISHED ⓘ Gramercy NERFINISHED ⓘ Kips Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Midtown Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBrand | SBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
bus rapid transit
ⓘ
crosstown ⓘ |
| ticketType |
MetroCard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OMNY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transitCorridor | 23rd Street Crosstown ⓘ |
| uses | New York City articulated 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: M23 SBS (cross-town connection) Description of subject: M23 SBS (cross-town connection) is a Select Bus Service route in Manhattan that provides rapid crosstown transit along 23rd Street, linking key destinations on the east and west sides of the borough.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
First Avenue (Manhattan)
this entity surface form:
M23 Select Bus Service