SeaBus ferry
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The SeaBus ferry is a passenger-only commuter ferry service in Metro Vancouver that connects downtown Vancouver with the North Shore across Burrard Inlet.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SeaBus | 4 |
| SeaBus ferry canonical | 1 |
| SeaBus ferry service | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8303473 — 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: SeaBus ferry Context triple: [Burrard Inlet, crossedBy, SeaBus ferry]
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A.
Jumbo Mark II-class ferry
The Jumbo Mark II-class ferry is a large, high-capacity class of passenger and vehicle ferries operated in Washington State, designed to serve some of the system’s busiest routes.
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B.
Issaquah-class ferry
The Issaquah-class ferry is a series of medium-sized, double-ended car and passenger ferries operated by Washington State Ferries on various routes in Puget Sound.
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C.
Interislander ferry
The Interislander ferry is a major passenger and vehicle ferry service in New Zealand that connects the North and South Islands across Cook Strait.
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D.
Soflusa ferries
Soflusa ferries are a public ferry service operating passenger routes across the Tagus River in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal.
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E.
Island Class ferries
Island Class ferries are a series of battery-hybrid, double-ended passenger and vehicle vessels operated by BC Ferries on shorter coastal routes in British Columbia, Canada.
- 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: SeaBus ferry Target entity description: The SeaBus ferry is a passenger-only commuter ferry service in Metro Vancouver that connects downtown Vancouver with the North Shore across Burrard Inlet.
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A.
Jumbo Mark II-class ferry
The Jumbo Mark II-class ferry is a large, high-capacity class of passenger and vehicle ferries operated in Washington State, designed to serve some of the system’s busiest routes.
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B.
Issaquah-class ferry
The Issaquah-class ferry is a series of medium-sized, double-ended car and passenger ferries operated by Washington State Ferries on various routes in Puget Sound.
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C.
Interislander ferry
The Interislander ferry is a major passenger and vehicle ferry service in New Zealand that connects the North and South Islands across Cook Strait.
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D.
Soflusa ferries
Soflusa ferries are a public ferry service operating passenger routes across the Tagus River in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal.
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E.
Island Class ferries
Island Class ferries are a series of battery-hybrid, double-ended passenger and vehicle vessels operated by BC Ferries on shorter coastal routes in British Columbia, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry system
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passenger-only commuter ferry service ⓘ public transit service ⓘ |
| accessibility | wheelchair accessible ⓘ |
| allowsVehicles | false ⓘ |
| connects |
City of North Vancouver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Downtown Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ Lonsdale Quay NERFINISHED ⓘ North Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterfront Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crosses | Burrard Inlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fareIntegration | integrated with SkyTrain and buses ⓘ |
| fareSystem | TransLink fare system ⓘ |
| hasVesselType | catamaran ferry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Metro Vancouver, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Metro Vancouver
|
| mode | water transport ⓘ |
| notableFor | connecting downtown Vancouver with the North Shore across Burrard Inlet ⓘ |
| opened | 1977 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Coast Mountain Bus Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
TransLink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Pacific Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingArea | Burrard Inlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | TransLink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | TransLink integrated transit network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passengerOnly | true ⓘ |
| peakUse | weekday commuter periods ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commuter transport ⓘ |
| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| region | Lower Mainland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| safetyAuthority | Transport Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | Metro Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType | fixed-route ferry ⓘ |
| terminal |
Lonsdale Quay SeaBus terminal
NERFINISHED
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Waterfront Station SeaBus terminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ticketing |
Compass Card accepted
ⓘ
Compass Ticket accepted ⓘ |
| transportType | ferry ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: SeaBus ferry Description of subject: The SeaBus ferry is a passenger-only commuter ferry service in Metro Vancouver that connects downtown Vancouver with the North Shore across Burrard Inlet.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Burrard Inlet
this entity surface form:
SeaBus ferry service
this entity surface form:
SeaBus
this entity surface form:
SeaBus
this entity surface form:
SeaBus