Suica
E131332
Suica is a rechargeable contactless smart card issued by JR East that is widely used for train fares and electronic payments across Japan.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suica canonical | 91 |
| IC cards (Suica, PASMO) | 2 |
| Suica accepted | 2 |
| IC card Suica | 1 |
| IC card system Suica | 1 |
| Mobile Suica | 1 |
| Suica IC card | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1146096 — 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: Suica Context triple: [JR Yamanote Line, fareCardAccepted, Suica]
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A.
ICOCA
ICOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation systems in the Kansai region of Japan.
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B.
ORCA card
The ORCA card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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C.
Opal card
The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
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D.
TAP card
The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
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E.
Tokyo Metro
Tokyo Metro is one of the two main rapid transit operators in Tokyo, running an extensive network of subway lines that serve the city’s central and metropolitan 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: Suica Target entity description: Suica is a rechargeable contactless smart card issued by JR East that is widely used for train fares and electronic payments across Japan.
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A.
ICOCA
ICOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation systems in the Kansai region of Japan.
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B.
ORCA card
The ORCA card is a reusable, contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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C.
Opal card
The Opal card is a reusable, contactless smartcard used to pay for public transport across much of New South Wales, Australia.
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D.
TAP card
The TAP card is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares across public transit systems in the Los Angeles County region.
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E.
Tokyo Metro
Tokyo Metro is one of the two main rapid transit operators in Tokyo, running an extensive network of subway lines that serve the city’s central and metropolitan areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
electronic money system ⓘ fare card ⓘ rechargeable stored-value card ⓘ |
| availableAs |
mobile application
ⓘ
plastic card ⓘ |
| brandOwner |
JR East
ⓘ
linked to:
East Japan Railway Company
|
| cardType | prepaid ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Hayakaken
ⓘ
ICOCA ⓘ Kitaca ⓘ PASMO ⓘ PiTaPa ⓘ SUGOCA ⓘ TOICA ⓘ manaca ⓘ nimoca ⓘ |
| contactlessStandard |
NFC Type F
ⓘ
linked to:
NFC
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | Japanese yen ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic fare collection
ⓘ
stored balance ⓘ touch-and-go entry and exit gates ⓘ |
| headquartersLocationOfOperator | Tokyo ⓘ |
| inception | 2001 ⓘ |
| interoperabilityScheme | Nationwide interoperable IC card system in Japan ⓘ |
| issuer | East Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| mobilePlatform |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ |
| mobileVariant |
Mobile Suica
ⓘ
linked to:
Suica
|
| nameMeaning | Super Urban Intelligent Card ⓘ |
| nameStyle | brand name written in Latin letters ⓘ |
| operator |
East Japan Railway Company
ⓘ
JR East ⓘ
linked to:
East Japan Railway Company
|
| primaryUse |
public transport ticketing
ⓘ
railway fare payment ⓘ |
| rechargeable | true ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Greater Tokyo Area
ⓘ
linked to:
Tokyo metropolitan area
Niigata Area ⓘ
linked to:
Niigata Prefecture
Sendai Area ⓘ
linked to:
Sendai
|
| sector |
electronic payments
ⓘ
public transportation ⓘ |
| technologyUsed |
FeliCa
ⓘ
linked to:
NFC
|
| usableOn |
Apple Pay
ⓘ
Osaifu-Keitai phones ⓘ |
| use |
coin locker payments
ⓘ
convenience store payments ⓘ electronic money payments ⓘ retail store payments ⓘ taxi fare payments ⓘ vending machine payments ⓘ |
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: Suica Description of subject: Suica is a rechargeable contactless smart card issued by JR East that is widely used for train fares and electronic payments across Japan.
Referenced by (99)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Suica
linked to: Suica
linked to: Suica
linked to: Suica