Kitaca
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Kitaca is a rechargeable contactless smart card used primarily for public transportation and electronic payments in Japan’s Hokkaido region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kitaca canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3411341 — 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: Kitaca Context triple: [ICOCA, compatibleWith, Kitaca]
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A.
Suica
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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B.
PASMO
PASMO is a rechargeable contactless smart card widely used for public transportation and electronic payments across the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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C.
Sendai Subway
Sendai Subway is an urban rapid transit system serving the city of Sendai in Japan, providing key north–south and east–west rail connections across the metropolitan area.
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D.
Toei Subway
Toei Subway is one of Tokyo's two main subway networks, operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation and serving numerous urban and suburban areas across the city.
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E.
ICOCA
ICOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation systems in the Kansai region of Japan.
- 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: Kitaca Target entity description: Kitaca is a rechargeable contactless smart card used primarily for public transportation and electronic payments in Japan’s Hokkaido region.
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A.
Suica
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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B.
PASMO
PASMO is a rechargeable contactless smart card widely used for public transportation and electronic payments across the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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C.
Sendai Subway
Sendai Subway is an urban rapid transit system serving the city of Sendai in Japan, providing key north–south and east–west rail connections across the metropolitan area.
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D.
Toei Subway
Toei Subway is one of Tokyo's two main subway networks, operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation and serving numerous urban and suburban areas across the city.
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E.
ICOCA
ICOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation systems in the Kansai region of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fare card
ⓘ
rechargeable contactless smart card ⓘ stored-value card ⓘ transportation card ⓘ |
| cardMedium | plastic card ⓘ |
| cardType | IC card ⓘ |
| category |
Contactless smart cards
ⓘ
Fare collection systems in Japan ⓘ Japanese electronic money system ⓘ Public transport in Hokkaido ⓘ |
| contactlessInterface | proximity card ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | Japanese yen ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Hokkaido Railway Company ⓘ |
| issuer | Hokkaido Railway Company ⓘ |
| languageOnCard | Japanese ⓘ |
| operator | Hokkaido Railway Company ⓘ |
| operatorAbbreviation | JR Hokkaido ⓘ |
| paymentMethodType | prepaid ⓘ |
| primaryUse | public transportation payment ⓘ |
| railwayNetwork | JR Hokkaido railway network ⓘ |
| rechargeable | true ⓘ |
| regionServed | Hokkaido ⓘ |
| supportsAutomaticFareCollection | true ⓘ |
| supportsElectronicMoney | true ⓘ |
| supportsStoredValue | true ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
commuters in Hokkaido
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tourists in Hokkaido ⓘ |
| technology | contactless smart card ⓘ |
| usableFor |
commuter passes
ⓘ
stored fare ⓘ |
| usableOn |
JR Hokkaido stations automatic ticket gates
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JR Hokkaido trains ⓘ |
| use | electronic money payment ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bus fares
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railway fares ⓘ retail purchases at compatible shops ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Hokkaido region
ⓘ
linked to:
Hokkaido
Sapporo metropolitan area ⓘ |
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: Kitaca Description of subject: Kitaca is a rechargeable contactless smart card used primarily for public transportation and electronic payments in Japan’s Hokkaido region.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.