JR East station numbering
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JR East station numbering is a system that assigns alphanumeric codes to East Japan Railway Company stations to make navigation and route identification easier for passengers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| JR East station numbering canonical | 3 |
| JR East Saikyo Line station numbering | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6402779 — 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: JR East station numbering Context triple: [Takasaki Station, hasStationCodeSystem, JR East station numbering]
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A.
JR West station numbering
JR West station numbering is a system that assigns alphanumeric codes to stations operated by West Japan Railway Company to simplify navigation for passengers.
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B.
JR Inari Station
JR Inari Station is a railway station in Kyoto, Japan, serving visitors to the famous Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine and its surrounding area.
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C.
JR Sōjiji Station
JR Sōjiji Station is a railway station on JR West’s Kyoto Line (Tōkaidō Main Line) serving the city of Takatsuki in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
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D.
JR Chūō Line at Kichijōji Station
The JR Chūō Line at Kichijōji Station is a major commuter rail line in western Tokyo that provides rapid access between the popular Kichijōji area and central Tokyo hubs such as Shinjuku and Tokyo Station.
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E.
Tawaramachi Station
Tawaramachi Station is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line located in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, 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: JR East station numbering Target entity description: JR East station numbering is a system that assigns alphanumeric codes to East Japan Railway Company stations to make navigation and route identification easier for passengers.
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A.
JR West station numbering
JR West station numbering is a system that assigns alphanumeric codes to stations operated by West Japan Railway Company to simplify navigation for passengers.
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B.
JR Inari Station
JR Inari Station is a railway station in Kyoto, Japan, serving visitors to the famous Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine and its surrounding area.
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C.
JR Sōjiji Station
JR Sōjiji Station is a railway station on JR West’s Kyoto Line (Tōkaidō Main Line) serving the city of Takatsuki in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
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D.
JR Chūō Line at Kichijōji Station
The JR Chūō Line at Kichijōji Station is a major commuter rail line in western Tokyo that provides rapid access between the popular Kichijōji area and central Tokyo hubs such as Shinjuku and Tokyo Station.
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E.
Tawaramachi Station
Tawaramachi Station is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line located in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public transport information system
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railway station numbering system ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
JR East railway stations
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linked to:
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Tokyo metropolitan area JR East lines ⓘ
linked to:
JR East urban network
major JR East urban lines ⓘ |
| codeFormat | one or two Latin letters followed by two digits ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| feature |
codes displayed on train information screens
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codes printed on station signage ⓘ codes shown on route maps ⓘ line identification by letters ⓘ station identification by numbers ⓘ unique code per station on a line ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
line letter code
ⓘ
sequential station number ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | subway station numbering systems in Japan ⓘ |
| introducedBy | East Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| languageIndependence | designed to be readable without Japanese knowledge ⓘ |
| operator | East Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| purpose |
to assist non‑Japanese speakers
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to make navigation easier for passengers ⓘ to simplify route identification ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Toei Subway station numbering
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Tokyo Metro station numbering ⓘ |
| standardizedWithin | JR East service area ⓘ |
| targetUserGroup |
commuters changing between multiple lines
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foreign tourists ⓘ infrequent passengers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
route guidance in digital journey planners
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route guidance in printed timetables ⓘ wayfinding on station platforms ⓘ |
| uses | alphanumeric station codes ⓘ |
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: JR East station numbering Description of subject: JR East station numbering is a system that assigns alphanumeric codes to East Japan Railway Company stations to make navigation and route identification easier for passengers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: JR East station numbering