ICOCA
E71900
ICOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation systems in the Kansai region of Japan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ICOCA canonical | 25 |
| ICOCA commuter pass | 1 |
| ICOCA for children | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T573290 — 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: ICOCA Context triple: [Osaka Metro, uses, ICOCA]
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A.
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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B.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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C.
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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D.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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E.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
- 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: ICOCA Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Presto card
The Presto card is a reloadable smart card used for paying public transit fares across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and other regions in Ontario, Canada.
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C.
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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D.
Clipper card
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used to pay fares across multiple public transit systems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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E.
MetroCard
MetroCard is a magnetic stripe payment card formerly used as the primary method for paying fares on New York City’s public transit system, including subways and buses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rechargeable contactless smart card
ⓘ
stored-value fare card ⓘ transportation payment card ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | IC Operating Card ⓘ |
| alsoUsableIn |
Chugoku region
ⓘ
linked to:
Chūgoku region
Hokuriku region ⓘ Shikoku region ⓘ
linked to:
Shikoku
|
| cardMedium | plastic card ⓘ |
| cardType | contactless integrated circuit card ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Hayakaken
ⓘ
Kitaca ⓘ PASMO ⓘ SUGOCA ⓘ Suica ⓘ TOICA ⓘ nimoca ⓘ |
| contactless | true ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | Japanese yen ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
interoperable nationwide IC card network
ⓘ
stored balance display at gates ⓘ touch-and-go gate entry ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
ICOCA commuter pass
ⓘ
linked to:
ICOCA
ICOCA for children ⓘ
linked to:
ICOCA
ICOCA with credit card function ⓘ |
| inception | 2003 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | JR West ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| logoCharacter | platypus mascot ⓘ |
| network |
JR West rail network
ⓘ
linked to:
JR West Urban Network
|
| operator |
JR West
ⓘ
West Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| owner | West Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | prepaid ⓘ |
| primaryColor | light blue ⓘ |
| rechargeable | true ⓘ |
| regionServed | Kansai region ⓘ |
| requiresDeposit | true ⓘ |
| sector | public transport ticketing ⓘ |
| supportsAutoCharge | true ⓘ |
| technology |
FeliCa
ⓘ
linked to:
NFC
|
| usedFor |
bus fare payment
ⓘ
electronic money payments ⓘ public transportation fare payment ⓘ railway fare payment ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Japanese
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: ICOCA Description of subject: ICOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation systems in the Kansai region of Japan.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ICOCA
linked to: ICOCA