PiTaPa
E71901
PiTaPa is a rechargeable contactless smart card system used for fare payment on public transportation networks in the Kansai region of Japan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PiTaPa canonical | 24 |
| PiTaPa accepted | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T573291 — 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: PiTaPa Context triple: [Osaka Metro, uses, PiTaPa]
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A.
Piipaash
Piipaash are a Native American people of the lower Colorado River region, closely related to the Maricopa and known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
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B.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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C.
Penge
Penge is a suburban district in southeast London known for its Victorian architecture and proximity to Crystal Palace.
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D.
Putlibai
Putlibai was the deeply religious mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and moral influence profoundly shaped his character and values.
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E.
Jini
Jini is a Java-based network architecture and technology from Sun Microsystems designed to enable dynamic discovery, joining, and interaction of distributed services in a network.
- 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: PiTaPa Target entity description: PiTaPa is a rechargeable contactless smart card system used for fare payment on public transportation networks in the Kansai region of Japan.
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A.
Piipaash
Piipaash are a Native American people of the lower Colorado River region, closely related to the Maricopa and known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
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B.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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C.
Penge
Penge is a suburban district in southeast London known for its Victorian architecture and proximity to Crystal Palace.
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D.
Putlibai
Putlibai was the deeply religious mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and moral influence profoundly shaped his character and values.
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E.
Jini
Jini is a Java-based network architecture and technology from Sun Microsystems designed to enable dynamic discovery, joining, and interaction of distributed services in a network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card system
ⓘ
fare card ⓘ stored-value card ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Surutto Kansai ⓘ |
| canBeReissued | true ⓘ |
| cardType | RFID smart card ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Hayakaken
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ICOCA ⓘ PASMO ⓘ SUGOCA ⓘ Suica ⓘ TOICA ⓘ manaca ⓘ nimoca ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | Japanese yen ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Postpay IC for Touch and Pay ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic fare calculation
ⓘ
can be linked to credit card account ⓘ contactless tap-in and tap-out ⓘ discount services for frequent users ⓘ rechargeable balance ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
2004
ⓘ
2005 ⓘ |
| languageOfText | Japanese ⓘ |
| operatorRegion |
Hyogo Prefecture
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Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ Nara Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Osaka Prefecture ⓘ Shiga Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Wakayama Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paymentMethod |
postpaid
ⓘ
prepaid ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commuter travel ⓘ |
| regionServed | Kansai region ⓘ |
| secondaryUse | occasional travel ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
residents of Kansai region
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visitors to Kansai region ⓘ |
| technology | contactless smart card ⓘ |
| usedBy |
municipal transport bureaus in Kansai
ⓘ
private railway operators in Kansai ⓘ |
| usedFor | public transportation fare payment ⓘ |
| usedOn |
bus networks in Kansai
ⓘ
railway networks in Kansai ⓘ subway networks in Kansai ⓘ |
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: PiTaPa Description of subject: PiTaPa is a rechargeable contactless smart card system used for fare payment on public transportation networks in the Kansai region of Japan.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.