Yikatong contactless smart card
E344013
The Yikatong contactless smart card is a rechargeable stored-value card widely used for seamless fare payment across Beijing’s public transportation network.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yikatong contactless smart card canonical | 5 |
| Yikatong smart card | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3295936 — 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: Yikatong contactless smart card Context triple: [Guomao station, ticketingSystem, Yikatong contactless smart card]
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A.
Bilhete Único smart card
The Bilhete Único smart card is São Paulo’s integrated public transport fare card, allowing seamless, discounted transfers across the city’s metro, bus, and train networks.
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B.
Freedom Card smart card
The Freedom Card smart card is a contactless fare payment card used by riders of the PATCO Speedline rapid transit system in the Philadelphia–South Jersey region.
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C.
OPUS card
The OPUS card is a reusable, contactless smart card used for public transit fare payment across the greater Montreal area and other regions in Quebec.
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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.
Viva Viagem smart card
The Viva Viagem smart card is a rechargeable contactless travel card used for public transportation across the Lisbon metropolitan area, including metro, buses, trams, and some regional trains.
- 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: Yikatong contactless smart card Target entity description: The Yikatong contactless smart card is a rechargeable stored-value card widely used for seamless fare payment across Beijing’s public transportation network.
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A.
Bilhete Único smart card
The Bilhete Único smart card is São Paulo’s integrated public transport fare card, allowing seamless, discounted transfers across the city’s metro, bus, and train networks.
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B.
Freedom Card smart card
The Freedom Card smart card is a contactless fare payment card used by riders of the PATCO Speedline rapid transit system in the Philadelphia–South Jersey region.
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C.
OPUS card
The OPUS card is a reusable, contactless smart card used for public transit fare payment across the greater Montreal area and other regions in Quebec.
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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.
Viva Viagem smart card
The Viva Viagem smart card is a rechargeable contactless travel card used for public transportation across the Lisbon metropolitan area, including metro, buses, trams, and some regional trains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
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public transport fare card ⓘ stored-value card ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beijing Municipal Administration and Communication Card
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Beijing Yikatong ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing Yikatong card
|
| benefit |
discounted fares on some public transport routes
ⓘ
faster boarding ⓘ reduced need for cash ⓘ |
| cardType |
anonymous card
ⓘ
registered card ⓘ |
| city | Beijing ⓘ |
| contactless | true ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| currency | Chinese yuan ⓘ |
| feature |
can be blocked when registered and reported lost
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supports balance inquiry at readers ⓘ supports partial refunds of remaining balance under conditions ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Beijing ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| localName |
Beijing Yikatong
ⓘ
surface form:
一卡通
|
| medium | plastic card ⓘ |
| operator |
Beijing State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd.
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surface form:
Beijing Municipal Administration and Communication Card Co., Ltd.
Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | prepaid ⓘ |
| rechargeable | true ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Beijing
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing municipality
|
| romanizedName | Yīkǎtōng ⓘ |
| sector |
electronic payments
ⓘ
public transportation ⓘ |
| storedValue | true ⓘ |
| technology | contactless RFID ⓘ |
| topUpMethod |
authorized convenience stores
ⓘ
mobile apps linked to bank cards ⓘ service counters at metro stations ⓘ some bank ATMs in Beijing ⓘ ticket vending machines ⓘ |
| usageArea |
Beijing Subway
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buses in Beijing ⓘ some suburban rail lines around Beijing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
airport express fare payment
ⓘ
bus fare payment ⓘ fare payment ⓘ light rail fare payment ⓘ metro fare payment ⓘ some public bicycle rental services in Beijing ⓘ some small retail purchases ⓘ some taxi fare payment in Beijing ⓘ subway fare payment ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Beijing public transit network
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing public transportation network
|
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: Yikatong contactless smart card Description of subject: The Yikatong contactless smart card is a rechargeable stored-value card widely used for seamless fare payment across Beijing’s public transportation network.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yikatong smart card