TOICA
E355482
TOICA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on trains and buses in the Nagoya area and other parts of Japan’s JR Central network.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TOICA canonical | 8 |
| TOICA IC card (major part of network) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3411340 — 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: TOICA Context triple: [ICOCA, compatibleWith, TOICA]
-
A.
Tunechi
Tunechi is a popular nickname and alter ego of American rapper Lil Wayne, often used to refer to his distinctive persona and musical brand.
-
B.
TOIT
TOIT is the standard abbreviation for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on research in internet and web technologies.
-
C.
Tairiku Datsū Sakusen
Tairiku Datsū Sakusen was a major 1944 Japanese military offensive in China during World War II, aimed at securing railways, destroying U.S. air bases, and linking Japanese-held territories.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
TIOH
TIOH is the commonly used acronym for the United States Army Institute of Heraldry, the organization responsible for designing and overseeing official military symbols, insignia, and heraldic items for the U.S. Army and other federal agencies.
- 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: TOICA Target entity description: TOICA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on trains and buses in the Nagoya area and other parts of Japan’s JR Central network.
-
A.
Tunechi
Tunechi is a popular nickname and alter ego of American rapper Lil Wayne, often used to refer to his distinctive persona and musical brand.
-
B.
TOIT
TOIT is the standard abbreviation for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on research in internet and web technologies.
-
C.
Tairiku Datsū Sakusen
Tairiku Datsū Sakusen was a major 1944 Japanese military offensive in China during World War II, aimed at securing railways, destroying U.S. air bases, and linking Japanese-held territories.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
TIOH
TIOH is the commonly used acronym for the United States Army Institute of Heraldry, the organization responsible for designing and overseeing official military symbols, insignia, and heraldic items for the U.S. Army and other federal agencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rechargeable contactless smart card
ⓘ
stored-value fare card ⓘ transportation card ⓘ |
| areaServed |
JR Central conventional lines
ⓘ
surface form:
JR Central network
Chūkyō metropolitan area ⓘ
surface form:
Nagoya metropolitan area
|
| cardType | IC fare card ⓘ |
| category |
Japanese smart card
ⓘ
Transit smart card in Japan ⓘ |
| contactless | true ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Central Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| medium | plastic card ⓘ |
| operator |
Central Japan Railway Company
ⓘ
Central Japan Railway Company ⓘ
surface form:
JR Central
|
| ownership | Central Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | prepaid stored value ⓘ |
| primaryCity | Nagoya ⓘ |
| railwayCompanyRegion | Chūbu region ⓘ |
| rechargeable | true ⓘ |
| sector | public transport ⓘ |
| technology |
NFC
ⓘ
surface form:
FeliCa
contactless RFID ⓘ |
| usedFor | fare payment ⓘ |
| usedOn |
buses
ⓘ
trains ⓘ |
| validOn | JR Central conventional lines in service 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: TOICA Description of subject: TOICA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on trains and buses in the Nagoya area and other parts of Japan’s JR Central network.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
TOICA IC card (major part of network)