SUGOCA
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SUGOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation and for electronic money transactions in parts of Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SUGOCA canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3411342 — 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: SUGOCA Context triple: [ICOCA, compatibleWith, SUGOCA]
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A.
Meitetsu
Meitetsu is a major private railway company in Japan’s Chubu region, best known for operating extensive rail and transport services centered around Nagoya.
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B.
Gari
Gari is a celebrated Kannada literary work by the renowned poet D. R. Bendre.
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C.
Bugotu
Bugotu is an Austronesian language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken primarily on Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Honancho
Honancho is a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan, known as a residential area with convenient access to central city districts via the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.
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E.
Oshiage
Oshiage is a district in Sumida, Tokyo, best known as the location of the Tokyo Skytree and its surrounding commercial complex.
- 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: SUGOCA Target entity description: SUGOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation and for electronic money transactions in parts of Japan.
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A.
Meitetsu
Meitetsu is a major private railway company in Japan’s Chubu region, best known for operating extensive rail and transport services centered around Nagoya.
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B.
Gari
Gari is a celebrated Kannada literary work by the renowned poet D. R. Bendre.
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C.
Bugotu
Bugotu is an Austronesian language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken primarily on Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Honancho
Honancho is a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan, known as a residential area with convenient access to central city districts via the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.
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E.
Oshiage
Oshiage is a district in Sumida, Tokyo, best known as the location of the Tokyo Skytree and its surrounding commercial complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
electronic money system ⓘ fare card ⓘ stored-value card ⓘ |
| cardMedium | plastic card ⓘ |
| cardType |
prepaid
ⓘ
stored-value ⓘ |
| contactless | yes ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | Japanese yen ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
quick boarding through automatic gates
ⓘ
stored balance on IC chip ⓘ |
| interoperableWith |
Hayakaken
ⓘ
ICOCA ⓘ Kitaca ⓘ Nimoca ⓘ PASMO ⓘ PiTaPa ⓘ Suica ⓘ TOICA ⓘ manaca ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Kyushu Railway Company ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| operator |
Kyushu Railway Company
ⓘ
surface form:
JR Kyushu
Kyushu Railway Company ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | contactless tap ⓘ |
| railNetwork | JR Kyushu network ⓘ |
| rechargeable | yes ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Fukuoka Prefecture
ⓘ
Kyushu ⓘ |
| requiresRegistration | no for anonymous cards ⓘ |
| rfStandard | NFC Type F ⓘ |
| sector |
electronic payments
ⓘ
public transportation ⓘ |
| supportsAutoCharge | yes ⓘ |
| technology |
NFC
ⓘ
surface form:
FeliCa
|
| topUpMethod |
convenience stores
ⓘ
station counters ⓘ ticket machines ⓘ |
| usableAt |
convenience stores
ⓘ
ticket gates ⓘ vending machines ⓘ |
| usableFor | retail purchases ⓘ |
| usableOn |
buses
ⓘ
railway ⓘ subway ⓘ |
| usedFor |
electronic money payments
ⓘ
public transport fare payment ⓘ |
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: SUGOCA Description of subject: SUGOCA is a rechargeable contactless smart card used for fare payment on public transportation and for electronic money transactions in parts of Japan.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.