Nippon Sharyo
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Nippon Sharyo is a Japanese rolling stock manufacturer known for producing railway vehicles for domestic operators and international markets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nippon Sharyo canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5777041 — 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: Nippon Sharyo Context triple: [Tokyo Metro 7000 series, manufacturer, Nippon Sharyo]
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A.
Tokyu Car Corporation
Tokyu Car Corporation was a Japanese rolling stock manufacturer known for producing a wide range of electric multiple units, commuter trains, and other railway vehicles for domestic and international operators.
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B.
Kinki Sharyo
Kinki Sharyo is a Japanese manufacturer specializing in the design and production of railway vehicles, including metro and light rail trains used in systems worldwide.
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C.
Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and real estate company based in Tokyo, known for operating extensive rail networks and developing commercial and residential areas, particularly around Shibuya.
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D.
Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail is a global rail transport and engineering company that designs, manufactures, and maintains trains and railway systems for urban, intercity, and high-speed networks.
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E.
Shinkansen Holding Corporation
Shinkansen Holding Corporation is a Japanese company established to own and manage the high-speed Shinkansen railway assets following the breakup and privatization of Japanese National Railways.
- 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: Nippon Sharyo Target entity description: Nippon Sharyo is a Japanese rolling stock manufacturer known for producing railway vehicles for domestic operators and international markets.
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A.
Tokyu Car Corporation
Tokyu Car Corporation was a Japanese rolling stock manufacturer known for producing a wide range of electric multiple units, commuter trains, and other railway vehicles for domestic and international operators.
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B.
Kinki Sharyo
Kinki Sharyo is a Japanese manufacturer specializing in the design and production of railway vehicles, including metro and light rail trains used in systems worldwide.
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C.
Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and real estate company based in Tokyo, known for operating extensive rail networks and developing commercial and residential areas, particularly around Shibuya.
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D.
Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail is a global rail transport and engineering company that designs, manufactures, and maintains trains and railway systems for urban, intercity, and high-speed networks.
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E.
Shinkansen Holding Corporation
Shinkansen Holding Corporation is a Japanese company established to own and manage the high-speed Shinkansen railway assets following the breakup and privatization of Japanese National Railways.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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rolling stock manufacturer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
NERFINISHED
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日本車輌製造株式会社 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| formerName | Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1896 ⓘ |
| hasManufacturingFacility |
Nagoya plant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rochelle, Illinois plant NERFINISHED ⓘ Sao Paulo plant NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyokawa plant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.n-sharyo.co.jp ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Aichi Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nagoya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
railway vehicle manufacturing
ⓘ
rolling stock ⓘ transport equipment ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| listedOn | Tokyo Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorShareholder | Central Japan Railway Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| market |
Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle East NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Caltrain gallery cars
NERFINISHED
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JR Central commuter EMUs ⓘ Metra gallery cars NERFINISHED ⓘ N700 series Shinkansen cars NERFINISHED ⓘ Shinkansen rolling stock NERFINISHED ⓘ VRE gallery cars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Central Japan Railway Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
commuter trains
ⓘ
diesel multiple units ⓘ electric multiple units ⓘ freight wagons ⓘ high-speed train cars ⓘ light rail vehicles ⓘ locomotives ⓘ passenger coaches ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
double-deck commuter coaches
ⓘ
stainless steel car bodies ⓘ |
| suppliesTo |
Caltrain
NERFINISHED
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Central Japan Railway Company NERFINISHED ⓘ East Japan Railway Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Meitetsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Metra NERFINISHED ⓘ Nagoya Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Railway Express NERFINISHED ⓘ West Japan Railway Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nippon Sharyo Description of subject: Nippon Sharyo is a Japanese rolling stock manufacturer known for producing railway vehicles for domestic operators and international markets.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
0 Series Shinkansen
subject surface form:
UP Express