Saitama New Urban Transit
E584896
Saitama New Urban Transit is a Japanese railway company best known for operating the New Shuttle automated guideway transit line in Saitama Prefecture.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saitama New Urban Transit canonical | 7 |
| 埼玉新都市交通 | 2 |
| Saitama New Urban Transit New Shuttle | 1 |
| Saitama New Urban Transit New Shuttle network | 1 |
| Saitama New Urban Transit system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6305451 — 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: Saitama New Urban Transit Context triple: [Omiya Station, operator, Saitama New Urban Transit]
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A.
Toei Subway
Toei Subway is one of Tokyo's two main subway networks, operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation and serving numerous urban and suburban areas across the city.
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B.
Tama Monorail
Tama Monorail is a straddle-beam monorail line in Tokyo, Japan, providing urban transit service through the Tama area.
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C.
Sendai Subway
Sendai Subway is an urban rapid transit system serving the city of Sendai in Japan, providing key north–south and east–west rail connections across the metropolitan area.
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D.
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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E.
Keiō New Line
The Keiō New Line is a commuter railway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by Keio Corporation and serving as an underground extension of the main Keio Line into central Tokyo.
- 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: Saitama New Urban Transit Target entity description: Saitama New Urban Transit is a Japanese railway company best known for operating the New Shuttle automated guideway transit line in Saitama Prefecture.
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A.
Toei Subway
Toei Subway is one of Tokyo's two main subway networks, operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation and serving numerous urban and suburban areas across the city.
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B.
Tama Monorail
Tama Monorail is a straddle-beam monorail line in Tokyo, Japan, providing urban transit service through the Tama area.
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C.
Sendai Subway
Sendai Subway is an urban rapid transit system serving the city of Sendai in Japan, providing key north–south and east–west rail connections across the metropolitan area.
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D.
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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E.
Keiō New Line
The Keiō New Line is a commuter railway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by Keio Corporation and serving as an underground extension of the main Keio Line into central Tokyo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | railway company ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| fareSystem | distance-based fares ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | New Shuttle operator ⓘ |
| hasLine | New Shuttle Ina Line ⓘ |
| hasOfficialRole | urban transit provider in Saitama Prefecture ⓘ |
| hasVehicleType | automated guideway transit vehicles ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Saitama Prefecture ⓘ |
| industry |
public transportation
ⓘ
rail transport ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport |
automated guideway
ⓘ
rail ⓘ |
| notableFor | operation of the New Shuttle line ⓘ |
| operates |
New Shuttle
ⓘ
linked to:
New Shuttle Ina Line
New Shuttle automated guideway transit line ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Saitama Prefecture ⓘ |
| primaryCustomerBase | commuters in Saitama Prefecture ⓘ |
| primaryRegionServed |
Greater Tokyo Area
ⓘ
linked to:
Tokyo metropolitan area
|
| railwayType | automated guideway transit ⓘ |
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| safetySystem | automatic train control ⓘ |
| serviceType |
commuter rail
ⓘ
urban transit ⓘ |
| usesRailGauge | standard gauge (for AGT guideway) ⓘ |
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: Saitama New Urban Transit Description of subject: Saitama New Urban Transit is a Japanese railway company best known for operating the New Shuttle automated guideway transit line in Saitama Prefecture.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Saitama New Urban Transit
subject linked to:
Kita-Ōmiya Station on New Shuttle Ina Line
subject linked to:
Kita-Ōmiya Station on New Shuttle Ina Line
linked to: Saitama New Urban Transit
linked to: Saitama New Urban Transit