Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu)
E843691
Japanese company
Meitetsu Group core company
private railway company
public transport operator
railway company of Japan
Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) is a major private railway company in Japan that operates an extensive network of commuter and intercity rail lines centered on Nagoya and the surrounding Chūkyō metropolitan area.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nagoya Railroad | 19 |
| Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) canonical | 1 |
| Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Nagoya Railroad Group | 1 |
| 名古屋鉄道株式会社 | 1 |
| 名鉄 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10014954 — 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: Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) Context triple: [Aichi Prefecture, hasRailOperator, Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu)]
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Sanyo Electric Railway
Sanyo Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway company operating commuter rail services primarily in Hyōgo Prefecture, including routes that interconnect with other major regional rail networks.
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Keisei Electric Railway
Keisei Electric Railway is a major private railway operator in the Greater Tokyo area, best known for linking central Tokyo with Chiba Prefecture and Narita International Airport.
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Odakyu Electric Railway
Odakyu Electric Railway is a major private railway company in Japan that operates commuter and limited express train services connecting central Tokyo with surrounding suburban and regional areas.
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Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company
Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company is a Japanese private railway operator that manages and operates the Minatomirai Line in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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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.
- 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: Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) Target entity description: Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) is a major private railway company in Japan that operates an extensive network of commuter and intercity rail lines centered on Nagoya and the surrounding Chūkyō metropolitan area.
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A.
Sanyo Electric Railway
Sanyo Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway company operating commuter rail services primarily in Hyōgo Prefecture, including routes that interconnect with other major regional rail networks.
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B.
Keisei Electric Railway
Keisei Electric Railway is a major private railway operator in the Greater Tokyo area, best known for linking central Tokyo with Chiba Prefecture and Narita International Airport.
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C.
Odakyu Electric Railway
Odakyu Electric Railway is a major private railway company in Japan that operates commuter and limited express train services connecting central Tokyo with surrounding suburban and regional areas.
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D.
Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company
Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company is a Japanese private railway operator that manages and operates the Minatomirai Line in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) Description of subject: Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) is a major private railway company in Japan that operates an extensive network of commuter and intercity rail lines centered on Nagoya and the surrounding Chūkyō metropolitan area.
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