IC Operating Card
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IC Operating Card is a rechargeable contactless smart card system used for fare payment on public transportation and electronic purchases in parts of Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IC Operating Card canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3411364 — 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: IC Operating Card Context triple: [ICOCA, abbreviationOf, IC Operating Card]
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A.
OPUS card
The OPUS card is a reusable, contactless smart card used for public transit fare payment across the greater Montreal area and other regions in Quebec.
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B.
PCIC
PCIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the IEEE Petroleum and Chemical Industry Technical Conference, a major annual forum focused on electrical and electronic applications in the petroleum and chemical industries.
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C.
Connect Card
Connect Card is a regional smart transit fare card system used for contactless payment across public transportation services in the Sacramento area.
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D.
IC
IC is a common abbreviation for Iowa City, a university-centered community best known as the home of the University of Iowa and its renowned Writers' Workshop.
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E.
IC Bus
IC Bus is an American manufacturer of school and commercial buses, known for producing yellow school buses commonly used across North America.
- 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: IC Operating Card Target entity description: IC Operating Card is a rechargeable contactless smart card system used for fare payment on public transportation and electronic purchases in parts of Japan.
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A.
OPUS card
The OPUS card is a reusable, contactless smart card used for public transit fare payment across the greater Montreal area and other regions in Quebec.
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B.
PCIC
PCIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the IEEE Petroleum and Chemical Industry Technical Conference, a major annual forum focused on electrical and electronic applications in the petroleum and chemical industries.
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C.
Connect Card
Connect Card is a regional smart transit fare card system used for contactless payment across public transportation services in the Sacramento area.
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D.
IC
IC is a common abbreviation for Iowa City, a university-centered community best known as the home of the University of Iowa and its renowned Writers' Workshop.
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E.
IC Bus
IC Bus is an American manufacturer of school and commercial buses, known for producing yellow school buses commonly used across North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contactless smart card
ⓘ
fare collection system ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod | proximity card reader ⓘ |
| cardType | smart card ⓘ |
| contactless | true ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | Japanese yen ⓘ |
| medium | plastic card ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | tap-and-go ⓘ |
| paymentType | prepaid ⓘ |
| rechargeable | true ⓘ |
| requires | card reader terminals ⓘ |
| sector |
public transportation
ⓘ
retail payments ⓘ |
| supports |
automatic fare collection
ⓘ
electronic money transactions ⓘ stored value ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
commuters
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| technology | contactless integrated circuit card ⓘ |
| topUpMethod |
convenience stores
ⓘ
service counters ⓘ ticket machines ⓘ |
| usedFor |
electronic purchases
ⓘ
fare payment on public transportation ⓘ |
| usedIn | parts of Japan ⓘ |
| usedOn |
buses
ⓘ
other public transit modes ⓘ trains ⓘ |
| valueStorage | on-card IC chip ⓘ |
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: IC Operating Card Description of subject: IC Operating Card is a rechargeable contactless smart card system used for fare payment on public transportation and electronic purchases in parts of Japan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.