Tosa
E1025428
Tosa was a historical province on the southern coast of Japan’s Shikoku Island, corresponding largely to modern Kōchi Prefecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tosa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13167926 — 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: Tosa Context triple: [Tosa Domain, region, Tosa]
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A.
Usuki
Usuki is a historic coastal city in Japan known for its well-preserved samurai district and famous stone Buddha statues.
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B.
Omura
Omura is a coastal city in western Japan known for its proximity to Nagasaki, Omura Bay, and its regional industrial and transportation hubs.
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C.
Maruim
Maruim is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Sergipe, located along the Sergipe River and known for its historical and regional cultural significance.
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D.
Tomia
Tomia is an island in Indonesia’s Wakatobi archipelago, renowned for its pristine coral reefs and exceptional scuba diving and snorkeling sites.
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E.
Amakusa
Amakusa is a group of islands and a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, known for its coastal scenery, historical Christian heritage, and fishing communities.
- 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: Tosa Target entity description: Tosa was a historical province on the southern coast of Japan’s Shikoku Island, corresponding largely to modern Kōchi Prefecture.
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A.
Usuki
Usuki is a historic coastal city in Japan known for its well-preserved samurai district and famous stone Buddha statues.
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B.
Omura
Omura is a coastal city in western Japan known for its proximity to Nagasaki, Omura Bay, and its regional industrial and transportation hubs.
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C.
Maruim
Maruim is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Sergipe, located along the Sergipe River and known for its historical and regional cultural significance.
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D.
Tomia
Tomia is an island in Indonesia’s Wakatobi archipelago, renowned for its pristine coral reefs and exceptional scuba diving and snorkeling sites.
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E.
Amakusa
Amakusa is a group of islands and a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, known for its coastal scenery, historical Christian heritage, and fishing communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Tosa Description of subject: Tosa was a historical province on the southern coast of Japan’s Shikoku Island, corresponding largely to modern Kōchi Prefecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.