Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan
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Tokushima Prefecture is a largely rural coastal region on Japan’s Shikoku Island, known for its mountainous landscapes, the Naruto whirlpools, and the Awa Odori dance festival.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan canonical | 1 |
| western Tokushima Prefecture | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14442543 — 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: Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan Context triple: [Temple 12: Shōsanji, locatedIn, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan]
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Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan is a southwestern Japanese prefecture on the island of Honshu known for its strategic coastal location facing both the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan, historic samurai towns, and role as the birthplace of several prominent political and military figures.
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Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Kōchi Prefecture, Japan is a largely rural coastal prefecture on the island of Shikoku, known for its mountainous landscapes, Pacific shoreline, and historic castle town of Kōchi City.
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Osugi, Shikoku, Japan
Osugi in Shikoku, Japan is a small rural locality best known as the birthplace of World War II-era Imperial Japanese Army general Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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D.
Ikata, Ehime, Japan
Ikata, Ehime, Japan is a small coastal town on Shikoku Island known for its nuclear power plant and as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning engineer Shuji Nakamura.
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Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan is a coastal region on central Honshu known for Mount Fuji, green tea production, and its scenic Pacific shoreline.
- 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: Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan Target entity description: Tokushima Prefecture is a largely rural coastal region on Japan’s Shikoku Island, known for its mountainous landscapes, the Naruto whirlpools, and the Awa Odori dance festival.
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A.
Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan is a southwestern Japanese prefecture on the island of Honshu known for its strategic coastal location facing both the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan, historic samurai towns, and role as the birthplace of several prominent political and military figures.
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B.
Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Kōchi Prefecture, Japan is a largely rural coastal prefecture on the island of Shikoku, known for its mountainous landscapes, Pacific shoreline, and historic castle town of Kōchi City.
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C.
Osugi, Shikoku, Japan
Osugi in Shikoku, Japan is a small rural locality best known as the birthplace of World War II-era Imperial Japanese Army general Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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D.
Ikata, Ehime, Japan
Ikata, Ehime, Japan is a small coastal town on Shikoku Island known for its nuclear power plant and as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning engineer Shuji Nakamura.
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E.
Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan is a coastal region on central Honshu known for Mount Fuji, green tea production, and its scenic Pacific shoreline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.