Shikoku
E13729
Shikoku is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, known for its mountainous landscapes, traditional rural culture, and the famous 88-temple Buddhist pilgrimage route.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shikoku canonical | 193 |
| Shikoku region | 55 |
| Shikoku Island | 36 |
| Japan’s island of Shikoku | 6 |
| Shikoku region of Japan | 6 |
| Shikoku, Japan | 4 |
| Shikoku culture area | 1 |
| Shikoku island | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8758 — 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: Shikoku Context triple: [Japan, majorIsland, Shikoku]
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A.
Kyushu
Kyushu is the southwesternmost of Japan’s main islands, known for its active volcanoes, hot springs, and historic cities such as Fukuoka and Nagasaki.
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B.
Hokkaido
Hokkaido is Japan’s northernmost main island, known for its cold climate, vast natural landscapes, and popular ski resorts.
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C.
Honshu
Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, home to major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto.
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D.
Osaka Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture is a populous and economically vital region in Japan’s Kansai area, centered on the city of Osaka and known as a major hub of commerce, industry, and culture.
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E.
Kansai region
The Kansai region is a major cultural and economic area of western Japan that includes cities such as Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe and is known as a historic heartland of Japanese civilization.
- 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: Shikoku Target entity description: Shikoku is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, known for its mountainous landscapes, traditional rural culture, and the famous 88-temple Buddhist pilgrimage route.
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A.
Kyushu
Kyushu is the southwesternmost of Japan’s main islands, known for its active volcanoes, hot springs, and historic cities such as Fukuoka and Nagasaki.
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B.
Hokkaido
Hokkaido is Japan’s northernmost main island, known for its cold climate, vast natural landscapes, and popular ski resorts.
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C.
Honshu
Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, home to major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto.
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D.
Osaka Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture is a populous and economically vital region in Japan’s Kansai area, centered on the city of Osaka and known as a major hub of commerce, industry, and culture.
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E.
Kansai region
The Kansai region is a major cultural and economic area of western Japan that includes cities such as Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe and is known as a historic heartland of Japanese civilization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Shikoku Description of subject: Shikoku is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, known for its mountainous landscapes, traditional rural culture, and the famous 88-temple Buddhist pilgrimage route.
Referenced by (302)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region of Japan
this entity surface form:
Shikoku, Japan
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku, Japan
subject surface form:
Western Japan
subject surface form:
Western Japan
this entity surface form:
Shikoku Island
subject surface form:
Western Japan
this entity surface form:
Shikoku culture area
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku Island
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku Island
this entity surface form:
Shikoku Island
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku, Japan
this entity surface form:
Shikoku Island
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region
this entity surface form:
Shikoku Island
this entity surface form:
Shikoku region of Japan