Port of Tokyo
E153549
The Port of Tokyo is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping, trade, and logistics in the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Tokyo canonical | 11 |
| Port of Tokyo (via Tokyo Bay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1279071 — 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: Port of Tokyo Context triple: [Tokyo Bay, hasPort, Port of Tokyo]
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A.
Port of Osaka
The Port of Osaka is a major Japanese seaport and logistics hub serving the Kansai region, handling international trade, passenger ferries, and cruise ships.
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B.
Port of Kobe
The Port of Kobe is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping and maritime trade in the Kansai region.
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C.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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D.
Port of Sakai-Semboku
The Port of Sakai-Semboku is a major industrial and commercial seaport in the Osaka metropolitan area, serving as a key logistics hub for maritime trade in western Japan.
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E.
Kishiwada Port
Kishiwada Port is a coastal harbor facility in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving regional maritime transport and local industry.
- 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: Port of Tokyo Target entity description: The Port of Tokyo is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping, trade, and logistics in the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
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A.
Port of Osaka
The Port of Osaka is a major Japanese seaport and logistics hub serving the Kansai region, handling international trade, passenger ferries, and cruise ships.
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B.
Port of Kobe
The Port of Kobe is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping and maritime trade in the Kansai region.
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C.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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D.
Port of Sakai-Semboku
The Port of Sakai-Semboku is a major industrial and commercial seaport in the Osaka metropolitan area, serving as a key logistics hub for maritime trade in western Japan.
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E.
Kishiwada Port
Kishiwada Port is a coastal harbor facility in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving regional maritime transport and local industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
container port
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Port of Kawasaki
ⓘ
Port of Yokohama ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
expressway network of Tokyo
ⓘ
rail network of Tokyo ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| governedBy | Port and Harbor Law of Japan ⓘ |
| handles |
bulk cargo
ⓘ
containerized cargo ⓘ passenger traffic ⓘ roll-on/roll-off cargo ⓘ |
| hasBerths |
container berths
ⓘ
general cargo berths ⓘ oil and chemical berths ⓘ passenger ship berths ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
container terminals
ⓘ
cruise ship berths ⓘ customs facilities ⓘ logistics centers ⓘ warehouses ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
export hub for Japanese manufacturing
ⓘ
import gateway for Tokyo metropolitan area ⓘ |
| hasHarborDistrict |
Kōtō
ⓘ
Shinagawa ⓘ Ōta ⓘ |
| hasMajorTerminal |
Aomi Container Terminal
ⓘ
Takeshiba Passenger Ship Terminal ⓘ
surface form:
Harumi Passenger Ship Terminal
Oi Container Terminal ⓘ Shinagawa Terminal ⓘ Takeshiba Passenger Ship Terminal ⓘ |
| isMajorHubFor |
container shipping
ⓘ
international trade ⓘ logistics ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kantō region
ⓘ
Tokyo ⓘ Tokyo Bay ⓘ |
| nearbyAirport |
Haneda Airport
ⓘ
Narita International Airport ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Tokyo ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1941 ⓘ |
| operator | Tokyo Metropolitan Government ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pacific Great Circle route
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Ocean shipping routes
Tokyo Bay port cluster ⓘ
surface form:
Tokyo Port Authority system
|
| rankedAmong | largest ports in Japan ⓘ |
| serves |
Tokyo metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Tokyo Area
|
| UNLocode | JPTYO ⓘ |
| waterway | Tokyo Bay ⓘ |
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: Port of Tokyo Description of subject: The Port of Tokyo is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping, trade, and logistics in the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Port of Tokyo (via Tokyo Bay)