Hakodate
E203163
Hakodate is a historic port city on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, known for its scenic night views from Mount Hakodate and its blend of Japanese and Western-influenced architecture.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hakodate canonical | 10 |
| City of Hakodate | 2 |
| Hakodate city center | 2 |
| Hakodate (via Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto) | 1 |
| Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan | 1 |
| Hakodate, Japan | 1 |
| 函館市 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T493626 — 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: Hakodate Context triple: [JST, usedByCity, Hakodate]
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A.
Sapporo
Sapporo is the capital and largest city of Japan’s northern Hokkaido prefecture, known for its annual snow festival, beer, and ski resorts.
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B.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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C.
Morioka
Morioka is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its historic castle site, surrounding mountains, and distinctive local noodle dishes.
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D.
Wakkanai
Wakkanai is Japan’s northernmost city, located on the island of Hokkaido and known as a gateway to nearby Russian territories across the sea.
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E.
Sendai
Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
- 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: Hakodate Target entity description: Hakodate is a historic port city on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, known for its scenic night views from Mount Hakodate and its blend of Japanese and Western-influenced architecture.
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A.
Sapporo
Sapporo is the capital and largest city of Japan’s northern Hokkaido prefecture, known for its annual snow festival, beer, and ski resorts.
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B.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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C.
Morioka
Morioka is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its historic castle site, surrounding mountains, and distinctive local noodle dishes.
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D.
Wakkanai
Wakkanai is Japan’s northernmost city, located on the island of Hokkaido and known as a gateway to nearby Russian territories across the sea.
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E.
Sendai
Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
- 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: Hakodate Description of subject: Hakodate is a historic port city on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, known for its scenic night views from Mount Hakodate and its blend of Japanese and Western-influenced architecture.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University
this entity surface form:
Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
subject surface form:
Ijinkan
this entity surface form:
Hakodate, Japan
this entity surface form:
Hakodate (via Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto)
this entity surface form:
Hakodate city center
this entity surface form:
City of Hakodate