Asakusa Station
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Asakusa Station is a major railway and subway hub in Tokyo’s historic Asakusa district, serving multiple lines and providing access to popular attractions such as Sensō-ji Temple and the Sumida River area.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asakusa Station canonical | 9 |
| Tobu Asakusa Station | 2 |
| Asakusa Station on Tsukuba Express | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1126180 — 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: Asakusa Station Context triple: [Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, terminus, Asakusa Station]
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A.
Kyobashi Station
Kyobashi Station is a major railway hub in Osaka, Japan, serving multiple JR West, Keihan, and Osaka Metro lines and connecting central Osaka with surrounding areas.
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B.
Ikebukuro Station
Ikebukuro Station is one of Tokyo’s busiest railway hubs, serving multiple JR and private lines and acting as a major commercial and transit center in the Ikebukuro district.
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C.
Asashiobashi Station
Asashiobashi Station is a railway station on Osaka's Chūō Line, serving the local area in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan.
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D.
Meiji-jingumae Station
Meiji-jingumae Station is a major Tokyo subway station in the Harajuku/Meiji Shrine area, serving as a key access point to popular shopping and cultural districts.
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E.
Shibuya Station
Shibuya Station is one of Tokyo’s busiest and most important railway hubs, serving multiple train and subway lines and anchoring the famous Shibuya shopping and entertainment district.
- 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: Asakusa Station Target entity description: Asakusa Station is a major railway and subway hub in Tokyo’s historic Asakusa district, serving multiple lines and providing access to popular attractions such as Sensō-ji Temple and the Sumida River area.
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A.
Kyobashi Station
Kyobashi Station is a major railway hub in Osaka, Japan, serving multiple JR West, Keihan, and Osaka Metro lines and connecting central Osaka with surrounding areas.
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B.
Ikebukuro Station
Ikebukuro Station is one of Tokyo’s busiest railway hubs, serving multiple JR and private lines and acting as a major commercial and transit center in the Ikebukuro district.
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C.
Asashiobashi Station
Asashiobashi Station is a railway station on Osaka's Chūō Line, serving the local area in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan.
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D.
Meiji-jingumae Station
Meiji-jingumae Station is a major Tokyo subway station in the Harajuku/Meiji Shrine area, serving as a key access point to popular shopping and cultural districts.
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E.
Shibuya Station
Shibuya Station is one of Tokyo’s busiest and most important railway hubs, serving multiple train and subway lines and anchoring the famous Shibuya shopping and entertainment district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway station
ⓘ
subway station ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Honjo-azumabashi Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oshiage Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Tawaramachi Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo Skytree Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Tobu Railway
ⓘ
surface form:
Tobu Railway network
Toei Subway ⓘ
surface form:
Toei Subway network
Tokyo Metro ⓘ
surface form:
Tokyo Metro network
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| fareSystem |
IC card compatible
ⓘ
PASMO accepted ⓘ Suica accepted ⓘ |
| hasExitTo |
Edo-dori
ⓘ
Kaminarimon-dori ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
coin lockers
ⓘ
elevators ⓘ escalators ⓘ restrooms ⓘ ticket gates ⓘ tourist information ⓘ |
| hasPlatformType |
bay platform
ⓘ
island platform ⓘ |
| hasStationCode |
A-18
ⓘ
G-19 ⓘ TS-01 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Asakusa
ⓘ
Kantō region ⓘ Taitō ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ Tokyo Prefecture ⓘ
surface form:
Tokyo Metropolis
|
| nearby |
Kaminarimon
ⓘ
Nakamise-dori ⓘ Sensō-ji ⓘ Sumida River ⓘ Tokyo Skytree ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1927 ⓘ |
| operator |
Tobu Railway
ⓘ
Toei Subway ⓘ Tokyo Metro ⓘ |
| railwayLine |
Tobu Isesaki Line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tobu Nikko Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Tobu Skytree Line ⓘ Toei Asakusa Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo Metro Ginza Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Asakusa
ⓘ
surface form:
Asakusa district
Sensō-ji ⓘ
surface form:
Sensō-ji Temple area
Sumida River area ⓘ |
| structureType |
terminal station
ⓘ
underground station ⓘ |
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: Asakusa Station Description of subject: Asakusa Station is a major railway and subway hub in Tokyo’s historic Asakusa district, serving multiple lines and providing access to popular attractions such as Sensō-ji Temple and the Sumida River area.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Senso-ji
this entity surface form:
Tobu Asakusa Station
this entity surface form:
Tobu Asakusa Station
this entity surface form:
Asakusa Station on Tsukuba Express