Toyama
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Toyama is a coastal city in central Japan known as the capital of Toyama Prefecture, serving as a regional industrial and transportation hub on the Sea of Japan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toyama canonical | 5 |
| Toyama City | 1 |
| passes through Toyama Prefecture | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T493630 — 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: Toyama Context triple: [JST, usedByCity, Toyama]
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A.
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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B.
Nagano
Nagano is a city in central Japan best known internationally for hosting the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.
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C.
Shizuoka
Shizuoka is a coastal city in central Japan known for its views of Mount Fuji, green tea production, and role as the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture.
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D.
Yamagata
Yamagata is a city in northern Japan that serves as the capital of Yamagata Prefecture, known for its hot springs, winter sports, and cherry production.
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E.
Kameoka
Kameoka is a city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural landscapes, historical sites, and proximity to Kyoto.
- 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: Toyama Target entity description: Toyama is a coastal city in central Japan known as the capital of Toyama Prefecture, serving as a regional industrial and transportation hub on the Sea of Japan.
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A.
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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B.
Nagano
Nagano is a city in central Japan best known internationally for hosting the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.
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C.
Shizuoka
Shizuoka is a coastal city in central Japan known for its views of Mount Fuji, green tea production, and role as the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture.
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D.
Yamagata
Yamagata is a city in northern Japan that serves as the capital of Yamagata Prefecture, known for its hot springs, winter sports, and cherry production.
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E.
Kameoka
Kameoka is a city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural landscapes, historical sites, and proximity to Kyoto.
- 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: Toyama Description of subject: Toyama is a coastal city in central Japan known as the capital of Toyama Prefecture, serving as a regional industrial and transportation hub on the Sea of Japan.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
passes through Toyama Prefecture
this entity surface form:
Toyama City