Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences
E209581
The Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences is a major Japanese research center specializing in advanced studies of the Earth’s systems, including climate, oceans, and geophysics.
All labels observed (1)
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| Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1850514 — 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: Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences Context triple: [Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, hasResearchCenter, Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences]
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A.
Yokohama National University
Yokohama National University is a prominent Japanese national research university located in Yokohama, known for its programs in engineering, economics, business, and education.
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B.
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences is an interdisciplinary graduate school of the University of Tokyo that focuses on cutting-edge research and education across emerging scientific and technological fields.
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C.
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
The Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese research center dedicated to the scientific study of earthquakes, volcanoes, and related geophysical phenomena.
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D.
Nagoya University
Nagoya University is a prestigious Japanese national research university known for its strong science and engineering programs and several Nobel Prize–winning scholars.
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E.
Yokohama City University
Yokohama City University is a Japanese public university known for its strengths in medicine, life sciences, and international studies.
- 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: Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences Target entity description: The Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences is a major Japanese research center specializing in advanced studies of the Earth’s systems, including climate, oceans, and geophysics.
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A.
Yokohama National University
Yokohama National University is a prominent Japanese national research university located in Yokohama, known for its programs in engineering, economics, business, and education.
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B.
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences is an interdisciplinary graduate school of the University of Tokyo that focuses on cutting-edge research and education across emerging scientific and technological fields.
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C.
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
The Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese research center dedicated to the scientific study of earthquakes, volcanoes, and related geophysical phenomena.
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D.
Nagoya University
Nagoya University is a prestigious Japanese national research university known for its strong science and engineering programs and several Nobel Prize–winning scholars.
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E.
Yokohama City University
Yokohama City University is a Japanese public university known for its strengths in medicine, life sciences, and international studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
earth science research center
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research institute ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
atmospheric science
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climate modeling ⓘ climate science ⓘ earth sciences ⓘ geodynamics ⓘ geophysics ⓘ ocean circulation modeling ⓘ oceanography ⓘ seismology ⓘ |
| hasResearchFocus |
Earth system modeling
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climate change ⓘ geophysical fluid dynamics ⓘ natural hazards ⓘ ocean–atmosphere interaction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Honshu
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Japan ⓘ Kanagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Yokohama ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Japan ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
advanced studies of the Earth’s systems
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climate system research ⓘ geophysical research ⓘ ocean system research ⓘ |
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: Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences Description of subject: The Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences is a major Japanese research center specializing in advanced studies of the Earth’s systems, including climate, oceans, and geophysics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
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hasResearchCenter
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Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences
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