Shoei Kisen Kaisha
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Shoei Kisen Kaisha is a Japanese ship leasing and management company best known internationally as the owner of the container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal in 2021.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shoei Kisen Kaisha canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2259193 — 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: Shoei Kisen Kaisha Context triple: [Ever Given, registeredOwner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha]
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A.
Kawasaki
Kawasaki is a major industrial and residential city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, located between Tokyo and Yokohama along the Tama River.
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B.
Jidosha-Seizo Co., Ltd.
Jidosha-Seizo Co., Ltd. was the early Japanese automobile manufacturing company that evolved into what is known today as Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
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C.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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D.
Nikken Sekkei
Nikken Sekkei is a major Japanese architectural and engineering firm renowned for designing prominent large-scale projects and urban landmarks worldwide.
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E.
Yuasa
Yuasa is a historic coastal town in Japan renowned as the birthplace of traditional soy sauce production.
- 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: Shoei Kisen Kaisha Target entity description: Shoei Kisen Kaisha is a Japanese ship leasing and management company best known internationally as the owner of the container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal in 2021.
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A.
Kawasaki
Kawasaki is a major industrial and residential city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, located between Tokyo and Yokohama along the Tama River.
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B.
Jidosha-Seizo Co., Ltd.
Jidosha-Seizo Co., Ltd. was the early Japanese automobile manufacturing company that evolved into what is known today as Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
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C.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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D.
Nikken Sekkei
Nikken Sekkei is a major Japanese architectural and engineering firm renowned for designing prominent large-scale projects and urban landmarks worldwide.
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E.
Yuasa
Yuasa is a historic coastal town in Japan renowned as the birthplace of traditional soy sauce production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ship leasing company
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ship management company ⓘ shipping company ⓘ |
| basedInCity | Imabari ⓘ |
| basedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| basedInPrefecture | Ehime Prefecture ⓘ |
| businessModel | chartering vessels to shipping lines ⓘ |
| chartersTo | Evergreen Marine ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| fleetType |
bulk carriers
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container ships ⓘ tankers ⓘ |
| hasClient | Evergreen Marine ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan ⓘ |
| industry |
maritime transport
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ship leasing ⓘ ship management ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| legalForm | Kabushiki gaisha ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the 2021 Suez Canal blockage via Ever Given
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ownership of the container ship Ever Given ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
container shipping sector
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global shipping market ⓘ |
| owns |
Ever Given
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Ever Given ⓘ
surface form:
Evergreen-class container ship Ever Given
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| parentCompany | Imabari Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| roleInEverGivenIncident |
party to compensation negotiations after Suez Canal blockage
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registered owner of Ever Given ⓘ |
| sector | maritime leasing ⓘ |
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: Shoei Kisen Kaisha Description of subject: Shoei Kisen Kaisha is a Japanese ship leasing and management company best known internationally as the owner of the container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal in 2021.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.