Tokushima Prefecture
E260284
Tokushima Prefecture is a largely rural coastal region on Japan’s Shikoku island, known for its Awa Odori dance festival and scenic mountains and rivers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tokushima Prefecture canonical | 45 |
| Tokushima (Awa no Kuni) | 1 |
| Tokushima dialect | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T574377 — 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: Tokushima Prefecture Context triple: [Shikoku, contains, Tokushima Prefecture]
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A.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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B.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
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C.
Miyazaki Prefecture
Miyazaki Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s southeastern Kyushu island, known for its subtropical climate, scenic beaches, and agricultural production.
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D.
Ōita Prefecture
Ōita Prefecture is a coastal region on Japan’s Kyushu island known for its numerous hot spring resorts, particularly in Beppu and Yufuin.
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E.
Nagasaki Prefecture
Nagasaki Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Kyushu area, known for its historic international port city of Nagasaki and its role as the second city targeted by an atomic bomb in World War II.
- 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: Tokushima Prefecture Target entity description: Tokushima Prefecture is a largely rural coastal region on Japan’s Shikoku island, known for its Awa Odori dance festival and scenic mountains and rivers.
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A.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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B.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
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C.
Miyazaki Prefecture
Miyazaki Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s southeastern Kyushu island, known for its subtropical climate, scenic beaches, and agricultural production.
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D.
Ōita Prefecture
Ōita Prefecture is a coastal region on Japan’s Kyushu island known for its numerous hot spring resorts, particularly in Beppu and Yufuin.
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E.
Nagasaki Prefecture
Nagasaki Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Kyushu area, known for its historic international port city of Nagasaki and its role as the second city targeted by an atomic bomb in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Tokushima Prefecture Description of subject: Tokushima Prefecture is a largely rural coastal region on Japan’s Shikoku island, known for its Awa Odori dance festival and scenic mountains and rivers.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tokushima Prefecture
subject linked to:
Temple 1: Ryōzenji
subject linked to:
Temple 1: Ryōzenji
linked to: Tokushima Prefecture
subject linked to:
Temple 8: Kumadaniji
subject linked to:
Temple 18: Onzanji
subject linked to:
Temple 77: Dōryūji