Port of Yokohama
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The Port of Yokohama is one of Japan’s largest and busiest international seaports, serving as a major hub for container shipping, trade, and passenger cruises in the Tokyo Bay area.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Yokohama canonical | 24 |
| Yokohama Harbor | 2 |
| Port of Yokohama (via Tokyo Bay) | 1 |
| Yokohama International Passenger Terminal | 1 |
| Yokohama Port and the sea | 1 |
| Yokohama Port area | 1 |
| Yokohama harbor | 1 |
| Yokohama waterfront | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2814312 — 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: Port of Yokohama Context triple: [Kantō region, containsMajorPort, Port of Yokohama]
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A.
Port of Kobe
The Port of Kobe is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping and maritime trade in the Kansai region.
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B.
Port of Tokyo
The Port of Tokyo is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping, trade, and logistics in the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
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C.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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D.
Port of Kawasaki
The Port of Kawasaki is a major industrial and commercial seaport in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, serving as a key logistics and manufacturing hub within the Greater Tokyo area.
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E.
Port of Chiba
The Port of Chiba is one of Japan’s largest industrial and cargo ports, serving as a major hub for petrochemical and manufacturing industries along the eastern shore of Tokyo Bay.
- 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: Port of Yokohama Target entity description: The Port of Yokohama is one of Japan’s largest and busiest international seaports, serving as a major hub for container shipping, trade, and passenger cruises in the Tokyo Bay area.
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A.
Port of Kobe
The Port of Kobe is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping and maritime trade in the Kansai region.
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B.
Port of Tokyo
The Port of Tokyo is one of Japan’s major international seaports, serving as a key hub for container shipping, trade, and logistics in the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
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C.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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D.
Port of Kawasaki
The Port of Kawasaki is a major industrial and commercial seaport in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, serving as a key logistics and manufacturing hub within the Greater Tokyo area.
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E.
Port of Chiba
The Port of Chiba is one of Japan’s largest industrial and cargo ports, serving as a major hub for petrochemical and manufacturing industries along the eastern shore of Tokyo Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
container port
ⓘ
cruise port ⓘ seaport ⓘ |
| connectedBy |
expressways
ⓘ
rail network ⓘ trunk roads ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
East Asian shipping routes
ⓘ
European shipping routes ⓘ Trans-Pacific shipping routes ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| handlesCargoType |
automobiles
ⓘ
bulk cargo ⓘ containerized cargo ⓘ general cargo ⓘ |
| handlesTrafficType |
cruise ships
ⓘ
domestic coastal shipping ⓘ ferry services ⓘ international trade ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Osanbashi Pier
ⓘ
surface form:
Osanbashi International Passenger Terminal
bulk cargo terminals ⓘ container terminals ⓘ logistics warehouses ⓘ ro-ro terminals ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAttraction |
Minato Mirai
ⓘ
surface form:
Minato Mirai 21 district
Red Brick Warehouse area ⓘ Yamashita Park ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
Daikoku Pier
ⓘ
Honmoku Pier ⓘ Keihin Port area ⓘ
surface form:
Minami Honmoku container terminal
Mizuho Pier ⓘ Osanbashi Pier ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the first Japanese ports opened to foreign trade in the 19th century ⓘ |
| isMajorHubFor |
container shipping
ⓘ
international trade ⓘ passenger cruises ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kanagawa Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokyo Bay ⓘ Yokohama ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| managedBy | Yokohama Port Corporation ⓘ |
| nearbyAirport |
Narita International Airport
ⓘ
Haneda Airport ⓘ
surface form:
Tokyo International Airport
|
| openedAs | treaty port ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1859 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Yokohama
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Yokohama
|
| portCode | YOK ⓘ |
| rankedAmong |
busiest container ports in Japan
ⓘ
largest ports in Japan ⓘ |
| servesCity | Yokohama ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Tokyo metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Tokyo Area
Kantō region ⓘ |
| supportsIndustry |
automobile industry
ⓘ
logistics industry ⓘ manufacturing industry ⓘ tourism industry ⓘ |
| UNLocode | JPYOK ⓘ |
| waterbody |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
Tokyo Bay ⓘ |
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: Port of Yokohama Description of subject: The Port of Yokohama is one of Japan’s largest and busiest international seaports, serving as a major hub for container shipping, trade, and passenger cruises in the Tokyo Bay area.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cosmo Clock 21
this entity surface form:
Yokohama Harbor
this entity surface form:
Yokohama harbor
this entity surface form:
Yokohama International Passenger Terminal
this entity surface form:
Port of Yokohama (via Tokyo Bay)
this entity surface form:
Yokohama Port area
this entity surface form:
Yokohama waterfront
this entity surface form:
Yokohama Port and the sea