Beppu Bay
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Beppu Bay is a coastal bay in Ōita Prefecture on Japan’s Kyushu Island, known for its scenic shoreline and proximity to the hot spring resort city of Beppu.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beppu Bay canonical | 11 |
| Beppu Bay area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3911274 — 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: Beppu Bay Context triple: [Beppu, locatedOnBodyOfWater, Beppu Bay]
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A.
Hakata Bay
Hakata Bay is a coastal bay in northern Kyushu, Japan, known historically as a strategic port and site of major maritime events, including the Mongol invasions.
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B.
Beppu
Beppu is a famous Japanese city on the island of Kyushu renowned for its numerous hot springs and geothermal attractions.
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C.
Ishikari Bay
Ishikari Bay is a coastal bay on the Sea of Japan in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its fishing, shipping activities, and proximity to cities like Otaru and Sapporo.
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D.
Ise Bay
Ise Bay is a large bay in central Japan opening to the Pacific Ocean, known for its important ports, fisheries, and surrounding industrial and urban areas including Nagoya.
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E.
Nagasaki Bay
Nagasaki Bay is a natural harbor on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, historically significant as a key port for international trade and cultural exchange.
- 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: Beppu Bay Target entity description: Beppu Bay is a coastal bay in Ōita Prefecture on Japan’s Kyushu Island, known for its scenic shoreline and proximity to the hot spring resort city of Beppu.
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A.
Hakata Bay
Hakata Bay is a coastal bay in northern Kyushu, Japan, known historically as a strategic port and site of major maritime events, including the Mongol invasions.
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B.
Beppu
Beppu is a famous Japanese city on the island of Kyushu renowned for its numerous hot springs and geothermal attractions.
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C.
Ishikari Bay
Ishikari Bay is a coastal bay on the Sea of Japan in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its fishing, shipping activities, and proximity to cities like Otaru and Sapporo.
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D.
Ise Bay
Ise Bay is a large bay in central Japan opening to the Pacific Ocean, known for its important ports, fisheries, and surrounding industrial and urban areas including Nagoya.
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E.
Nagasaki Bay
Nagasaki Bay is a natural harbor on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, historically significant as a key port for international trade and cultural exchange.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Beppu Bay Description of subject: Beppu Bay is a coastal bay in Ōita Prefecture on Japan’s Kyushu Island, known for its scenic shoreline and proximity to the hot spring resort city of Beppu.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.