Tottori Prefecture
E446464
Tottori Prefecture is a rural coastal region in western Japan known for its vast sand dunes, scenic Sea of Japan coastline, and low population.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tottori Prefecture canonical | 11 |
| Tottori | 5 |
| 鳥取県 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1135521 — 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: Tottori Prefecture Context triple: [Hyogo Prefecture, borders, Tottori Prefecture]
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A.
Yamaguchi Prefecture
Yamaguchi Prefecture is a western Japanese prefecture on the island of Honshu, known for its strategic location facing both the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan, as well as its historical role in producing influential political leaders.
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B.
Fukui Prefecture
Fukui Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Chūbu area known for its rugged Sea of Japan shoreline, rich history, and significant dinosaur fossil discoveries.
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C.
Tokushima Prefecture
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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D.
Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Kansai area known for its sacred sites on the Kii Peninsula, including Mount Koya and the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tottori Prefecture Target entity description: Tottori Prefecture is a rural coastal region in western Japan known for its vast sand dunes, scenic Sea of Japan coastline, and low population.
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A.
Yamaguchi Prefecture
Yamaguchi Prefecture is a western Japanese prefecture on the island of Honshu, known for its strategic location facing both the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan, as well as its historical role in producing influential political leaders.
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B.
Fukui Prefecture
Fukui Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Chūbu area known for its rugged Sea of Japan shoreline, rich history, and significant dinosaur fossil discoveries.
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C.
Tokushima Prefecture
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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D.
Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Kansai area known for its sacred sites on the Kii Peninsula, including Mount Koya and the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Tottori Prefecture Description of subject: Tottori Prefecture is a rural coastal region in western Japan known for its vast sand dunes, scenic Sea of Japan coastline, and low population.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tottori Prefecture
subject linked to:
Sanin Main Line (partial)
linked to: Tottori Prefecture
linked to: Tottori Prefecture
linked to: Tottori Prefecture