Port of Shimonoseki
E457520
The Port of Shimonoseki is a major Japanese seaport and transportation hub on the western tip of Honshu, serving as a key gateway for domestic and international maritime traffic, including routes to Kyushu and South Korea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Shimonoseki canonical | 4 |
| Shimonoseki waterfront | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4627179 — 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 Shimonoseki Context triple: [Kanmon Straits, hasPort, Port of Shimonoseki]
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A.
Takamatsu Port
Takamatsu Port is a major maritime hub in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries and cargo traffic connecting Shikoku with surrounding islands and mainland regions.
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B.
Kitakyushu Port
Kitakyushu Port is a major Japanese seaport and logistics hub in Fukuoka Prefecture that serves as a key gateway for domestic and international maritime trade.
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C.
Hakata Port
Hakata Port is a major international seaport in Fukuoka, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries and cargo between Kyushu, the rest of Japan, and East Asia.
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D.
Port of Nagasaki
The Port of Nagasaki is a historic Japanese harbor that has long served as a key gateway for international trade and cultural exchange, particularly during Japan’s periods of limited foreign contact.
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E.
Port of Sakai-Semboku
The Port of Sakai-Semboku is a major industrial and commercial seaport in the Osaka metropolitan area, serving as a key logistics hub for maritime trade in western Japan.
- 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 Shimonoseki Target entity description: The Port of Shimonoseki is a major Japanese seaport and transportation hub on the western tip of Honshu, serving as a key gateway for domestic and international maritime traffic, including routes to Kyushu and South Korea.
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A.
Takamatsu Port
Takamatsu Port is a major maritime hub in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries and cargo traffic connecting Shikoku with surrounding islands and mainland regions.
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B.
Kitakyushu Port
Kitakyushu Port is a major Japanese seaport and logistics hub in Fukuoka Prefecture that serves as a key gateway for domestic and international maritime trade.
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C.
Hakata Port
Hakata Port is a major international seaport in Fukuoka, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries and cargo between Kyushu, the rest of Japan, and East Asia.
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D.
Port of Nagasaki
The Port of Nagasaki is a historic Japanese harbor that has long served as a key gateway for international trade and cultural exchange, particularly during Japan’s periods of limited foreign contact.
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E.
Port of Sakai-Semboku
The Port of Sakai-Semboku is a major industrial and commercial seaport in the Osaka metropolitan area, serving as a key logistics hub for maritime trade in western Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
seaport
ⓘ
transportation hub ⓘ |
| administeredBy | City of Shimonoseki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Busan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Donghae NERFINISHED ⓘ Kitakyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ Moji Port NERFINISHED ⓘ South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
cargo handling facilities
ⓘ
container terminal ⓘ customs facilities ⓘ ferry terminal ⓘ international passenger terminal ⓘ logistics centers ⓘ ro-ro terminal ⓘ warehouse facilities ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInfrastructure |
Kanmon Bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kanmon Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRouteType |
container shipping
ⓘ
domestic ferry routes ⓘ international ferry routes ⓘ roll-on/roll-off services ⓘ |
| isGatewayFor |
domestic maritime traffic
ⓘ
international maritime traffic ⓘ |
| locatedAtWesternTipOf | Honshu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Shimonoseki
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yamaguchi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Honshu
ⓘ
Kanmon Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Seto Inland Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Strait of Shimonoseki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kanmon Port complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsRoleIn |
Japan–South Korea maritime transport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
regional economy of Yamaguchi Prefecture ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Chugoku region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northern Kyushu ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gateway between Honshu and Kyushu
ⓘ
gateway between Japan and South Korea ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo transport
ⓘ
fishing activities ⓘ logistics ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ tourism ⓘ trade ⓘ vehicle transport ⓘ |
| waterway | Kanmon Straits shipping lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Shimonoseki Description of subject: The Port of Shimonoseki is a major Japanese seaport and transportation hub on the western tip of Honshu, serving as a key gateway for domestic and international maritime traffic, including routes to Kyushu and South Korea.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yamaguchi Prefecture