Nagasaki
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Nagasaki is a major port city in southwestern Japan historically known as one of the two cities devastated by an American atomic bomb during World War II.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nagasaki canonical | 66 |
| Nagasaki City | 9 |
| City of Nagasaki | 8 |
| Nagasaki, Japan | 7 |
| Nagasaki City Government | 2 |
| Nagasaki city | 1 |
| Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan | 1 |
| city of Nagasaki | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140553 — 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: Nagasaki Context triple: [atomic bombing of Nagasaki, hasCity, Nagasaki]
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A.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a Japanese city on Honshu Island internationally known as the first place in history to be devastated by an atomic bomb during World War II.
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B.
Sendai
Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
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C.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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D.
Fukuoka
Fukuoka is a major Japanese city on the northern shore of Kyushu, known as an important economic, cultural, and transportation hub with a busy international port.
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E.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
- 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: Nagasaki Target entity description: Nagasaki is a major port city in southwestern Japan historically known as one of the two cities devastated by an American atomic bomb during World War II.
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A.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a Japanese city on Honshu Island internationally known as the first place in history to be devastated by an atomic bomb during World War II.
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B.
Sendai
Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
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C.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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D.
Fukuoka
Fukuoka is a major Japanese city on the northern shore of Kyushu, known as an important economic, cultural, and transportation hub with a busy international port.
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E.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Nagasaki Description of subject: Nagasaki is a major port city in southwestern Japan historically known as one of the two cities devastated by an American atomic bomb during World War II.
Referenced by (95)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mikuma
this entity surface form:
Nagasaki, Japan
this entity surface form:
Nagasaki City
this entity surface form:
Nagasaki City Government
this entity surface form:
City of Nagasaki
this entity surface form:
City of Nagasaki
this entity surface form:
Nagasaki City Government
this entity surface form:
Nagasaki City
subject surface form:
Western Japan
this entity surface form:
Nagasaki, Japan
this entity surface form:
city of Nagasaki
this entity surface form:
City of Nagasaki
this entity surface form:
Nagasaki, Japan
this entity surface form:
City of Nagasaki
this entity surface form:
City of Nagasaki
this entity surface form:
City of Nagasaki