Shizuoka Prefecture
E479212
Shizuoka Prefecture is a coastal region in central Japan known for its views of Mount Fuji, tea production, and location along the Pacific coast between Tokyo and Nagoya.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shizuoka Prefecture canonical | 185 |
| Shizuoka | 5 |
| eastern Shizuoka Prefecture | 2 |
| 静岡県 | 2 |
| Shizuoka Prefecture (eastern part) | 1 |
| Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan | 1 |
| Suruga Province | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1173932 — 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: Shizuoka Prefecture Context triple: [Great Kanto earthquake, location, Shizuoka Prefecture]
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A.
Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Kantō area, known for its major port city of Yokohama, historic Kamakura, and proximity to Tokyo.
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B.
Kōchi Prefecture
Kōchi Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s Shikoku Island, known for its mountainous terrain, Pacific shoreline, and traditional festivals.
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C.
Aichi Prefecture
Aichi Prefecture is a central Japanese prefecture on Honshu known for its capital Nagoya, major automotive industry centered around Toyota, and role as a key economic and transportation hub.
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D.
Okayama Prefecture
Okayama Prefecture is a region in western Japan on the main island of Honshu, known for its historic Okayama Castle, Korakuen Garden, and production of white peaches and grapes.
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E.
Miyazaki Prefecture
Miyazaki Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s southeastern Kyushu island, known for its subtropical climate, scenic beaches, and agricultural production.
- 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: Shizuoka Prefecture Target entity description: Shizuoka Prefecture is a coastal region in central Japan known for its views of Mount Fuji, tea production, and location along the Pacific coast between Tokyo and Nagoya.
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A.
Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Kantō area, known for its major port city of Yokohama, historic Kamakura, and proximity to Tokyo.
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B.
Kōchi Prefecture
Kōchi Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s Shikoku Island, known for its mountainous terrain, Pacific shoreline, and traditional festivals.
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C.
Aichi Prefecture
Aichi Prefecture is a central Japanese prefecture on Honshu known for its capital Nagoya, major automotive industry centered around Toyota, and role as a key economic and transportation hub.
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D.
Okayama Prefecture
Okayama Prefecture is a region in western Japan on the main island of Honshu, known for its historic Okayama Castle, Korakuen Garden, and production of white peaches and grapes.
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E.
Miyazaki Prefecture
Miyazaki Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s southeastern Kyushu island, known for its subtropical climate, scenic beaches, and agricultural production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Shizuoka Prefecture Description of subject: Shizuoka Prefecture is a coastal region in central Japan known for its views of Mount Fuji, tea production, and location along the Pacific coast between Tokyo and Nagoya.
Referenced by (197)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fujinomiya, Japan
subject linked to:
Fujinomiya, Japan
linked to: Shizuoka Prefecture
subject linked to:
Shizuoka City, Japan
linked to: Shizuoka Prefecture
linked to: Shizuoka Prefecture
linked to: Shizuoka Prefecture
linked to: Shizuoka Prefecture
subject linked to:
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan