Port of Fukuoka
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The Port of Fukuoka is a major Japanese seaport complex serving the Fukuoka metropolitan area on Kyushu, handling passenger ferries, cargo traffic, and international maritime routes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Fukuoka canonical | 2 |
| Port of Kanda (Fukuoka) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5172954 — 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 Fukuoka Context triple: [Hakata Port, partOf, Port of Fukuoka]
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A.
Port of Shimonoseki
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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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.
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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D.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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E.
Port of Amagasaki
The Port of Amagasaki is a major industrial and commercial seaport in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, serving the Kansai region with cargo handling and maritime logistics facilities.
- 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 Fukuoka Target entity description: The Port of Fukuoka is a major Japanese seaport complex serving the Fukuoka metropolitan area on Kyushu, handling passenger ferries, cargo traffic, and international maritime routes.
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A.
Port of Shimonoseki
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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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.
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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D.
Port of Nagoya
The Port of Nagoya is Japan’s busiest and largest trading port, serving as a major hub for automobile exports and international maritime commerce.
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E.
Port of Amagasaki
The Port of Amagasaki is a major industrial and commercial seaport in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, serving the Kansai region with cargo handling and maritime logistics facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | seaport ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Busan Port
ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Busan
East China Sea ⓘ Korea Strait ⓘ Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Kyushu ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Fukuoka City Government
ⓘ
linked to:
Fukuoka City government
|
| handles |
cargo traffic
ⓘ
international maritime routes ⓘ passenger ferries ⓘ |
| hasAccess |
Fukuoka Airport
ⓘ
rail network ⓘ road network ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
container yards
ⓘ
customs facilities ⓘ immigration facilities ⓘ warehouses ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cargo handling
ⓘ
international trade gateway ⓘ logistics hub ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Hakata Passenger Terminal
ⓘ
linked to:
Hakata Port
Hakata Port ⓘ container terminals ⓘ cruise ship berths ⓘ ferry terminals ⓘ ro-ro terminals ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fukuoka City
ⓘ
linked to:
Fukuoka
Fukuoka Prefecture ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Kyushu ⓘ |
| near |
Fukuoka urban center
ⓘ
linked to:
Fukuoka
|
| operator |
Fukuoka City Port and Harbor Bureau
ⓘ
linked to:
Port and Harbor Bureau of Fukuoka City
|
| portType |
commercial port
ⓘ
cruise port ⓘ passenger port ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Kyushu region
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyushu
|
| serves |
Fukuoka metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Fukuoka-Kitakyushu metropolitan area
|
| servesTrafficType |
cruise traffic
ⓘ
domestic shipping ⓘ high-speed ferry traffic ⓘ international shipping ⓘ |
| UNLocode | JPFUK ⓘ |
| waterbody | Hakata Bay ⓘ |
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 Fukuoka Description of subject: The Port of Fukuoka is a major Japanese seaport complex serving the Fukuoka metropolitan area on Kyushu, handling passenger ferries, cargo traffic, and international maritime routes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Port of Fukuoka