Noboribetsu
E517206
Noboribetsu is a hot spring resort city in Hokkaido, Japan, famed for its dramatic volcanic landscapes and numerous onsen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Noboribetsu canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3643004 — 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: Noboribetsu Context triple: [Shikotsu-Toya National Park, locatedNear, Noboribetsu]
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A.
Rusutsu
Rusutsu is a major ski and resort area in Japan known for its extensive, high-quality powder snow terrain and year-round outdoor activities.
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B.
Marunouchi
Marunouchi is a central Tokyo business district known for its concentration of corporate headquarters, upscale offices, and proximity to Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace.
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C.
Hakatajima
Hakatajima is an island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, known as one of the key islands linked by bridges along the scenic Shimanami Kaido cycling route between Honshu and Shikoku.
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D.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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E.
Takamikura
Takamikura is the ornate imperial throne used in Kyoto for the enthronement ceremonies of Japanese emperors.
- 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: Noboribetsu Target entity description: Noboribetsu is a hot spring resort city in Hokkaido, Japan, famed for its dramatic volcanic landscapes and numerous onsen.
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A.
Rusutsu
Rusutsu is a major ski and resort area in Japan known for its extensive, high-quality powder snow terrain and year-round outdoor activities.
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B.
Marunouchi
Marunouchi is a central Tokyo business district known for its concentration of corporate headquarters, upscale offices, and proximity to Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace.
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C.
Hakatajima
Hakatajima is an island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, known as one of the key islands linked by bridges along the scenic Shimanami Kaido cycling route between Honshu and Shikoku.
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D.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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E.
Takamikura
Takamikura is the ornate imperial throne used in Kyoto for the enthronement ceremonies of Japanese emperors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
hot spring resort ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | city ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasDistrict | Noboribetsu Onsen district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
hot spring hotels
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public bathhouses ⓘ ryokan ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalFeature |
fumaroles
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hot mud pools ⓘ sulfurous steam vents ⓘ volcanic crater ⓘ |
| hasHotSpringType |
acidic spring
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alum spring ⓘ iron-rich spring ⓘ radium spring ⓘ saline spring ⓘ sulfur spring ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalGovernment | Noboribetsu City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTouristAttraction |
Jigokudani (Hell Valley)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Noboribetsu Bear Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura NERFINISHED ⓘ Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe NERFINISHED ⓘ Noboribetsu Onsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Oyunuma Pond NERFINISHED ⓘ Oyunuma River Natural Footbath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Jigokudani (Hell Valley)
NERFINISHED
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Noboribetsu Onsen NERFINISHED ⓘ hot springs ⓘ onsen ⓘ volcanic landscapes ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hokkaido
NERFINISHED
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Iburi Subprefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Muroran
NERFINISHED
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Pacific Ocean ⓘ Shiraoi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Hokkaido Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestRailwayStation | Noboribetsu Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
hot spring industry
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| servedBy | Hokkaido Expressway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| transportConnection | JR Muroran Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +09:00 ⓘ |
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: Noboribetsu Description of subject: Noboribetsu is a hot spring resort city in Hokkaido, Japan, famed for its dramatic volcanic landscapes and numerous onsen.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.