Shikoku Saburō
E520027
Shikoku Saburō is an alternative name for the Yoshino River, a major waterway flowing through Japan’s Shikoku region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shikoku Saburō canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5315352 — 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: Shikoku Saburō Context triple: [Yoshino River, alsoKnownAs, Shikoku Saburō]
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A.
Kabayama Sukenori
Kabayama Sukenori was a Japanese naval officer and statesman of the Meiji era who became the first Japanese colonial administrator of Taiwan following its cession from Qing China.
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B.
Sakakibara Shōzō
Sakakibara Shōzō was an Imperial Japanese Army general who served as a senior military commander during World War II, including in the Pacific theater.
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C.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Ichijō Tadaka
Ichijō Tadaka was a Japanese court noble of the Ichijō family in the late Edo period, best known as the father of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
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E.
Shōda Hidesaburō
Shōda Hidesaburō was a prominent Japanese businessman and industrialist best known as the father of Empress Michiko of 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: Shikoku Saburō Target entity description: Shikoku Saburō is an alternative name for the Yoshino River, a major waterway flowing through Japan’s Shikoku region.
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A.
Kabayama Sukenori
Kabayama Sukenori was a Japanese naval officer and statesman of the Meiji era who became the first Japanese colonial administrator of Taiwan following its cession from Qing China.
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B.
Sakakibara Shōzō
Sakakibara Shōzō was an Imperial Japanese Army general who served as a senior military commander during World War II, including in the Pacific theater.
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C.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Ichijō Tadaka
Ichijō Tadaka was a Japanese court noble of the Ichijō family in the late Edo period, best known as the father of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
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E.
Shōda Hidesaburō
Shōda Hidesaburō was a prominent Japanese businessman and industrialist best known as the father of Empress Michiko of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Yoshino-gawa
ⓘ
linked to:
Yoshino River
|
| alternativeNameOf | Yoshino River ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Kii Channel ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Pacific Ocean basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Ocean drainage basin
|
| flowsThrough |
Kōchi Prefecture
ⓘ
Tokushima Prefecture ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeNameLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceIn | Tokushima Prefecture ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 四国三郎 ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn | Kii Channel ⓘ |
| hasNotableCityOnBanks | Tokushima ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Shikoku ⓘ |
| hasSourceRegion | Shikoku Mountains ⓘ |
| isMajorWaterwayOf |
Shikoku region
ⓘ
linked to:
Shikoku
|
| isOneOf |
major rivers of Japan
ⓘ
major rivers of Shikoku ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Japan
ⓘ
Shikoku ⓘ |
| usedFor |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power ⓘ irrigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
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: Shikoku Saburō Description of subject: Shikoku Saburō is an alternative name for the Yoshino River, a major waterway flowing through Japan’s Shikoku region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.