Soumu-sho
E523120
Soumu-sho is Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, responsible for overseeing local administration, elections, telecommunications, and postal services.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5481437 — 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: Soumu-sho Context triple: [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, shortName, Soumu-sho]
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A.
Senbatsu
Senbatsu is the popular name for Japan’s annual spring national high school baseball invitational tournament held at Koshien Stadium.
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B.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
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C.
Zaimu-shō
Zaimu-shō is Japan’s Ministry of Finance, the central government body responsible for national fiscal policy, budgeting, taxation, and public finance management.
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D.
Taishin-in
Taishin-in was Japan’s prewar highest judicial body, serving as the nation’s supreme court under the Meiji Constitution before being replaced by the modern Supreme Court of Japan.
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E.
Arinori
Arinori was a given name of Mori Arinori, a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and reformer known for modernizing Japan’s education system.
- 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: Soumu-sho Target entity description: Soumu-sho is Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, responsible for overseeing local administration, elections, telecommunications, and postal services.
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A.
Senbatsu
Senbatsu is the popular name for Japan’s annual spring national high school baseball invitational tournament held at Koshien Stadium.
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B.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
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C.
Zaimu-shō
Zaimu-shō is Japan’s Ministry of Finance, the central government body responsible for national fiscal policy, budgeting, taxation, and public finance management.
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D.
Taishin-in
Taishin-in was Japan’s prewar highest judicial body, serving as the nation’s supreme court under the Meiji Constitution before being replaced by the modern Supreme Court of Japan.
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E.
Arinori
Arinori was a given name of Mori Arinori, a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and reformer known for modernizing Japan’s education system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese government agency
ⓘ
government ministry ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfEstablishment | 2001-01-06 ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Administrative Management Bureau
ⓘ
Information and Communications Bureau ⓘ Local Administration Bureau ⓘ Local Tax Bureau ⓘ Okinawa General Bureau ⓘ Policy Planning and Communications Evaluation Bureau ⓘ Statistics Bureau ⓘ
linked to:
Statistics Bureau of Japan
Telecommunications Bureau ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo
|
| jurisdiction | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Tokyo ⓘ |
| nativeName | 総務省 ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | ja ⓘ |
| officialName | Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ⓘ |
| oversees |
administrative management in Japan
ⓘ
election administration in Japan ⓘ information and communications technology policy in Japan ⓘ local administration in Japan ⓘ local governments in Japan ⓘ postal services in Japan ⓘ radio spectrum management in Japan ⓘ statistics administration in Japan ⓘ telecommunications policy in Japan ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| partOf | Cabinet of Japan ⓘ |
| replaces |
Management and Coordination Agency (Japan)
ⓘ
linked to:
Management and Coordination Agency of Japan
Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan) ⓘ Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Japan) ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
basic resident registration system in Japan
ⓘ
broadcasting administration in Japan ⓘ disaster communications policy in Japan ⓘ national census implementation coordination in Japan ⓘ promotion of e-government in Japan ⓘ radio licensing in Japan ⓘ |
| sector |
election administration
ⓘ
postal regulation ⓘ public administration ⓘ telecommunications regulation ⓘ |
| shortName | MIC ⓘ |
| transcription |
Sōmu-shō
ⓘ
linked to:
Soumu-sho
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| website | https://www.soumu.go.jp/ ⓘ |
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: Soumu-sho Description of subject: Soumu-sho is Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, responsible for overseeing local administration, elections, telecommunications, and postal services.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Soumu-sho