Himeji Station
E534422
Himeji Station is a major railway hub in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and several conventional lines and providing access to the famous Himeji Castle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Himeji Station canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2470063 — 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: Himeji Station Context triple: [West Japan Railway Company, hasKeyHub, Himeji Station]
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A.
Osaka Station
Osaka Station is a major railway terminal and transportation hub in Osaka, Japan, serving numerous local and long-distance train lines and connecting key commercial districts.
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B.
Suita Station
Suita Station is a railway station in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving passengers on the JR Kyoto Line (Tōkaidō Main Line).
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C.
Shin-Osaka Station
Shin-Osaka Station is a major railway and Shinkansen hub in Osaka that serves as a key gateway connecting the city with other regions across Japan.
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D.
Hiroshima Station
Hiroshima Station is the main railway hub of Hiroshima, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and regional rail lines.
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E.
Osaki Station
Osaki Station is a major railway hub in Tokyo, Japan, serving multiple JR East lines and connecting central Tokyo with surrounding suburban areas.
- 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: Himeji Station Target entity description: Himeji Station is a major railway hub in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and several conventional lines and providing access to the famous Himeji Castle.
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A.
Osaka Station
Osaka Station is a major railway terminal and transportation hub in Osaka, Japan, serving numerous local and long-distance train lines and connecting key commercial districts.
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B.
Suita Station
Suita Station is a railway station in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving passengers on the JR Kyoto Line (Tōkaidō Main Line).
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C.
Shin-Osaka Station
Shin-Osaka Station is a major railway and Shinkansen hub in Osaka that serves as a key gateway connecting the city with other regions across Japan.
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D.
Hiroshima Station
Hiroshima Station is the main railway hub of Hiroshima, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and regional rail lines.
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E.
Osaki Station
Osaki Station is a major railway hub in Tokyo, Japan, serving multiple JR East lines and connecting central Tokyo with surrounding suburban areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shinkansen station
ⓘ
railway station ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Himeji-jo (Himeji Castle) area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsWith | Himeji Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
automatic ticket machines
ⓘ
coin lockers ⓘ midori-no-madoguchi ticket office NERFINISHED ⓘ restaurants ⓘ restrooms ⓘ shops ⓘ ticket gates ⓘ tourist information center ⓘ waiting room ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandmark | Otemae-dori (main street to Himeji Castle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTransportFacility |
Himeji bus terminal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
taxi stand ⓘ |
| hasService |
Shinkansen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
limited express ⓘ local trains ⓘ |
| hasSignageLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| hasStationBuildingType | elevated station building ⓘ |
| hasStructureType |
at-grade
ⓘ
elevated tracks ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
regional transportation in Harima area
ⓘ
tourism in Himeji ⓘ |
| isMajorStopOn |
San'yō Main Line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanyō Shinkansen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
JR West network
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanyo Electric Railway network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Himeji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Hyōgo Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kansai region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| operator |
Sanyo Electric Railway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Japan Railway Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | West Japan Railway Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platformType |
island platform
ⓘ
side platform ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | passenger transport hub ⓘ |
| railwayLine |
Bantan Line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
JR Kobe Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Kishin Line NERFINISHED ⓘ San'yō Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanyō Shinkansen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | Himeji city center ⓘ |
| servesAsGatewayTo | Himeji Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Himeji Station Description of subject: Himeji Station is a major railway hub in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and several conventional lines and providing access to the famous Himeji Castle.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sanyō Shinkansen