Sapporo Breweries
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Sapporo Breweries is a major Japanese beer and beverage company best known for producing Sapporo Beer, one of Japan’s oldest and most internationally recognized beer brands.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sapporo Breweries canonical | 6 |
| Sapporo Breweries Limited | 1 |
| Sapporo Holdings | 1 |
| Sapporo Holdings Limited | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7363900 — 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: Sapporo Breweries Context triple: [Ebisu Garden Place, developer, Sapporo Breweries]
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A.
Sapporo Beer
Sapporo Beer is a well-known Japanese beer brand recognized for its crisp, clean lager and long history as one of Japan’s oldest and most widely exported brews.
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B.
Yebisu Beer
Yebisu Beer is a premium Japanese beer brand, known for its rich, malty flavor and long brewing tradition under Sapporo Breweries.
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C.
Asia Pacific Breweries
Asia Pacific Breweries is a major Singapore-based brewing company best known for producing Tiger Beer and operating breweries and beer brands across the Asia-Pacific region.
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D.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. is a Japanese confectionery and food company best known for products like Pocky and Pretz, as well as its iconic advertising presence in Osaka.
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E.
BS Asahi
BS Asahi is a Japanese satellite television channel operated by TV Asahi that broadcasts a variety of sports, news, and entertainment programming.
- 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: Sapporo Breweries Target entity description: Sapporo Breweries is a major Japanese beer and beverage company best known for producing Sapporo Beer, one of Japan’s oldest and most internationally recognized beer brands.
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A.
Sapporo Beer
Sapporo Beer is a well-known Japanese beer brand recognized for its crisp, clean lager and long history as one of Japan’s oldest and most widely exported brews.
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B.
Yebisu Beer
Yebisu Beer is a premium Japanese beer brand, known for its rich, malty flavor and long brewing tradition under Sapporo Breweries.
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C.
Asia Pacific Breweries
Asia Pacific Breweries is a major Singapore-based brewing company best known for producing Tiger Beer and operating breweries and beer brands across the Asia-Pacific region.
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D.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. is a Japanese confectionery and food company best known for products like Pocky and Pretz, as well as its iconic advertising presence in Osaka.
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E.
BS Asahi
BS Asahi is a Japanese satellite television channel operated by TV Asahi that broadcasts a variety of sports, news, and entertainment programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
beer company
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brewery ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| acquired | Sleeman Breweries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquiredCompanyCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Sapporo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brand |
Black Label
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mugi to Hop NERFINISHED ⓘ Sapporo NERFINISHED ⓘ Yebisu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitor |
Asahi Breweries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kirin Brewery Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Suntory Beer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| exportsTo |
Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Seibei Nakagawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1876 ⓘ |
| hasBrewery |
Chiba
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hokkaido NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ Shizuoka NERFINISHED ⓘ Tohoku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusiness |
beer production
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non-alcoholic beverages ⓘ ready-to-drink beverages ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary | Sleeman Breweries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Tokyo ⓘ |
| industry |
alcoholic beverages
ⓘ
brewing ⓘ soft drinks ⓘ |
| logoFeature | star ⓘ |
| market |
domestic Japanese beer market
ⓘ
global beer market ⓘ |
| notableFor |
international beer distribution
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oldest beer brands in Japan ⓘ |
| originalLocation | Sapporo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Sapporo Holdings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
Black Label
NERFINISHED
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Premium Beer ⓘ Sapporo Beer NERFINISHED ⓘ Yebisu Beer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | Tokyo Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesIngredient |
barley malt
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corn ⓘ hops ⓘ rice ⓘ |
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: Sapporo Breweries Description of subject: Sapporo Breweries is a major Japanese beer and beverage company best known for producing Sapporo Beer, one of Japan’s oldest and most internationally recognized beer brands.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sapporo Holdings
this entity surface form:
Sapporo Breweries Limited
this entity surface form:
Sapporo Holdings Limited