Yonezawa, Yamagata
E701895
Yonezawa, Yamagata is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic castle town heritage, Yonezawa beef, and connections to the Uesugi samurai clan.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yonezawa, Dewa Province | 1 |
| Yonezawa, Yamagata canonical | 1 |
| Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan | 1 |
| central Yonezawa city | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7816431 — 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: Yonezawa, Yamagata Context triple: [Asaka, Saitama, hasSisterCity, Yonezawa, Yamagata]
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A.
Ichinoseki, Iwate
Ichinoseki, Iwate is a city in southern Iwate Prefecture, Japan, known as a regional hub with historical sites and access to scenic areas such as the Geibi Gorge.
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B.
Kitakami, Iwate
Kitakami, Iwate is a city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, known for its scenic Kitakami River, springtime cherry blossoms, and historical cultural sites.
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C.
Ōshū, Iwate
Ōshū, Iwate is a city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, known for its historical sites, agricultural production, and scenic rural landscapes.
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D.
Utsunomiya
Utsunomiya is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, known as a regional commercial center and for its specialty gyoza (dumplings).
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E.
Yamagata
Yamagata is a city in northern Japan that serves as the capital of Yamagata Prefecture, known for its hot springs, winter sports, and cherry production.
- 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: Yonezawa, Yamagata Target entity description: Yonezawa, Yamagata is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic castle town heritage, Yonezawa beef, and connections to the Uesugi samurai clan.
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A.
Ichinoseki, Iwate
Ichinoseki, Iwate is a city in southern Iwate Prefecture, Japan, known as a regional hub with historical sites and access to scenic areas such as the Geibi Gorge.
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B.
Kitakami, Iwate
Kitakami, Iwate is a city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, known for its scenic Kitakami River, springtime cherry blossoms, and historical cultural sites.
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C.
Ōshū, Iwate
Ōshū, Iwate is a city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, known for its historical sites, agricultural production, and scenic rural landscapes.
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D.
Utsunomiya
Utsunomiya is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, known as a regional commercial center and for its specialty gyoza (dumplings).
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E.
Yamagata
Yamagata is a city in northern Japan that serves as the capital of Yamagata Prefecture, known for its hot springs, winter sports, and cherry production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality of Japan ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Yamagata Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateClassification | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Yonezawa Women’s Junior College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFestival |
Uesugi Festival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Uesugi Snow Lantern Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalConnectionTo |
Uesugi Kenshin
NERFINISHED
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Uesugi Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ Uesugi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Matsugasaki Park
NERFINISHED
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Namekawa Onsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Onogawa Onsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Uesugi Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ Yonezawa Castle ruins NERFINISHED ⓘ Yonezawa City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorRoad |
National Route 121
NERFINISHED
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National Route 13 NERFINISHED ⓘ National Route 287 NERFINISHED ⓘ National Route 348 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Yonezawa Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Matsukawa River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mogami River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| hasSisterCity |
Bozeman, Montana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tainan, Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Yamagata University Faculty of Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Uesugi clan heritage
NERFINISHED
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Yonezawa beef NERFINISHED ⓘ historic castle town ⓘ hot springs ⓘ rice production ⓘ sake brewing ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Tōhoku region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yamagata Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Honshu ⓘ |
| primaryIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
food processing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| servedByRailLine |
Yamagata Shinkansen
NERFINISHED
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Yonesaka Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Ōu Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +9 ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Japanese writing system ⓘ |
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: Yonezawa, Yamagata Description of subject: Yonezawa, Yamagata is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic castle town heritage, Yonezawa beef, and connections to the Uesugi samurai clan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yonezawa, Dewa Province
this entity surface form:
central Yonezawa city
this entity surface form:
Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan