Sunpu
E722418
Sunpu is the former name of the Japanese castle town that developed into modern Shizuoka City, historically known as a key stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunpu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8004193 — 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: Sunpu Context triple: [Shizuoka City, historicalName, Sunpu]
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A.
Takashima
Takashima is a lakeside city in western Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known for its scenic location along Lake Biwa and surrounding mountains.
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B.
Takashima
Takashima is a prominent commercial and waterfront district in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, known for major shopping complexes and modern urban development.
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C.
Kubashima
Kubashima is one of the small, uninhabited islets that make up the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
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D.
Sumoto
Sumoto is a coastal city located on Awaji Island in Japan, known for its hot springs, scenic views of the Seto Inland Sea, and citrus production.
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E.
Tatsuno
Tatsuno is a city in western Japan known for its traditional soy sauce production and historic townscape within Hyogo Prefecture.
- 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: Sunpu Target entity description: Sunpu is the former name of the Japanese castle town that developed into modern Shizuoka City, historically known as a key stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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A.
Takashima
Takashima is a lakeside city in western Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known for its scenic location along Lake Biwa and surrounding mountains.
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B.
Takashima
Takashima is a prominent commercial and waterfront district in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, known for major shopping complexes and modern urban development.
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C.
Kubashima
Kubashima is one of the small, uninhabited islets that make up the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
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D.
Sumoto
Sumoto is a coastal city located on Awaji Island in Japan, known for its hot springs, scenic views of the Seto Inland Sea, and citrus production.
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E.
Tatsuno
Tatsuno is a city in western Japan known for its traditional soy sauce production and historic townscape within Hyogo Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
castle town
ⓘ
historical place ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Tokugawa Hidetada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokugawa Iemitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castleName | Sunpu Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Castle towns in Japan
ⓘ
Former cities in Japan ⓘ History of Shizuoka Prefecture ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| developedInto | Shizuoka City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Tokugawa clan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCastleType | flatland castle ⓘ |
| hasPart | Sunpu Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalFunction |
administrative center of Sunpu Domain
ⓘ
castle town for Sunpu Castle ⓘ |
| knownFor | Tokugawa shogunate stronghold ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Suruga Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Shizuoka City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shizuoka Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernSiteUsage | Sunpu Castle Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernSuccessor | Shizuoka City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearRiver |
Abe River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tomoe River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalRole | Tokugawa administrative center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Chūbu region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tōkai region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleForTokugawaIeyasu |
retirement residence
ⓘ
secondary base of power ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Hepburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
control of Tōkaidō route
ⓘ
gateway between Edo and Kyoto ⓘ |
| transportRoute | Tōkaidō 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: Sunpu Description of subject: Sunpu is the former name of the Japanese castle town that developed into modern Shizuoka City, historically known as a key stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shizuoka City