Mazda 626
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The Mazda 626 is a mid-size family car produced by the Japanese automaker Mazda from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, known for its practicality, reliability, and global popularity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mazda 626 canonical | 6 |
| Mazda 626 Coupe | 1 |
| Mazda Capella | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8350309 — 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: Mazda 626 Context triple: [Mazda6, predecessor, Mazda 626]
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A.
Mazda MX-6
The Mazda MX-6 is a front-wheel-drive sport coupe produced by Mazda from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, known for its sleek styling and balanced performance.
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B.
Mazda SC
Mazda SC was a Japanese company football club owned by Mazda that later evolved into the professional J.League team Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
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C.
Mazda6
The Mazda6 is a mid-size family sedan known for its sporty handling, stylish design, and strong value in the mainstream car market.
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D.
Mazda3
The Mazda3 is a popular compact car known for its sporty handling, stylish design, and well-appointed interior.
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E.
Mazda2
The Mazda2 is a subcompact car known for its agile handling, fuel efficiency, and stylish design, positioned as an affordable entry-level model in Mazda’s lineup.
- 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: Mazda 626 Target entity description: The Mazda 626 is a mid-size family car produced by the Japanese automaker Mazda from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, known for its practicality, reliability, and global popularity.
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A.
Mazda MX-6
The Mazda MX-6 is a front-wheel-drive sport coupe produced by Mazda from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, known for its sleek styling and balanced performance.
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B.
Mazda SC
Mazda SC was a Japanese company football club owned by Mazda that later evolved into the professional J.League team Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
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C.
Mazda6
The Mazda6 is a mid-size family sedan known for its sporty handling, stylish design, and strong value in the mainstream car market.
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D.
Mazda3
The Mazda3 is a popular compact car known for its sporty handling, stylish design, and well-appointed interior.
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E.
Mazda2
The Mazda2 is a subcompact car known for its agile handling, fuel efficiency, and stylish design, positioned as an affordable entry-level model in Mazda’s lineup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
automobile model
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family car ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mazda Capella
NERFINISHED
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Mazda MX-6 (coupe derivative in some markets) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| assemblyLocation |
Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Zealand (CKD assembly, some generations) ⓘ United States (Flat Rock, Michigan, for some models) NERFINISHED ⓘ various other countries via CKD kits ⓘ |
| bodyStyle |
4-door sedan
ⓘ
5-door hatchback ⓘ 5-door station wagon ⓘ |
| class | mid-size car ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| discontinued | replaced by Mazda6 in most markets ⓘ |
| engineType |
diesel engines (selected markets)
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inline-four petrol engines ⓘ |
| fuelType |
diesel
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petrol ⓘ |
| generationCount | five main generations (export markets) ⓘ |
| introducedAs | replacement for earlier Capella models in export markets ⓘ |
| layout |
front-engine, four-wheel-drive (selected models)
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front-engine, front-wheel-drive ⓘ front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (early generations) ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Mazda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| notableFor |
affordability
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comfort ⓘ practicality ⓘ reliability ⓘ |
| notableMarketPosition | popular mid-size import in North America during 1980s and 1990s ⓘ |
| platformSharedWith |
Ford Telstar (certain generations)
NERFINISHED
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Mazda MX-6 (certain generations) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Mazda Capella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionEnd | 2002 ⓘ |
| productionStart | 1978 ⓘ |
| safetyFeatures |
anti-lock braking system (ABS) (later models)
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front airbags (later models) ⓘ side-impact protection (later models) ⓘ |
| segment | D-segment ⓘ |
| soldIn |
Africa
NERFINISHED
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Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America NERFINISHED ⓘ North America ⓘ Oceania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Mazda6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetCustomer | family car buyers ⓘ |
| transmission |
automatic transmission
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manual transmission ⓘ |
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: Mazda 626 Description of subject: The Mazda 626 is a mid-size family car produced by the Japanese automaker Mazda from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, known for its practicality, reliability, and global popularity.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mazda Capella
this entity surface form:
Mazda 626 Coupe