Yamaha Corporation
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Yamaha Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate best known for producing musical instruments, audio equipment, and a wide range of electronics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamaha Corporation canonical | 6 |
| Yamaha | 1 |
| Yamaha (manufacturing drives for Dreamcast) | 1 |
| Yamaha OPN family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8472788 — 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: Yamaha Corporation Context triple: [Yamaha YM2612, manufacturer, Yamaha Corporation]
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Yamaha Motor Company
Yamaha Motor Company is a Japanese manufacturer best known for its motorcycles, marine products, and power equipment, and is one of the world’s leading powersports brands.
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B.
Yamaha Motor USA
Yamaha Motor USA is the American subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Company that markets, sells, and supports Yamaha-branded motorcycles, marine products, power equipment, and related motorsports vehicles in the United States.
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C.
Yamaha Motor Europe
Yamaha Motor Europe is the European regional branch of Yamaha Motor Company, responsible for distributing and marketing Yamaha motorcycles, marine products, and other motorized vehicles across Europe.
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D.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. is a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer known for producing rubber and plastic components, safety systems, and LEDs, and is closely affiliated with the Toyota Group.
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E.
Suzuki Motor Corporation
Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automaker best known for its compact cars, motorcycles, and all-terrain vehicles sold worldwide.
- 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: Yamaha Corporation Target entity description: Yamaha Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate best known for producing musical instruments, audio equipment, and a wide range of electronics.
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A.
Yamaha Motor Company
Yamaha Motor Company is a Japanese manufacturer best known for its motorcycles, marine products, and power equipment, and is one of the world’s leading powersports brands.
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B.
Yamaha Motor USA
Yamaha Motor USA is the American subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Company that markets, sells, and supports Yamaha-branded motorcycles, marine products, power equipment, and related motorsports vehicles in the United States.
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C.
Yamaha Motor Europe
Yamaha Motor Europe is the European regional branch of Yamaha Motor Company, responsible for distributing and marketing Yamaha motorcycles, marine products, and other motorized vehicles across Europe.
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D.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. is a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer known for producing rubber and plastic components, safety systems, and LEDs, and is closely affiliated with the Toyota Group.
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E.
Suzuki Motor Corporation
Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automaker best known for its compact cars, motorcycles, and all-terrain vehicles sold worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational conglomerate
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musical instrument manufacturer ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| brand | Yamaha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessScope |
design, manufacture and sale of audio equipment
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design, manufacture and sale of musical instruments ⓘ provision of music education services ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Torakusu Yamaha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Hamamatsu, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1887 ⓘ |
| industry |
audio equipment
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consumer electronics ⓘ information technology ⓘ music education ⓘ musical instruments ⓘ professional audio ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ |
| ISIN | JP3942600002 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| logoDescription | three interlocking tuning forks ⓘ |
| memberOf | Keiretsu centered around Yamaha group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motto | Sharing Passion & Performance ⓘ |
| nameChangeDate | 1987 ⓘ |
| notableBrand |
Yamaha Clavinova
NERFINISHED
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Yamaha Motif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalName | Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf | Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (initially, before spin-off) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
AV receivers
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audio mixers ⓘ basses ⓘ digital pianos ⓘ drums ⓘ electronic components ⓘ guitars ⓘ headphones ⓘ keyboards ⓘ music production software ⓘ networked audio systems ⓘ percussion instruments ⓘ pianos ⓘ professional audio equipment ⓘ sound bars ⓘ speakers ⓘ string instruments ⓘ synthesizers ⓘ wind instruments ⓘ |
| spunOff | Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stockExchange | Tokyo Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Yamaha Corporation of America
NERFINISHED
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Yamaha Fine Technologies Co., Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamaha Music Europe GmbH NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamaha Music Japan Co., Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamaha Music Manufacturing Japan Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | 7951 ⓘ |
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: Yamaha Corporation Description of subject: Yamaha Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate best known for producing musical instruments, audio equipment, and a wide range of electronics.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yamaha CS-80
this entity surface form:
Yamaha OPN family
subject surface form:
Hamamatsu
this entity surface form:
Yamaha
this entity surface form:
Yamaha (manufacturing drives for Dreamcast)