Asahi Kasei Corporation
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Asahi Kasei Corporation is a major Japanese multinational chemical company known for its diversified operations in materials, homes, and health care, including pioneering work in battery technology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asahi Kasei | 1 |
| Asahi Kasei Corporation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9018812 — 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: Asahi Kasei Corporation Context triple: [Akira Yoshino, employer, Asahi Kasei Corporation]
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A.
Mitsubishi Kasei
Mitsubishi Kasei was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in Imperial Japanese Navy fighters and other military aircraft during World War II.
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B.
Asahi Group Holdings
Asahi Group Holdings is a major Japanese beverage and food company best known globally for its beer brands and international brewery acquisitions.
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C.
Sumitomo Corporation
Sumitomo Corporation is a major Japanese multinational trading and investment company and one of the core members of the Sumitomo Group conglomerate.
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D.
Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Corporation is a major Japanese multinational trading and investment company involved in a wide range of sectors including energy, machinery, chemicals, and infrastructure projects worldwide.
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E.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
- 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: Asahi Kasei Corporation Target entity description: Asahi Kasei Corporation is a major Japanese multinational chemical company known for its diversified operations in materials, homes, and health care, including pioneering work in battery technology.
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A.
Mitsubishi Kasei
Mitsubishi Kasei was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in Imperial Japanese Navy fighters and other military aircraft during World War II.
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B.
Asahi Group Holdings
Asahi Group Holdings is a major Japanese beverage and food company best known globally for its beer brands and international brewery acquisitions.
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C.
Sumitomo Corporation
Sumitomo Corporation is a major Japanese multinational trading and investment company and one of the core members of the Sumitomo Group conglomerate.
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D.
Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Corporation is a major Japanese multinational trading and investment company involved in a wide range of sectors including energy, machinery, chemicals, and infrastructure projects worldwide.
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E.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical company
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public company ⓘ |
| brand |
Hebel Haus
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Saran Wrap (Japan) ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| formerName | Asahi Bemberg Co., Ltd. ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Shitagau Noguchi ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Health Care segment
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Homes segment ⓘ Materials segment ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
Hideki Kobori
NERFINISHED
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Koshiro Kudo ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | over 40,000 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chiyoda, Tokyo
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Japan ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ |
| inception | 1931 ⓘ |
| industry |
chemicals
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construction materials ⓘ electronics materials ⓘ fibers ⓘ health care ⓘ homes ⓘ materials ⓘ medical devices ⓘ pharmaceuticals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| legalForm | Kabushiki gaisha ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of lithium-ion battery separator technology
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pioneering work in battery technology materials ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| product |
battery separator materials
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dialyzers ⓘ electronic materials ⓘ engineering plastics ⓘ fibers ⓘ housing units ⓘ lithium-ion battery separators ⓘ medical membranes ⓘ microfibers ⓘ nonwovens ⓘ performance polymers ⓘ pharmaceutical products ⓘ synthetic rubber ⓘ |
| stockExchange | Tokyo Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Asahi Kasei Homes
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Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation ⓘ Asahi Kasei Pharma ⓘ Polypore International, LP ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | 3407 ⓘ |
| website | https://www.asahi-kasei.com/ ⓘ |
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: Asahi Kasei Corporation Description of subject: Asahi Kasei Corporation is a major Japanese multinational chemical company known for its diversified operations in materials, homes, and health care, including pioneering work in battery technology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
fellow at Asahi Kasei
linked to: Asahi Kasei Corporation