Sendai Medical Academy
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Sendai Medical Academy was a Japanese medical school in Sendai where the influential Chinese writer Lu Xun studied medicine in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sendai Medical Academy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9046796 — 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: Sendai Medical Academy Context triple: [Lu Xun, educatedAt, Sendai Medical Academy]
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A.
Juntendo University
Juntendo University is a prominent private medical and health sciences university in Tokyo, Japan, known for its long history and affiliated hospitals.
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Sapporo Medical University
Sapporo Medical University is a Japanese public medical school and research institution located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, known for training healthcare professionals and advancing medical science.
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C.
Tokyo Medical School
Tokyo Medical School was a prominent Japanese medical institution in Tokyo that trained many influential physicians and public health leaders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Jikei University School of Medicine
Jikei University School of Medicine is a private medical school and university in Tokyo, Japan, known for its long history of medical education and affiliated teaching hospitals.
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E.
Iwate Medical University
Iwate Medical University is a Japanese private medical university known for its education and research in medicine, dentistry, and related health sciences.
- 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: Sendai Medical Academy Target entity description: Sendai Medical Academy was a Japanese medical school in Sendai where the influential Chinese writer Lu Xun studied medicine in the early 20th century.
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A.
Juntendo University
Juntendo University is a prominent private medical and health sciences university in Tokyo, Japan, known for its long history and affiliated hospitals.
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B.
Sapporo Medical University
Sapporo Medical University is a Japanese public medical school and research institution located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, known for training healthcare professionals and advancing medical science.
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C.
Tokyo Medical School
Tokyo Medical School was a prominent Japanese medical institution in Tokyo that trained many influential physicians and public health leaders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Jikei University School of Medicine
Jikei University School of Medicine is a private medical school and university in Tokyo, Japan, known for its long history of medical education and affiliated teaching hospitals.
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E.
Iwate Medical University
Iwate Medical University is a Japanese private medical university known for its education and research in medicine, dentistry, and related health sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
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medical school ⓘ |
| city | Sendai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryDuringOperation | Empire of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationSystem | Japanese medical education system ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
medical science
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medicine ⓘ |
| hasDiscipline |
anatomy
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clinical medicine ⓘ internal medicine ⓘ pharmacology ⓘ physiology ⓘ public health ⓘ surgery ⓘ |
| hasStudent | Lu Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | medical education institution ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
associated with early education of Lu Xun
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educated influential foreign students ⓘ |
| influenced | Lu Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Sendai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Miyagi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableAlumni | Lu Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Lu Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedInPeriod |
Meiji era
NERFINISHED
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Taisho era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese higher education system ⓘ |
| region | Tohoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Sendai Medical Academy Description of subject: Sendai Medical Academy was a Japanese medical school in Sendai where the influential Chinese writer Lu Xun studied medicine in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.