Shinonsen
E848248
Shinonsen is a town in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its hot spring resorts and scenic coastal and mountainous landscapes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shinonsen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9975872 — 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: Shinonsen Context triple: [Tajima region, hasPart, Shinonsen]
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A.
Shinkansen
Shinkansen is Japan’s high-speed bullet train network, renowned for its punctuality, safety, and advanced rail technology.
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B.
Rokkō Liner
Rokkō Liner is an automated guideway transit line in Kobe, Japan, connecting the artificial island of Rokkō Island with the mainland.
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C.
Akita Shinkansen
The Akita Shinkansen is a Japanese high-speed "mini-shinkansen" rail line connecting Akita Prefecture with the Tōhoku Shinkansen network, providing fast intercity service to and from Tokyo.
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D.
Odakyu
Odakyu is a Japanese retail and transportation company best known for operating railway lines and department stores in the Greater Tokyo area.
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E.
Sanyo Shinkansen
Sanyo Shinkansen is a high-speed railway line in Japan that connects Osaka with western Honshu cities such as Hiroshima and Fukuoka as part of the Shinkansen network.
- 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: Shinonsen Target entity description: Shinonsen is a town in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its hot spring resorts and scenic coastal and mountainous landscapes.
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A.
Shinkansen
Shinkansen is Japan’s high-speed bullet train network, renowned for its punctuality, safety, and advanced rail technology.
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B.
Rokkō Liner
Rokkō Liner is an automated guideway transit line in Kobe, Japan, connecting the artificial island of Rokkō Island with the mainland.
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C.
Akita Shinkansen
The Akita Shinkansen is a Japanese high-speed "mini-shinkansen" rail line connecting Akita Prefecture with the Tōhoku Shinkansen network, providing fast intercity service to and from Tokyo.
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D.
Odakyu
Odakyu is a Japanese retail and transportation company best known for operating railway lines and department stores in the Greater Tokyo area.
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E.
Sanyo Shinkansen
Sanyo Shinkansen is a high-speed railway line in Japan that connects Osaka with western Honshu cities such as Hiroshima and Fukuoka as part of the Shinkansen network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| borders | Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| governingBody | Shinonsen town government ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
coastal area on the Sea of Japan
ⓘ
hot spring districts ⓘ mountainous interior ⓘ |
| hasGeothermalActivity | yes ⓘ |
| hasHotSpringResort |
Hamasaka Onsen
ⓘ
Yumura Onsen ⓘ |
| hasPort | Hamasaka ⓘ |
| hasSpecialty |
onsen cuisine
ⓘ
snow crab ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | Hamasaka Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Hamasaka Onsen
ⓘ
Yumura Onsen ⓘ hot springs ⓘ mountainous landscapes ⓘ scenic coastal landscapes ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Honshu
ⓘ
Hyōgo Prefecture ⓘ
linked to:
Hyogo Prefecture
Japan ⓘ Kansai region ⓘ |
| locatedInNationalPark | Sanin Kaigan National Park ⓘ |
| partOf | Mikata District, Hyōgo ⓘ |
| railwayLine |
Sanin Main Line
ⓘ
linked to:
San’in Main Line
|
| regionCode | JP-28 ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Hyōgo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | municipality ⓘ |
| timeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +09:00 ⓘ |
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: Shinonsen Description of subject: Shinonsen is a town in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its hot spring resorts and scenic coastal and mountainous landscapes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.