Toyokan
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Toyokan is a gallery building of the Tokyo National Museum that primarily showcases Asian art and archaeological artifacts from regions outside Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Toyokan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10056939 — 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: Toyokan Context triple: [Tokyo National Museum, hasBuilding, Toyokan]
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A.
Toyokawa
Toyokawa is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic Toyokawa Inari temple and manufacturing industries.
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B.
Daigo
Daigo was the era name (nengō) in Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Daigo in the early 10th century.
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C.
Sendai
Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
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D.
Yawata
Yawata is a city in Japan known for its historic Iwashimizu Hachimangū Shrine and its location in the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture.
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E.
Yokosuka
Yokosuka is a coastal city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its major naval base and strategic location at the mouth of Tokyo Bay.
- 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: Toyokan Target entity description: Toyokan is a gallery building of the Tokyo National Museum that primarily showcases Asian art and archaeological artifacts from regions outside Japan.
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A.
Toyokawa
Toyokawa is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic Toyokawa Inari temple and manufacturing industries.
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B.
Daigo
Daigo was the era name (nengō) in Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Daigo in the early 10th century.
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C.
Sendai
Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
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D.
Yawata
Yawata is a city in Japan known for its historic Iwashimizu Hachimangū Shrine and its location in the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture.
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E.
Yokosuka
Yokosuka is a coastal city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its major naval base and strategic location at the mouth of Tokyo Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gallery building
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museum wing ⓘ |
| category |
Art museum building in Japan
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Asian art museum section ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| excludesPrimaryFocus | Japanese art ⓘ |
| hasExhibitionType |
permanent exhibition
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special exhibition ⓘ |
| languageOfSignage |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Taito, Tokyo
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linked to:
Taitō
Tokyo ⓘ Ueno Park ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Tokyo National Museum ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Tokyo National Museum ⓘ |
| partOf | Tokyo National Museum ⓘ |
| partOfComplex |
Tokyo National Museum main campus
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linked to:
Tokyo National Museum
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| primaryExhibitionFocus |
Asian art
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archaeological artifacts ⓘ |
| showcasesArtFromRegion |
Central Asia
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China ⓘ Egypt ⓘ India ⓘ Korea ⓘ Other regions outside Japan ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ West Asia ⓘ
linked to:
Western Asia
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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: Toyokan Description of subject: Toyokan is a gallery building of the Tokyo National Museum that primarily showcases Asian art and archaeological artifacts from regions outside Japan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.