Hokkaido University
E10012
Hokkaido University is a major national research university in Sapporo, Japan, known for its broad academic offerings, strong science and agriculture programs, and spacious, park-like campus.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8790 — 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: Hokkaido University Context triple: [Imperial Universities of Japan, member, Hokkaido University]
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Tohoku University
Tohoku University is a prestigious national research university in Sendai, Japan, renowned for its strong science and engineering programs and pioneering admission of women and international students.
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Kyushu University
Kyushu University is a major national research university in Fukuoka, Japan, recognized as one of the country’s leading institutions of higher education and science.
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Kyoto University
Kyoto University is a prestigious national research university in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its strong emphasis on academic freedom and contributions to science and humanities.
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University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo is Japan’s most prestigious and oldest national research university, renowned for its leading role in higher education, science, and public policy in Japan and worldwide.
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Osaka Imperial University
Osaka Imperial University was a major pre-World War II Japanese national university and research institution, particularly noted for its contributions to science and engineering.
- 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: Hokkaido University Target entity description: Hokkaido University is a major national research university in Sapporo, Japan, known for its broad academic offerings, strong science and agriculture programs, and spacious, park-like campus.
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A.
Tohoku University
Tohoku University is a prestigious national research university in Sendai, Japan, renowned for its strong science and engineering programs and pioneering admission of women and international students.
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B.
Kyushu University
Kyushu University is a major national research university in Fukuoka, Japan, recognized as one of the country’s leading institutions of higher education and science.
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Kyoto University
Kyoto University is a prestigious national research university in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its strong emphasis on academic freedom and contributions to science and humanities.
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University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo is Japan’s most prestigious and oldest national research university, renowned for its leading role in higher education, science, and public policy in Japan and worldwide.
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Osaka Imperial University
Osaka Imperial University was a major pre-World War II Japanese national university and research institution, particularly noted for its contributions to science and engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Hokkaido University Description of subject: Hokkaido University is a major national research university in Sapporo, Japan, known for its broad academic offerings, strong science and agriculture programs, and spacious, park-like campus.
Referenced by (102)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sapporo Agricultural College
this entity surface form:
National University Corporation Hokkaido University
this entity surface form:
Sapporo Agricultural College
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University
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parentOrganization
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Hokkaido University
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this entity surface form:
Hokkaido University administration
this entity surface form:
National University Corporation Hokkaido University
this entity surface form:
National University Corporation Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Forest Science, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Forest Science, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Animal Science, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Soil Science, Hokkaido University
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
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parentOrganization
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Hokkaido University
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this entity surface form:
National University Corporation Hokkaido University