Yokohama
E10676
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yokohama canonical | 252 |
| City of Yokohama | 24 |
| Yokohama City | 7 |
| Yokohama, Japan | 7 |
| Port of Yokohama | 2 |
| Yokohama city | 2 |
| Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8753 — 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: Yokohama Context triple: [Japan, majorCity, Yokohama]
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A.
Tokyo
Tokyo is Japan’s largest metropolis and a global center of finance, culture, technology, and transportation.
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B.
Osaka
Osaka is Japan's third-largest city and a major economic, cultural, and historical hub known for its vibrant street food, bustling nightlife, and role as a commercial center in the Kansai region.
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C.
Kyoto
Kyoto is a historic Japanese city renowned for its well-preserved temples, traditional wooden houses, and role as the former imperial capital.
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D.
Osaka Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture is a populous and economically vital region in Japan’s Kansai area, centered on the city of Osaka and known as a major hub of commerce, industry, and culture.
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E.
Shanghai
Shanghai is a major global financial hub and China’s largest city, known for its modern skyline, historic waterfront, and role as a center of international business and trade.
- 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: Yokohama Target entity description: Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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A.
Tokyo
Tokyo is Japan’s largest metropolis and a global center of finance, culture, technology, and transportation.
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B.
Osaka
Osaka is Japan's third-largest city and a major economic, cultural, and historical hub known for its vibrant street food, bustling nightlife, and role as a commercial center in the Kansai region.
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C.
Kyoto
Kyoto is a historic Japanese city renowned for its well-preserved temples, traditional wooden houses, and role as the former imperial capital.
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D.
Osaka Prefecture
Osaka Prefecture is a populous and economically vital region in Japan’s Kansai area, centered on the city of Osaka and known as a major hub of commerce, industry, and culture.
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E.
Shanghai
Shanghai is a major global financial hub and China’s largest city, known for its modern skyline, historic waterfront, and role as a center of international business and trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Yokohama Description of subject: Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
Referenced by (295)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yokohama City
this entity surface form:
City of Yokohama
subject surface form:
Japan
this entity surface form:
City of Yokohama
subject surface form:
Outer Garden (Sankeien)
subject surface form:
three-storied pagoda of Old Tōmyōji
subject surface form:
Inner Garden (Sankeien)
subject surface form:
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University