Yomiuri Shimbun
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Yomiuri Shimbun is one of Japan’s largest and most influential daily newspapers, known for its wide circulation and conservative editorial stance.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yomiuri Shimbun canonical | 14 |
| The Japan News | 5 |
| Yomiuri | 2 |
| The Daily Yomiuri | 1 |
| The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings | 1 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun Online | 1 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun Osaka Head Office | 1 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun Tokyo Head Office | 1 |
| Yomiuri Shimbun Western Head Office | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T927945 — 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: Yomiuri Shimbun Context triple: [Yomiuri Giants, mediaAffiliate, Yomiuri Shimbun]
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A.
Yomiuri Group
Yomiuri Group is a major Japanese media conglomerate best known for its flagship Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper and ownership of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team.
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B.
People's Daily
People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party and one of China's most influential state-run media outlets.
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C.
Saikō-Saibansho
Saikō-Saibansho is the highest judicial authority in Japan, serving as the nation’s court of last resort and overseeing the constitutionality of laws and government actions.
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D.
Nippon Television Network
Nippon Television Network is a major Japanese commercial television broadcaster based in Tokyo and part of the influential Yomiuri media conglomerate.
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E.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
- 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: Yomiuri Shimbun Target entity description: Yomiuri Shimbun is one of Japan’s largest and most influential daily newspapers, known for its wide circulation and conservative editorial stance.
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A.
Yomiuri Group
Yomiuri Group is a major Japanese media conglomerate best known for its flagship Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper and ownership of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team.
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B.
People's Daily
People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party and one of China's most influential state-run media outlets.
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C.
Saikō-Saibansho
Saikō-Saibansho is the highest judicial authority in Japan, serving as the nation’s court of last resort and overseeing the constitutionality of laws and government actions.
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D.
Nippon Television Network
Nippon Television Network is a major Japanese commercial television broadcaster based in Tokyo and part of the influential Yomiuri media conglomerate.
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E.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese newspaper
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daily newspaper ⓘ newspaper ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Yomiuri Giants
ⓘ
Yomiuri Group ⓘ |
| circulation | one of the highest in the world for a daily newspaper ⓘ |
| circulationArea | nationwide in Japan ⓘ |
| city | Tokyo ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| covers |
culture
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economy ⓘ international news ⓘ national news ⓘ politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| distributionFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| format | broadsheet ⓘ |
| formerName |
Yomiuri Shimbun
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Daily Yomiuri
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| foundedBy |
Morimichi Motono
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Shōkichi Shibata ⓘ Takashi Koyasu ⓘ |
| genre | general-interest newspaper ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Osaka edition
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Seibu edition ⓘ Tokyo edition ⓘ |
| hasEnglishLanguageEdition |
Yomiuri Shimbun
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Japan News
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| hasISSN | 0385-3080 ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
Yomiuri Shimbun
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yomiuri Shimbun Online
|
| hasSupplement |
Yomiuri Shimbun
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Japan News
|
| headquartersLocation | Tokyo ⓘ |
| ideology |
pro-US–Japan security alliance
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pro-constitutional revision ⓘ |
| inception | 1874 ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| mediaType |
online
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print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
conservative editorial stance
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influence on Japanese politics ⓘ very large print circulation ⓘ |
| owner |
Yomiuri Group
ⓘ
surface form:
The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings
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| partOf | Yomiuri Group ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
conservative
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pro-Liberal Democratic Party ⓘ |
| publisher |
Yomiuri Group
ⓘ
surface form:
The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings
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| publisherOf | Yomiuri Giants-related content ⓘ |
| publishes |
Yomiuri Shimbun
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Japan News
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| regionServed | Japan ⓘ |
| subjectOf | media studies on Japanese press ⓘ |
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: Yomiuri Shimbun Description of subject: Yomiuri Shimbun is one of Japan’s largest and most influential daily newspapers, known for its wide circulation and conservative editorial stance.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Japan News
this entity surface form:
The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings
this entity surface form:
Yomiuri Shimbun Tokyo Head Office
this entity surface form:
Yomiuri Shimbun Osaka Head Office
this entity surface form:
Yomiuri Shimbun Western Head Office
this entity surface form:
The Japan News
this entity surface form:
Yomiuri
this entity surface form:
The Japan News
this entity surface form:
The Japan News
this entity surface form:
The Japan News
this entity surface form:
The Daily Yomiuri
this entity surface form:
Yomiuri Shimbun Online