Tankan survey
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The Tankan survey is a key quarterly business sentiment survey in Japan that gauges the economic outlook and confidence of major corporations and is closely watched as an indicator of the country’s economic health.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tankan survey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1114154 — 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: Tankan survey Context triple: [Bank of Japan, publishes, Tankan survey]
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Targets
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Nielsen
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- 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: Tankan survey Target entity description: The Tankan survey is a key quarterly business sentiment survey in Japan that gauges the economic outlook and confidence of major corporations and is closely watched as an indicator of the country’s economic health.
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A.
Targets
Targets is a 1968 American thriller film, often praised as an early landmark in New Hollywood cinema, that interweaves the story of an aging horror star with a modern-day sniper rampage.
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B.
Nielson
Nielson is a surname and given name that functions as a spelling variant of Nelson, commonly of Scandinavian or English origin.
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C.
Tally
Tally is a common nickname for Tallahassee, the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida.
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D.
Tiksi
Tiksi is a remote Arctic settlement in northern Russia that serves as an important seaport and gateway on the Laptev Sea.
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E.
Nielsen
Nielsen is a common Scandinavian surname, particularly prevalent in Denmark and Norway, traditionally meaning "son of Niels."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business sentiment survey
ⓘ
economic indicator ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Tankan ⓘ |
| conductedBy | Bank of Japan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dataAccessibility | publicly available ⓘ |
| dataFormat | time series ⓘ |
| dataType | survey data ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
large enterprises
ⓘ
small and medium-sized enterprises ⓘ |
| frequency | quarterly ⓘ |
| geographicScope | Japan ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.boj.or.jp/en/statistics/tk/index.htm ⓘ |
| importance | key leading indicator for monetary policy decisions in Japan ⓘ |
| includesIndicator |
capital investment plans
ⓘ
diffusion index for business conditions ⓘ employment conditions ⓘ price outlook ⓘ production plans ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Statistics Department of the Bank of Japan ⓘ |
| measures |
business sentiment
ⓘ
corporate confidence ⓘ economic outlook ⓘ |
| method | questionnaire survey ⓘ |
| originalName | Short-term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan ⓘ |
| publicationSchedule |
early April
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early July ⓘ early October ⓘ mid-December ⓘ |
| publisher | Bank of Japan ⓘ |
| region | Asia ⓘ |
| respondentType |
corporations
ⓘ
financial institutions ⓘ |
| sectorCoverage |
manufacturing
ⓘ
non-manufacturing ⓘ |
| startYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| usedAs | indicator of Japan's economic health ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Policy Board of the Bank of Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
Bank of Japan policymakers
economic analysts ⓘ financial markets ⓘ government policymakers in Japan ⓘ |
| usedFor |
corporate planning
ⓘ
macroeconomic forecasting ⓘ market analysis ⓘ |
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: Tankan survey Description of subject: The Tankan survey is a key quarterly business sentiment survey in Japan that gauges the economic outlook and confidence of major corporations and is closely watched as an indicator of the country’s economic health.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.