Kumamoto

E199463

Kumamoto is a major city on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for its historic Kumamoto Castle and role as the capital of Kumamoto Prefecture.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Kumamoto canonical 8
Kumamoto City 2
Kumamoto metropolitan area 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
core city of Japan
affectedBy 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
climate humid subtropical climate
country Japan
governedBy Kumamoto City Hall
hasAirport Kumamoto Airport
hasAttraction Kumamoto Castle
Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
Suizenji Jojuen Garden
hasLeaderTitle Mayor of Kumamoto
hasMascot Kumamon
hasOfficialWebsite https://www.city.kumamoto.jp/
hasPort Yatsushiro Port
surface form: Port of Kumamoto
hasPostalCodeType Japanese postal code
hasRiver Shirakawa River
Tsuboi River
hasSportsTeam Kumamoto Volters
Roasso Kumamoto
hasUniversity Kumamoto University
Shokei University
Sojo University
isCapitalOf Kumamoto Prefecture
isSeatOf Kumamoto Prefectural Government
knownFor Kumamoto Castle
agricultural products
historic samurai culture
horse meat cuisine (basashi)
languageUsed Japanese
localDialect Kyushu dialect
surface form: Kumamoto dialect
locatedIn Kumamoto Prefecture
locatedInIslandGroup Japanese archipelago
surface form: Japanese Archipelago
locatedInRegion Kyushu
surface form: Kyushu region
locatedInTimeZone Japan Standard Time
locatedOn Kyushu
near Mount Aso
railwayServedBy Kyushu Shinkansen
railwayStation Kumamoto Station
roadServedBy Kyūshū Expressway
surface form: Kyushu Expressway

Minami-Kyushu Expressway
subdivisionType city in Kumamoto Prefecture
twinnedWith Guiyang
Heidelberg
Kazan
San Antonio
UTCOffset +09:00
writingSystem Japanese writing system

How these facts were elicited

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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: Kumamoto
Description of subject: Kumamoto is a major city on Japan’s Kyushu island, known for its historic Kumamoto Castle and role as the capital of Kumamoto Prefecture.

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

JST usedByCity Kumamoto
Kyushu hasMajorCity Kumamoto
Heidelberg hasTwinTown Kumamoto
Amakusa Airlines operatesRoute Kumamoto
this entity surface form: Kumamoto–Osaka (Itami)
Mount Aso locatedNear Kumamoto
this entity surface form: Kumamoto City
Kyushu Shinkansen cityServed Kumamoto
Kumamoto, Japan romanization Kumamoto
this entity surface form: Kumamoto-shi
Kumamoto Airport serves Kumamoto
this entity surface form: Kumamoto City
Kumamoto Airport cityServed Kumamoto
2019 Rugby World Cup hostCity Kumamoto
Chūgoku–Shikoku–Kyushu economic region hasEconomicCenter Kumamoto
this entity surface form: Kumamoto metropolitan area