Tokyo Medical School
E217685
Tokyo Medical School was a prominent Japanese medical institution in Tokyo that trained many influential physicians and public health leaders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tokyo Medical School canonical | 2 |
| Tokyo Igakko (Tokyo Medical School) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1861309 — 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: Tokyo Medical School Context triple: [Gotō Shinpei, educatedAt, Tokyo Medical School]
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A.
University of Tokyo Hospital
University of Tokyo Hospital is a major academic medical center in Tokyo, Japan, known for advanced clinical care, medical education, and cutting-edge research.
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B.
Sapporo Medical University
Sapporo Medical University is a Japanese public medical school and research institution located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, known for training healthcare professionals and advancing medical science.
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C.
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese medical school and research institution renowned for training physicians and advancing biomedical science.
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D.
Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese biomedical research and graduate education center renowned for its work in infectious diseases, genomics, and advanced medical science.
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E.
Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University is a Japanese private university specializing in medical and pharmaceutical education and research, located in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.
- 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: Tokyo Medical School Target entity description: Tokyo Medical School was a prominent Japanese medical institution in Tokyo that trained many influential physicians and public health leaders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
University of Tokyo Hospital
University of Tokyo Hospital is a major academic medical center in Tokyo, Japan, known for advanced clinical care, medical education, and cutting-edge research.
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B.
Sapporo Medical University
Sapporo Medical University is a Japanese public medical school and research institution located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, known for training healthcare professionals and advancing medical science.
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C.
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese medical school and research institution renowned for training physicians and advancing biomedical science.
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D.
Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese biomedical research and graduate education center renowned for its work in infectious diseases, genomics, and advanced medical science.
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E.
Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University is a Japanese private university specializing in medical and pharmaceutical education and research, located in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
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medical school ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
medicine
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public health ⓘ |
| focus |
clinical training
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medical education ⓘ public health training ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
contributed to development of modern Japanese medicine
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contributed to development of public health in Japan ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kantō region
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Tokyo ⓘ Tokyo Prefecture ⓘ |
| notableFor |
training influential physicians
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training public health leaders ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Japan
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Tokyo metropolitan area ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| trained |
physicians
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public health leaders ⓘ |
| typeOfInstitution | professional school ⓘ |
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: Tokyo Medical School Description of subject: Tokyo Medical School was a prominent Japanese medical institution in Tokyo that trained many influential physicians and public health leaders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tokyo Igakko (Tokyo Medical School)