Tokyo Bay
E27281
Tokyo Bay is a large, strategically significant inlet on the Pacific coast of Honshu that serves as the maritime gateway to Japan’s capital, Tokyo.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tokyo Bay canonical | 135 |
| Yokohama Bay | 5 |
| 東京湾 | 2 |
| Tokyo Bay coastal system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T127126 — 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 Bay Context triple: [Japanese Instrument of Surrender, placeSigned, Tokyo Bay]
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A.
Osaka Bay
Osaka Bay is a shallow, industrially important inlet of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, bordered by major cities like Osaka and Kobe and serving as a key hub for shipping and coastal development.
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B.
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by Russia and Japan, known for its rich fisheries, seasonal sea ice, and harsh subarctic climate.
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C.
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, known for its rich fisheries and strategic shipping routes.
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D.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, known for its shallow waters and significant shipping and fishing activities.
- 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 Bay Target entity description: Tokyo Bay is a large, strategically significant inlet on the Pacific coast of Honshu that serves as the maritime gateway to Japan’s capital, Tokyo.
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A.
Osaka Bay
Osaka Bay is a shallow, industrially important inlet of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, bordered by major cities like Osaka and Kobe and serving as a key hub for shipping and coastal development.
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B.
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by Russia and Japan, known for its rich fisheries, seasonal sea ice, and harsh subarctic climate.
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C.
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean located between the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, known for its rich fisheries and strategic shipping routes.
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D.
Tsugaru Strait
The Tsugaru Strait is a narrow body of water separating Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands, serving as a key maritime passage between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, known for its shallow waters and significant shipping and fishing activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Bay Description of subject: Tokyo Bay is a large, strategically significant inlet on the Pacific coast of Honshu that serves as the maritime gateway to Japan’s capital, Tokyo.
Referenced by (143)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yokohama Bay
this entity surface form:
Yokohama Bay
this entity surface form:
Tokyo Bay coastal system