Nozomi
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Nozomi is the fastest and most premium Shinkansen (bullet train) service operating on Japan’s Tokaido and Sanyo lines, known for its high speed and frequent departures between major cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nozomi canonical | 14 |
| Nozomi services | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2868480 — 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: Nozomi Context triple: [Central Japan Railway Company, notableService, Nozomi]
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A.
Reona
Reona is the Japanese given name of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Leo Esaki, known for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and semiconductor devices.
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B.
Haruko
Haruko, better known as Empress Shōken, was the consort of Emperor Meiji and a prominent Japanese empress noted for her support of modernization and social welfare.
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C.
Miraitowa
Miraitowa is the futuristic, blue-and-white checkered character created as the official mascot of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, symbolizing tradition, innovation, and a hopeful future.
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D.
Hana
Hana is a person known primarily as the romantic partner of Kip.
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E.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
- 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: Nozomi Target entity description: Nozomi is the fastest and most premium Shinkansen (bullet train) service operating on Japan’s Tokaido and Sanyo lines, known for its high speed and frequent departures between major cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
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A.
Reona
Reona is the Japanese given name of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Leo Esaki, known for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and semiconductor devices.
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B.
Haruko
Haruko, better known as Empress Shōken, was the consort of Emperor Meiji and a prominent Japanese empress noted for her support of modernization and social welfare.
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C.
Miraitowa
Miraitowa is the futuristic, blue-and-white checkered character created as the official mascot of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, symbolizing tradition, innovation, and a hopeful future.
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D.
Hana
Hana is a small, remote town on the eastern coast of Maui, Hawaii, known for its lush landscapes, waterfalls, and the scenic Road to Hana.
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E.
Hana
Hana is a person known primarily as the romantic partner of Kip.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shinkansen service
ⓘ
high-speed rail service ⓘ |
| classAvailable |
Gran Class
ⓘ
Green Car ⓘ Ordinary Class ⓘ |
| comparedWithService |
Hikari
ⓘ
Kodama ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Fukuoka
ⓘ
Hiroshima ⓘ Kyoto ⓘ Nagoya ⓘ Osaka ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ Yokohama ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature | fastest and most premium Shinkansen service on Tokaido and Sanyo lines ⓘ |
| fareCategory | most expensive Tokaido Shinkansen service ⓘ |
| introducedAs | premium express Shinkansen service ⓘ |
| majorTerminus |
Hakata Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shin-Osaka Station ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | hope ⓘ |
| operatesOnLine |
Sanyo Shinkansen
ⓘ
Tokaido Shinkansen ⓘ |
| operator |
Central Japan Railway Company
ⓘ
West Japan Railway Company ⓘ |
| relativeSpeedRank |
fastest Sanyo Shinkansen service
ⓘ
fastest Tokaido Shinkansen service ⓘ |
| reservationPolicy | all seats reserved on many trains ⓘ |
| rollingStock |
N700 series Shinkansen
ⓘ
N700A series ⓘ
surface form:
N700A series Shinkansen
N700S series ⓘ
surface form:
N700S series Shinkansen
|
| serviceClass | premium ⓘ |
| serviceFrequency | high frequency ⓘ |
| servicePattern |
express between major cities
ⓘ
fewest stops among Tokaido Shinkansen services ⓘ |
| serviceType | limited-stop service ⓘ |
| startPoint | Tokyo Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stopsAt |
Hiroshima Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kokura Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyoto Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Nagoya Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Okayama Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin-Kobe Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Shin-Yokohama Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Shinagawa Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ticketType | reserved seat required ⓘ |
| travelTimeFeature | shortest travel time between Tokyo and Osaka on Tokaido Shinkansen ⓘ |
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: Nozomi Description of subject: Nozomi is the fastest and most premium Shinkansen (bullet train) service operating on Japan’s Tokaido and Sanyo lines, known for its high speed and frequent departures between major cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nozomi services
subject surface form:
Sanyō Shinkansen