YCU
E335431
YCU is the commonly used abbreviation for Yokohama City University, a public research university located in Yokohama, Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| YCU canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3193023 — 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: YCU Context triple: [Yokohama City University, shortName, YCU]
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A.
YUC
YUC is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Mexican state of Yucatán.
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B.
UoY
UoY is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of York, a research-intensive university located in York, England.
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C.
UCA
UCA is the Unicode Collation Algorithm, a Unicode standard that defines a language-independent method for ordering and comparing Unicode text.
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D.
YC
YC is the IATA airline designator assigned to Yamal Airlines, a Russian regional carrier based in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
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E.
MX-YUC
MX-YUC is the UN/LOCODE designation for the Mexican state of Yucatán, used in international trade and transport logistics.
- 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: YCU Target entity description: YCU is the commonly used abbreviation for Yokohama City University, a public research university located in Yokohama, Japan.
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A.
YUC
YUC is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Mexican state of Yucatán.
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B.
UoY
UoY is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of York, a research-intensive university located in York, England.
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C.
UCA
UCA is the Unicode Collation Algorithm, a Unicode standard that defines a language-independent method for ordering and comparing Unicode text.
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D.
YC
YC is the IATA airline designator assigned to Yamal Airlines, a Russian regional carrier based in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
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E.
MX-YUC
MX-YUC is the UN/LOCODE designation for the Mexican state of Yucatán, used in international trade and transport logistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution
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public research university ⓘ university ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Yokohama City University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Yokohama ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| fullName | Yokohama City University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fundingType | public ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStaff | over 500 ⓘ |
| hasAffiliatedHospital |
Yokohama City University Hospital
ⓘ
Yokohama City University Hospital ⓘ
surface form:
Yokohama City University Medical Center
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| hasCampus |
Fukuura Campus
ⓘ
Kanazawa-Hakkei Campus ⓘ Maioka Campus ⓘ Tsurumi Campus ⓘ |
| hasFaculty |
School of Data Science
ⓘ
School of Economics and Business Administration ⓘ School of International Liberal Arts ⓘ School of Medicine ⓘ |
| hasGraduateSchool |
School of Data Science
ⓘ
surface form:
Graduate School of Data Science
Graduate School of Medicine ⓘ Graduate School of Urban Social and Cultural Studies ⓘ |
| hasMottoLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasStudents | over 4000 ⓘ |
| hasType | research university ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/ ⓘ |
| isInMetropolitanArea |
Tokyo metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Tokyo Area
|
| languageOfInstruction |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Japan
ⓘ
Kanagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
bachelor's degree
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doctoral degree ⓘ master's degree ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Yokohama
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surface form:
Yokohama City
|
| ownedBy |
Yokohama
ⓘ
surface form:
Yokohama City
|
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
data science
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ medical sciences ⓘ urban studies ⓘ |
| sector | public ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
business administration
ⓘ
data science ⓘ economics ⓘ international studies ⓘ medicine ⓘ |
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: YCU Description of subject: YCU is the commonly used abbreviation for Yokohama City University, a public research university located in Yokohama, Japan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.