Nippon Kobo
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Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nippon Kobo canonical | 1 |
| Nippon Kōbō | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3483722 — 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: Nippon Kobo Context triple: [Charlotte Perriand, designedFor, Nippon Kobo]
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A.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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B.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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C.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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D.
Kawada Industries
Kawada Industries is a Japanese engineering and construction company known for its work on major infrastructure projects, including prominent bridges and civil works.
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E.
Nippon Kokusai Koku Kogyo K.K.
Nippon Kokusai Koku Kogyo K.K. was a Japanese aircraft manufacturer active before and during World War II, known for producing military and transport aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army.
- 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: Nippon Kobo Target entity description: Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
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A.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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B.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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C.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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D.
Kawada Industries
Kawada Industries is a Japanese engineering and construction company known for its work on major infrastructure projects, including prominent bridges and civil works.
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E.
Nippon Kokusai Koku Kogyo K.K.
Nippon Kokusai Koku Kogyo K.K. was a Japanese aircraft manufacturer active before and during World War II, known for producing military and transport aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architecture firm
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design firm ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Charlotte Perriand ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| field |
architecture
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design ⓘ |
| industry | architecture and design ⓘ |
| locationCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| movement | modernism ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaborations with modernist designers ⓘ |
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: Nippon Kobo Description of subject: Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nippon Kōbō