Soka University
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Soka University is a private humanistic university in Japan founded by the Soka Gakkai movement, known for its emphasis on peace, global citizenship, and value-creating education.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soka University canonical | 2 |
| Soka education network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3562821 — 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: Soka University Context triple: [Soka Gakkai, hasSubOrganization, Soka University]
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A.
Soka University of America
Soka University of America is a private liberal arts college in Aliso Viejo known for its focus on peace, human rights, and global citizenship.
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B.
Aoyama Gakuin University
Aoyama Gakuin University is a private Christian university in Tokyo known for its strong humanities, social sciences, and business programs and its central urban campus atmosphere.
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C.
Seikei University
Seikei University is a private Japanese university in Tokyo known for educating several prominent political and business leaders, including former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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D.
Setsunan University
Setsunan University is a private Japanese university located in Osaka Prefecture, known for its programs in engineering, pharmacy, and law.
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E.
Hosei University
Hosei University is a major private university in Tokyo, Japan, known for its law, business, and social sciences programs and its role in educating many prominent political and business leaders.
- 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: Soka University Target entity description: Soka University is a private humanistic university in Japan founded by the Soka Gakkai movement, known for its emphasis on peace, global citizenship, and value-creating education.
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A.
Soka University of America
Soka University of America is a private liberal arts college in Aliso Viejo known for its focus on peace, human rights, and global citizenship.
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B.
Aoyama Gakuin University
Aoyama Gakuin University is a private Christian university in Tokyo known for its strong humanities, social sciences, and business programs and its central urban campus atmosphere.
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C.
Seikei University
Seikei University is a private Japanese university in Tokyo known for educating several prominent political and business leaders, including former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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D.
Setsunan University
Setsunan University is a private Japanese university located in Osaka Prefecture, known for its programs in engineering, pharmacy, and law.
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E.
Hosei University
Hosei University is a major private university in Tokyo, Japan, known for its law, business, and social sciences programs and its role in educating many prominent political and business leaders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution
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private university ⓘ |
| campusType | suburban ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| educationalPhilosophy |
humanistic education
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value-creating education ⓘ |
| emphasis |
global citizenship
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human rights ⓘ international education ⓘ peace ⓘ student-centered learning ⓘ |
| focusArea |
environmental studies
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human rights education ⓘ international relations ⓘ peace and conflict studies ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Soka Gakkai ⓘ |
| founder | Daisaku Ikeda ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation |
Soka University of America
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Soka University self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Soka education network
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| hasFacility |
Soka University Central Library
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Soka University Ikeda Auditorium ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ sports facilities ⓘ student dormitories ⓘ |
| hasFaculty |
Faculty of Business Administration
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Faculty of Economics ⓘ Faculty of Education ⓘ Faculty of Law ⓘ Faculty of Letters ⓘ Faculty of Science and Engineering ⓘ |
| hasGraduateSchool |
Graduate School of Economics
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Graduate School of Education ⓘ Graduate School of Engineering ⓘ Graduate School of Law ⓘ Graduate School of Letters ⓘ |
| hasPartnerInstitution | Soka University of America ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
Japanese language programs for international students
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doctoral programs ⓘ exchange programs ⓘ graduate programs ⓘ undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
focus on peace studies
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global citizenship education ⓘ strong international exchange network ⓘ value-creating pedagogy ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan ⓘ |
| motto | Discover Your Potential ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Soka Gakkai ⓘ |
| type | private, non-profit ⓘ |
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: Soka University Description of subject: Soka University is a private humanistic university in Japan founded by the Soka Gakkai movement, known for its emphasis on peace, global citizenship, and value-creating education.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Soka education network