Fukuoka
E38549
Fukuoka is a major Japanese city on the northern shore of Kyushu, known as an important economic, cultural, and transportation hub with a busy international port.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fukuoka canonical | 74 |
| Fukuoka City | 72 |
| Fukuoka, Japan | 6 |
| City of Fukuoka | 3 |
| Fukuoka metropolitan area | 3 |
| Chūō-ku, Fukuoka | 1 |
| Fukuoka city center | 1 |
| Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | 1 |
| Higashi-ku, Fukuoka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T105733 — 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: Fukuoka Context triple: [East China Sea, hasMajorPort, Fukuoka]
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A.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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B.
Nagoya
Nagoya is a major industrial and commercial city in central Japan, known as a manufacturing hub and the capital of Aichi Prefecture.
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C.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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D.
Osaka
Osaka is Japan's third-largest city and a major economic, cultural, and historical hub known for its vibrant street food, bustling nightlife, and role as a commercial center in the Kansai region.
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E.
Higashiōsaka
Higashiōsaka is an industrial and residential city in Japan known for its manufacturing base and location within the Osaka metropolitan area.
- 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: Fukuoka Target entity description: Fukuoka is a major Japanese city on the northern shore of Kyushu, known as an important economic, cultural, and transportation hub with a busy international port.
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A.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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B.
Nagoya
Nagoya is a major industrial and commercial city in central Japan, known as a manufacturing hub and the capital of Aichi Prefecture.
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C.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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D.
Osaka
Osaka is Japan's third-largest city and a major economic, cultural, and historical hub known for its vibrant street food, bustling nightlife, and role as a commercial center in the Kansai region.
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E.
Higashiōsaka
Higashiōsaka is an industrial and residential city in Japan known for its manufacturing base and location within the Osaka metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Fukuoka Description of subject: Fukuoka is a major Japanese city on the northern shore of Kyushu, known as an important economic, cultural, and transportation hub with a busy international port.
Referenced by (162)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Western Japan
subject surface form:
Western Japan
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
City of Fukuoka
this entity surface form:
City of Fukuoka
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
City of Fukuoka
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
subject surface form:
Tosu
subject surface form:
Hakata Gion Yamakasa
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
subject surface form:
Canal City Hakata
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka City
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka, Japan
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka, Japan
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka, Japan
this entity surface form:
Fukuoka, Japan