Port of Beppu
E398398
The Port of Beppu is a major maritime gateway in Beppu, Japan, serving passenger ferries, cargo vessels, and cruise ships visiting the hot spring resort city on Kyushu Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Port of Beppu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3911318 — 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: Port of Beppu Context triple: [Beppu, hasPort, Port of Beppu]
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A.
Port of Naha
The Port of Naha is a major seaport and transportation hub in Okinawa, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries, cargo shipping, and regional trade in the Ryukyu Islands.
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B.
Izumiotsu Port
Izumiotsu Port is a commercial seaport in Izumiotsu, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving as a regional hub for maritime trade and logistics along Osaka Bay.
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C.
Port of Akita
The Port of Akita is a key seaport on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast that supports regional industry, trade, and maritime transport for Akita Prefecture.
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D.
Port of Otaru
The Port of Otaru is a major commercial and passenger seaport on Hokkaido’s Sea of Japan coast, historically serving as a key maritime gateway for trade and transport in northern Japan.
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E.
Miyazaki Port
Miyazaki Port is a coastal seaport in Miyazaki, Japan, serving as a regional hub for maritime transport, logistics, and passenger ferries.
- 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: Port of Beppu Target entity description: The Port of Beppu is a major maritime gateway in Beppu, Japan, serving passenger ferries, cargo vessels, and cruise ships visiting the hot spring resort city on Kyushu Island.
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A.
Port of Naha
The Port of Naha is a major seaport and transportation hub in Okinawa, Japan, serving as a key gateway for passenger ferries, cargo shipping, and regional trade in the Ryukyu Islands.
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B.
Izumiotsu Port
Izumiotsu Port is a commercial seaport in Izumiotsu, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving as a regional hub for maritime trade and logistics along Osaka Bay.
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C.
Port of Akita
The Port of Akita is a key seaport on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast that supports regional industry, trade, and maritime transport for Akita Prefecture.
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D.
Port of Otaru
The Port of Otaru is a major commercial and passenger seaport on Hokkaido’s Sea of Japan coast, historically serving as a key maritime gateway for trade and transport in northern Japan.
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E.
Miyazaki Port
Miyazaki Port is a coastal seaport in Miyazaki, Japan, serving as a regional hub for maritime transport, logistics, and passenger ferries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
ports in Honshu
ⓘ
ports in Shikoku ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
cargo handling area
ⓘ
customs facilities ⓘ ferry berths ⓘ parking area ⓘ passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 別府港 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beppu
ⓘ
Ōita Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater |
Beppu Bay
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Seto Inland Sea ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Kyushu ⓘ |
| near |
Beppu hot spring resort area
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surface form:
Beppu hot spring districts
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| notableFor | access to hot spring resort city ⓘ |
| partOf | regional port network of Ōita Prefecture ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | maritime gateway for Beppu ⓘ |
| region | Kyushu ⓘ |
| serves |
cargo vessels
ⓘ
Beppu City ⓘ
surface form:
city of Beppu
cruise ships ⓘ passenger ferries ⓘ Ōita Prefecture region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportMode | maritime transport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic ferry services
ⓘ
general cargo transport ⓘ tourism-related cruises ⓘ |
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: Port of Beppu Description of subject: The Port of Beppu is a major maritime gateway in Beppu, Japan, serving passenger ferries, cargo vessels, and cruise ships visiting the hot spring resort city on Kyushu Island.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.