Sapporo
E40366
Sapporo is the capital and largest city of Japan’s northern Hokkaido prefecture, known for its annual snow festival, beer, and ski resorts.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sapporo canonical | 144 |
| City of Sapporo | 17 |
| Sapporo City | 5 |
| Sapporo city | 4 |
| Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | 2 |
| Sapporo City Government | 1 |
| Sapporo city center | 1 |
| Teine-ku, Sapporo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T105779 — 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: Sapporo Context triple: [Japan Standard Time, usedByRegion, Sapporo]
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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.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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C.
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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D.
Kyoto
Kyoto is a historic Japanese city renowned for its well-preserved temples, traditional wooden houses, and role as the former imperial capital.
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E.
Fukuoka
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.
- 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: Sapporo Target entity description: Sapporo is the capital and largest city of Japan’s northern Hokkaido prefecture, known for its annual snow festival, beer, and ski resorts.
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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.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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C.
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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D.
Kyoto
Kyoto is a historic Japanese city renowned for its well-preserved temples, traditional wooden houses, and role as the former imperial capital.
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E.
Fukuoka
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Sapporo Description of subject: Sapporo is the capital and largest city of Japan’s northern Hokkaido prefecture, known for its annual snow festival, beer, and ski resorts.
Referenced by (175)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
City of Sapporo
this entity surface form:
City of Sapporo
this entity surface form:
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
this entity surface form:
Sapporo city
subject surface form:
Shinhidaka
this entity surface form:
City of Sapporo
subject surface form:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Forest Science, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Animal Science, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Soil Science, Hokkaido University
this entity surface form:
Sapporo City