Sendai
E40916
Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sendai canonical | 140 |
| City of Sendai | 4 |
| Sendai city center | 4 |
| Sendai City | 2 |
| Sendai, Japan | 2 |
| Sendai Area | 1 |
| 仙台 | 1 |
| 仙台市 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T105781 — 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: Sendai Context triple: [Japan Standard Time, usedByRegion, Sendai]
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A.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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B.
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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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.
Sapporo
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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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: Sendai Target entity description: Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
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A.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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B.
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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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.
Sapporo
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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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 (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: Sendai Description of subject: Sendai is the largest city in Japan’s Tōhoku region, known for its lush greenery, historic sites, and status as a major economic and cultural center in northeastern Honshu.
Referenced by (155)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Faculty of Medicine
subject surface form:
Department of Pediatrics, Tohoku University Faculty of Medicine
subject surface form:
Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku University Faculty of Medicine
subject surface form:
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Faculty of Medicine
subject surface form:
Department of Biochemistry, Tohoku University Faculty of Medicine
subject surface form:
Department of Physiology, Tohoku University
subject surface form:
Department of Pharmacology, Tohoku University
subject surface form:
Department of Medical Informatics, Tohoku University
this entity surface form:
Sendai city center
this entity surface form:
Sendai, Japan
subject surface form:
Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University
subject surface form:
Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
this entity surface form:
Sendai, Japan
subject surface form:
Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University
this entity surface form:
Sendai city center
subject surface form:
Faculty of Economics, Tohoku University
subject surface form:
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University