Fukui Prefecture
E425352
Fukui Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Chūbu area known for its rugged Sea of Japan shoreline, rich history, and significant dinosaur fossil discoveries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fukui Prefecture canonical | 4 |
| Echizen Province | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1058152 — 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: Fukui Prefecture Context triple: [Kyoto Prefecture, borders, Fukui Prefecture]
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A.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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B.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
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C.
Tokushima Prefecture
Tokushima Prefecture is a largely rural coastal region on Japan’s Shikoku island, known for its Awa Odori dance festival and scenic mountains and rivers.
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D.
Miyazaki Prefecture
Miyazaki Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s southeastern Kyushu island, known for its subtropical climate, scenic beaches, and agricultural production.
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E.
Ōita Prefecture
Ōita Prefecture is a coastal region on Japan’s Kyushu island known for its numerous hot spring resorts, particularly in Beppu and Yufuin.
- 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: Fukui Prefecture Target entity description: Fukui Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Chūbu area known for its rugged Sea of Japan shoreline, rich history, and significant dinosaur fossil discoveries.
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A.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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B.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
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C.
Tokushima Prefecture
Tokushima Prefecture is a largely rural coastal region on Japan’s Shikoku island, known for its Awa Odori dance festival and scenic mountains and rivers.
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D.
Miyazaki Prefecture
Miyazaki Prefecture is a largely rural coastal prefecture on Japan’s southeastern Kyushu island, known for its subtropical climate, scenic beaches, and agricultural production.
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E.
Ōita Prefecture
Ōita Prefecture is a coastal region on Japan’s Kyushu island known for its numerous hot spring resorts, particularly in Beppu and Yufuin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | prefecture of Japan ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Gifu Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hyōgo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishikawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyoto Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Shiga Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Fukui City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Awara City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eiheiji Town NERFINISHED ⓘ Fukui City NERFINISHED ⓘ Katsuyama City NERFINISHED ⓘ Obama City NERFINISHED ⓘ Ono City NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabae City NERFINISHED ⓘ Sakai City (Fukui) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tsuruga City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| governedBy | Governor of Fukui Prefecture ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Sea of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect | Fukui dialect ⓘ |
| hasFeature | heavy winter snowfall ⓘ |
| hasOfficialBird | Snowy heron ⓘ |
| hasOfficialFlower | Narcissus ⓘ |
| hasOfficialSymbol | Fukui Prefecture flag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialTree | Pine tree ⓘ |
| hasPort | Tsuruga Port NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayService |
Hokuriku Shinkansen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
JR West Hokuriku Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTouristAttraction |
Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eiheiji Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins NERFINISHED ⓘ Maruoka Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ Mikata Five Lakes NERFINISHED ⓘ Tojinbo Cliffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Echizen Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wakasa Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Echizen crab
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Echizen washi paper NERFINISHED ⓘ dinosaur fossil discoveries ⓘ eyeglass frame production in Sabae ⓘ rugged Sea of Japan coastline ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Chūbu region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Honshu ⓘ |
| majorIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
eyewear manufacturing ⓘ fishing ⓘ nuclear power-related industry ⓘ textiles ⓘ |
| region | Hokuriku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
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: Fukui Prefecture Description of subject: Fukui Prefecture is a coastal region in Japan’s Chūbu area known for its rugged Sea of Japan shoreline, rich history, and significant dinosaur fossil discoveries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Echizen Province