Matsue
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Matsue is a historic castle city and the capital of Shimane Prefecture in western Japan, known for its well-preserved Matsue Castle and scenic lakeside setting between Lake Shinji and Nakaumi.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matsue canonical | 3 |
| Matsue-shi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1769361 — 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: Matsue Context triple: [Chūgoku region, hasMajorCity, Matsue]
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A.
Kashihara
Kashihara is a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan, historically associated with the legendary founding of the Japanese imperial line and home to significant Shinto sites.
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B.
Maibara
Maibara is a city in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known as a regional transportation hub with a Shinkansen station and scenic views of nearby Lake Biwa and surrounding mountains.
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C.
Takamatsu
Takamatsu is a coastal city in Japan’s Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, known as a regional transport hub and gateway to the Seto Inland Sea.
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D.
Okayama
Okayama is a major city in western Japan known for its historic Okayama Castle, the celebrated Korakuen Garden, and its role as a regional transportation and cultural hub.
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E.
Nagahama
Nagahama is a historic lakeside city in central Japan known for its preserved Edo-period streets, Nagahama Castle, and scenic location on the northeastern shore of Lake Biwa.
- 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: Matsue Target entity description: Matsue is a historic castle city and the capital of Shimane Prefecture in western Japan, known for its well-preserved Matsue Castle and scenic lakeside setting between Lake Shinji and Nakaumi.
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A.
Kashihara
Kashihara is a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan, historically associated with the legendary founding of the Japanese imperial line and home to significant Shinto sites.
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B.
Maibara
Maibara is a city in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known as a regional transportation hub with a Shinkansen station and scenic views of nearby Lake Biwa and surrounding mountains.
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C.
Takamatsu
Takamatsu is a coastal city in Japan’s Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, known as a regional transport hub and gateway to the Seto Inland Sea.
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D.
Okayama
Okayama is a major city in western Japan known for its historic Okayama Castle, the celebrated Korakuen Garden, and its role as a regional transportation and cultural hub.
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E.
Nagahama
Nagahama is a historic lakeside city in central Japan known for its preserved Edo-period streets, Nagahama Castle, and scenic location on the northeastern shore of Lake Biwa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
castle town
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city ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | capital city of Shimane Prefecture ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Shimane Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castleType | hirayama-style castle town ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite | Matsue Castle keep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Gesshoji Temple
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kamosu Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ Lafcadio Hearn Former Residence NERFINISHED ⓘ Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake Shinji NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsue Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsue English Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsue History Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsue Vogel Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Miho Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ Nakaumi NERFINISHED ⓘ Shimane Art Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Shiomi Nawate preservation district NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamatsukuri Onsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Yaegaki Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ Yushien Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | City of Water NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPort | Sakaiminato area nearby ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Ōhashi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStructure | Matsue City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Ichibata Electric Railway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanin Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Matsue Castle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
connection to writer Lafcadio Hearn ⓘ historic castle town atmosphere ⓘ scenic lakeside views ⓘ sunsets over Lake Shinji ⓘ traditional tea culture ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Lake Shinji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nakaumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Honshu
ⓘ
Shimane Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Chūgoku region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San’in region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Sea of Japan coast ⓘ |
| partOf | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedBy | Ōhashi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twinnedWith |
Irkutsk
NERFINISHED
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Jilin City NERFINISHED ⓘ New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ Perth NERFINISHED ⓘ Yinchuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Matsue Description of subject: Matsue is a historic castle city and the capital of Shimane Prefecture in western Japan, known for its well-preserved Matsue Castle and scenic lakeside setting between Lake Shinji and Nakaumi.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Matsue
this entity surface form:
Matsue-shi
subject surface form:
Matsue Castle