Numazu
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Numazu is a coastal city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, known for its fishing industry, scenic views of Mount Fuji, and role as a regional transportation hub.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Numazu canonical | 3 |
| Numazu City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2480101 — 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: Numazu Context triple: [Tōkaidō Main Line, connectsCity, Numazu]
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A.
Urakami
Urakami is a historic district of Nagasaki, Japan, known notably as the area devastated by the atomic bombing during World War II and for its prominent Catholic heritage.
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B.
Maishima
Maishima is a man-made island in Osaka, Japan, known for its sports facilities, event venues, and waterfront recreational areas.
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C.
Izumisano
Izumisano is a coastal city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as the mainland gateway to Kansai International Airport and a hub for regional commerce and travel.
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D.
Ashiya
Ashiya is an affluent coastal city in Japan’s Hyōgo Prefecture, known for its upscale residential neighborhoods and proximity to both Kobe and Osaka.
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E.
Ayabe
Ayabe is a small city in the northern part of Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture, known for its rural landscapes, traditional industries, and spiritual retreat centers.
- 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: Numazu Target entity description: Numazu is a coastal city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, known for its fishing industry, scenic views of Mount Fuji, and role as a regional transportation hub.
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A.
Urakami
Urakami is a historic district of Nagasaki, Japan, known notably as the area devastated by the atomic bombing during World War II and for its prominent Catholic heritage.
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B.
Maishima
Maishima is a man-made island in Osaka, Japan, known for its sports facilities, event venues, and waterfront recreational areas.
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C.
Izumisano
Izumisano is a coastal city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as the mainland gateway to Kansai International Airport and a hub for regional commerce and travel.
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D.
Ashiya
Ashiya is an affluent coastal city in Japan’s Hyōgo Prefecture, known for its upscale residential neighborhoods and proximity to both Kobe and Osaka.
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E.
Ayabe
Ayabe is a small city in the northern part of Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture, known for its rural landscapes, traditional industries, and spiritual retreat centers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality of Japan ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | special city ⓘ |
| borders |
Izu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kannami NERFINISHED ⓘ Mishima NERFINISHED ⓘ Nagaizumi NERFINISHED ⓘ Shimizu NERFINISHED ⓘ Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateClassification | Cfa ⓘ |
| connectedByExpressway |
Shin-Tōmei Expressway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tōmei Expressway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedByRoad |
National Route 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Route 246 NERFINISHED ⓘ National Route 414 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Numazu Imperial Villa Memorial Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Senbonhama Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
commercial fishing
ⓘ
marine products processing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Numazu College of Technology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokai University Numazu Campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPort | Numazu Port NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Numazu Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | regional transportation hub ⓘ |
| hasSisterCity |
Burbank, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lishui, Zhejiang NERFINISHED ⓘ Ueda, Nagano NERFINISHED ⓘ Yantai, Shandong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | Mount Fuji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Numazu Port
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
coastal scenery ⓘ fishing industry ⓘ scenic views of Mount Fuji ⓘ seafood ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chūbu region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shizuoka Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mount Fuji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Kano River
NERFINISHED
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Pacific coast ⓘ Suruga Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByRailwayLine |
Gotemba Line
NERFINISHED
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Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Tōkaidō Main Line 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: Numazu Description of subject: Numazu is a coastal city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, known for its fishing industry, scenic views of Mount Fuji, and role as a regional transportation hub.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shizuoka Prefecture
this entity surface form:
Numazu City