Uji tea
E517563
Uji tea is a renowned Japanese green tea celebrated for its high quality and long history of production in the Uji region near Kyoto.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uji tea canonical | 2 |
| Uji Tea Festival | 1 |
| Uji matcha | 1 |
| Uji-cha | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5389692 — 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: Uji tea Context triple: [Uji, teaProductionRegion, Uji tea]
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A.
The Tea
The Tea is an 1880 oil painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt that depicts two women in a refined domestic interior, exemplifying her focus on the private lives of women.
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B.
Fuze Tea
Fuze Tea is a ready-to-drink iced tea beverage brand owned and marketed globally by The Coca-Cola Company.
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C.
TEA
TEA is the state government agency responsible for overseeing public primary and secondary education in Texas.
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D.
Ming Tea
Ming Tea is a fictional 1960s-style rock band fronted by Mike Myers that appears in the Austin Powers film series, including "Austin Powers in Goldmember."
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E.
East Frisian tea
East Frisian tea is a strong, sweetened black tea blend central to the tea culture and social rituals of the East Frisia region in northwest Germany.
- 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: Uji tea Target entity description: Uji tea is a renowned Japanese green tea celebrated for its high quality and long history of production in the Uji region near Kyoto.
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A.
The Tea
The Tea is an 1880 oil painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt that depicts two women in a refined domestic interior, exemplifying her focus on the private lives of women.
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B.
Fuze Tea
Fuze Tea is a ready-to-drink iced tea beverage brand owned and marketed globally by The Coca-Cola Company.
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C.
TEA
TEA is the state government agency responsible for overseeing public primary and secondary education in Texas.
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D.
Ming Tea
Ming Tea is a fictional 1960s-style rock band fronted by Mike Myers that appears in the Austin Powers film series, including "Austin Powers in Goldmember."
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E.
East Frisian tea
East Frisian tea is a strong, sweetened black tea blend central to the tea culture and social rituals of the East Frisia region in northwest Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese green tea
ⓘ
regional specialty food ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Byodo-in Temple vicinity
ⓘ
Japanese tea ceremony NERFINISHED ⓘ Uji City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brewingTemperature | relatively low water temperature compared to black tea ⓘ |
| climateRequirement | mild climate ⓘ |
| color | vivid green liquor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| cultivationMethod | shaded cultivation for matcha and gyokuro ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
featured in Japanese literature and art
ⓘ
symbol of traditional Kyoto tea culture ⓘ |
| exportedTo | various countries worldwide ⓘ |
| flavorProfile |
low astringency
ⓘ
mellow ⓘ umami-rich ⓘ |
| harvestSeason |
first flush in spring
ⓘ
multiple flushes through early summer ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfDevelopment |
Edo period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| irrigationSource | Uji River vicinity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high quality
ⓘ
long history of production ⓘ refined flavor ⓘ |
| leafProcessing |
dried
ⓘ
rolled ⓘ steamed ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCultivar |
Gokou
NERFINISHED
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Samidori NERFINISHED ⓘ Uji-hikari NERFINISHED ⓘ Yabukita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketPosition | premium tea segment ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Uji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionMethod |
careful shading before harvest for high-grade teas
ⓘ
hand-picked for premium grades ⓘ |
| region |
Kansai region
ⓘ
Kyoto Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reputation | one of Japan's most famous teas ⓘ |
| soilRequirement | well-drained soil ⓘ |
| teaCategory |
gyokuro
ⓘ
kabusecha ⓘ matcha ⓘ sencha NERFINISHED ⓘ tencha ⓘ |
| teaType | green tea ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ceremonial matcha
ⓘ
everyday drinking tea ⓘ |
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: Uji tea Description of subject: Uji tea is a renowned Japanese green tea celebrated for its high quality and long history of production in the Uji region near Kyoto.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Uji
this entity surface form:
Uji-cha
this entity surface form:
Uji matcha
this entity surface form:
Uji Tea Festival