Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

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Uonuma, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is a rural city known for its high-quality rice production and as the hometown of actor Ken Watanabe.

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Label Occurrences
Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
country Japan
governingBody Uonuma City Government NERFINISHED
hasAdministrativeStatus city
hasAttraction hot spring resorts
rice terraces
ski resorts
hasClimate heavy winter snowfalls
humid continental climate
hasMainIndustry agriculture
rice cultivation
tourism
hasMountain Mount Hakkai NERFINISHED
Mount Komagatake NERFINISHED
hasNeighboringMunicipality Minamiuonuma NERFINISHED
Ojiya NERFINISHED
Tokamachi NERFINISHED
Uonuma District municipalities
hasNotablePerson Ken Watanabe NERFINISHED
hasPrefecturalCapital Niigata (city of Niigata Prefecture) NERFINISHED
hasProduct Koshihikari rice NERFINISHED
local vegetables
sake
hasRegionType snow country
hasRiver Sanashi River NERFINISHED
Uono River NERFINISHED
hasSubdivisionType municipality
hasTransportation Jōetsu Line NERFINISHED
Kan-Etsu Expressway NERFINISHED
National Route 17 NERFINISHED
National Route 252 NERFINISHED
Tadami Line NERFINISHED
isRuralArea true
knownFor Uonuma Koshihikari rice
being hometown of Ken Watanabe
heavy snowfall
high-quality rice production
hot springs
snow country tourism
languageUsed Japanese
locatedIn Chūbu region NERFINISHED
Niigata Prefecture NERFINISHED
locatedOn Honshu
timeZone Japan Standard Time
UTCOffset +09:00
writingSystem Japanese writing system

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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.

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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Description of subject: Uonuma, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is a rural city known for its high-quality rice production and as the hometown of actor Ken Watanabe.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ken Watanabe birthPlace Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan