Cape Sōya
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Cape Sōya is the northernmost point of Japan’s main islands, known for its windswept coastal scenery and views toward Russia across the Sōya Strait.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cape Sōya canonical | 2 |
| Cape Noshappu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6021352 — 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: Cape Sōya Context triple: [Wakkanai, hasLandmark, Cape Sōya]
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A.
Cape Chikyu
Cape Chikyu is a scenic coastal headland in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, known for its dramatic cliffs and panoramic views over the Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Cape Inubō
Cape Inubō is a rocky, windswept headland on Japan’s Pacific coast in Chiba Prefecture, known for its lighthouse, dramatic sea cliffs, and powerful ocean waves.
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C.
Cape Shiretoko
Cape Shiretoko is a remote, rugged headland at the northeastern tip of Japan’s Shiretoko Peninsula, known for its dramatic coastal scenery and rich wildlife within the Shiretoko World Heritage area.
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D.
Hahajima
Hahajima is a remote, subtropical island in Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago, known for its rugged terrain, rich endemic biodiversity, and relative isolation.
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E.
Chirinkotan
Chirinkotan is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain of the northwest Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Cape Sōya Target entity description: Cape Sōya is the northernmost point of Japan’s main islands, known for its windswept coastal scenery and views toward Russia across the Sōya Strait.
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A.
Cape Chikyu
Cape Chikyu is a scenic coastal headland in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, known for its dramatic cliffs and panoramic views over the Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Cape Inubō
Cape Inubō is a rocky, windswept headland on Japan’s Pacific coast in Chiba Prefecture, known for its lighthouse, dramatic sea cliffs, and powerful ocean waves.
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C.
Cape Shiretoko
Cape Shiretoko is a remote, rugged headland at the northeastern tip of Japan’s Shiretoko Peninsula, known for its dramatic coastal scenery and rich wildlife within the Shiretoko World Heritage area.
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D.
Hahajima
Hahajima is a remote, subtropical island in Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago, known for its rugged terrain, rich endemic biodiversity, and relative isolation.
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E.
Chirinkotan
Chirinkotan is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain of the northwest Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cape
ⓘ
geographical feature ⓘ |
| accessibleBy | road ⓘ |
| accessibleFrom | Wakkanai city center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| administeredBy | City of Wakkanai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateCharacteristic |
cold temperatures
ⓘ
strong winds ⓘ |
| coordinates | 45.522°N 141.936°E ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| extremePointOf | Japan’s main islands ⓘ |
| extremePointType | northernmost point ⓘ |
| faces | Sakhalin Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMonument |
Monument of the Northernmost Point of Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peace Monument NERFINISHED ⓘ World Peace Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFacility |
Sōya Misaki Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lighthouse ⓘ tourist information center ⓘ |
| hasNearbyIndustry |
dairy farming
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ |
| hasNearbyIsland |
Bentenjima
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hamenai Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyRoad |
Japan National Route 238
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Japan National Route 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement | Sōya settlement ⓘ |
| hasViewAcross | Sōya Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasViewTowards | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTouristDestination | true ⓘ |
| JapaneseName | 宗谷岬 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
harsh winter weather
ⓘ
views toward Russia ⓘ windswept coastal scenery ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hokkaidō
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sōya Subprefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Wakkanai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Hokkaidō Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater |
Sea of Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sōya Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Japan’s main islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Hokkaidō Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| separates |
Sea of Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sea of Okhotsk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tourismType | scenic tourism ⓘ |
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: Cape Sōya Description of subject: Cape Sōya is the northernmost point of Japan’s main islands, known for its windswept coastal scenery and views toward Russia across the Sōya Strait.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cape Noshappu