Tanba Province
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Tanba Province was an old administrative region of Japan located in what is now central Kyoto and Hyōgo Prefectures, historically important as an inland area near Kyoto.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tanba Province canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6389729 — 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: Tanba Province Context triple: [Kameoka, historicalRegion, Tanba Province]
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A.
Serua Province
Serua Province is an administrative region on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji, known for its coastal villages, traditional chiefly systems, and mix of rural landscapes.
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B.
Wele-Nzas Province
Wele-Nzas Province is an inland province of Equatorial Guinea, known for its forested terrain and for containing the country’s administrative capital, Ciudad de la Paz.
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C.
Ngounié Province
Ngounié Province is an inland administrative region in southwestern Gabon known for its forests, rivers, and ethnolinguistic diversity.
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D.
Tak Province
Tak Province is a mountainous region in western Thailand known for its diverse ethnic communities, including a significant Karen population, and its forests, waterfalls, and border trade with Myanmar.
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E.
Loja Province
Loja Province is a region in southern Ecuador known for its mountainous landscapes, cultural heritage, and the city of Loja, a historic center of music and the arts.
- 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: Tanba Province Target entity description: Tanba Province was an old administrative region of Japan located in what is now central Kyoto and Hyōgo Prefectures, historically important as an inland area near Kyoto.
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A.
Serua Province
Serua Province is an administrative region on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji, known for its coastal villages, traditional chiefly systems, and mix of rural landscapes.
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B.
Wele-Nzas Province
Wele-Nzas Province is an inland province of Equatorial Guinea, known for its forested terrain and for containing the country’s administrative capital, Ciudad de la Paz.
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C.
Ngounié Province
Ngounié Province is an inland administrative region in southwestern Gabon known for its forests, rivers, and ethnolinguistic diversity.
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D.
Tak Province
Tak Province is a mountainous region in western Thailand known for its diverse ethnic communities, including a significant Karen population, and its forests, waterfalls, and border trade with Myanmar.
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E.
Loja Province
Loja Province is a region in southern Ecuador known for its mountainous landscapes, cultural heritage, and the city of Loja, a historic center of music and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former province of Japan ⓘ |
| abolishedAsAdministrativeUnit | Meiji period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRoad |
Sanindō
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanyōdō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Kameoka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Former provinces of Japan ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Akechi Mitsuhide
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hatano clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Hosokawa clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| duringEdoPeriod | dividedIntoSeveralDomains ⓘ |
| eraOfSignificance |
Heian period
ⓘ
Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishedInPeriod | Asuka period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedFrom | Tanba kokufu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadDistrict |
Funai District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hikami District NERFINISHED ⓘ Ikaruga District NERFINISHED ⓘ Kasa District NERFINISHED ⓘ Taki District NERFINISHED ⓘ Yosa District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling | Tamba Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalFunction |
agricultural production area for Kyoto
ⓘ
source of timber for Kyoto ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | inland area near Kyoto ⓘ |
| ichinomiya | Izumo Daijingu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Honshu
ⓘ
Kinai region NERFINISHED ⓘ central Hyōgo Prefecture ⓘ central Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Shoku Nihongi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernEquivalentRegion | central-western Kansai region ⓘ |
| nameWrittenWithKanji | 丹波国 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringProvince |
Harima Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Omi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Settsu Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Tajima Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Tango Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamashiro Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Ritsuryō provincial system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousCenter | Izumo Daijingu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
important inland transportation corridor
ⓘ
protected approaches to Kyoto from the west ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Hyōgo Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kyoto Prefecture 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: Tanba Province Description of subject: Tanba Province was an old administrative region of Japan located in what is now central Kyoto and Hyōgo Prefectures, historically important as an inland area near Kyoto.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tanba Highlands