Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd.
E621565
Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. is the original name of Kyocera, a Japanese multinational manufacturer known for its ceramics-based components, electronics, and office equipment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6824981 — 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: Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. Context triple: [Kyocera, originalName, Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd.]
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A.
Nikken Sekkei
Nikken Sekkei is a major Japanese architectural and engineering firm renowned for designing prominent large-scale projects and urban landmarks worldwide.
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B.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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C.
Kyo-ya Company
Kyo-ya Company is a hospitality and real estate firm best known for owning and operating prominent resort properties in Hawaii, including the historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki.
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D.
Kawada Industries
Kawada Industries is a Japanese engineering and construction company known for its work on major infrastructure projects, including prominent bridges and civil works.
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E.
Nippon Kobo
Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
- 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: Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. Target entity description: Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. is the original name of Kyocera, a Japanese multinational manufacturer known for its ceramics-based components, electronics, and office equipment.
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A.
Nikken Sekkei
Nikken Sekkei is a major Japanese architectural and engineering firm renowned for designing prominent large-scale projects and urban landmarks worldwide.
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B.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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C.
Kyo-ya Company
Kyo-ya Company is a hospitality and real estate firm best known for owning and operating prominent resort properties in Hawaii, including the historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki.
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D.
Kawada Industries
Kawada Industries is a Japanese engineering and construction company known for its work on major infrastructure projects, including prominent bridges and civil works.
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E.
Nippon Kobo
Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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manufacturing company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kyocera
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kyoto Ceramic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnMaterial | ceramics ⓘ |
| brand | Kyocera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreTechnology | fine ceramics ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Kyocera Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Kazuo Inamori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Kazuo Inamori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Kazuo Inamori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainBusinessArea |
components for electronics
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industrial equipment ⓘ information equipment ⓘ telecommunications equipment ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Kyocera brand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Kyoto, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1959 ⓘ |
| industry |
ceramics
ⓘ
electronics ⓘ office equipment ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locationFounded | Kyoto, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesIn | global market ⓘ |
| product |
ceramic components
ⓘ
electronic components ⓘ electronic devices ⓘ industrial ceramics ⓘ multifunction copiers ⓘ office equipment ⓘ printers ⓘ semiconductor packages ⓘ telecommunications equipment ⓘ |
| successor | Kyocera Corporation 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: Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. Description of subject: Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. is the original name of Kyocera, a Japanese multinational manufacturer known for its ceramics-based components, electronics, and office equipment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kyocera