Kii Province
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Kii Province was a historical region of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula, corresponding largely to present-day Wakayama Prefecture and parts of Mie Prefecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kii Province canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2213867 — 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: Kii Province Context triple: [Kii Channel, namedAfter, Kii Province]
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A.
Kaga Province
Kaga Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for its wealth, powerful feudal domain, and rich cultural traditions.
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B.
Nagato Province
Nagato Province was a former administrative region of Japan located in what is now western Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
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C.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
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D.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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E.
Ishikawa Prefecture
Ishikawa Prefecture is a region on Japan’s central Honshu island, known for its historic castle town Kanazawa, traditional crafts, and scenic coastline along the Sea of Japan.
- 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: Kii Province Target entity description: Kii Province was a historical region of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula, corresponding largely to present-day Wakayama Prefecture and parts of Mie Prefecture.
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A.
Kaga Province
Kaga Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for its wealth, powerful feudal domain, and rich cultural traditions.
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B.
Nagato Province
Nagato Province was a former administrative region of Japan located in what is now western Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
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C.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
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D.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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E.
Ishikawa Prefecture
Ishikawa Prefecture is a region on Japan’s central Honshu island, known for its historic castle town Kanazawa, traditional crafts, and scenic coastline along the Sea of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former administrative division
ⓘ
historical province of Japan ⓘ |
| abbreviation | 紀伊 ⓘ |
| abolishedAsProvince | Meiji period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Ise Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Izumi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Kawachi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Kii Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ Shima Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamato Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Wakayama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsSite | Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| correspondsTo | Wakayama Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| domainCenter | Wakayama Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | Kii Tokugawa clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadMajorShrine |
Kumano Hayatama Taisha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kumano Hongu Taisha NERFINISHED ⓘ Kumano Nachi Taisha NERFINISHED ⓘ Kumano Sanzan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadMajorTemple |
Kongobu-ji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Koyasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadPortTown |
Shingu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tanabe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Edo period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Kamakura period NERFINISHED ⓘ Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ Nara period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | Ritsuryō province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
mountainous terrain ⓘ rugged coastline ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Honshu ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Kii Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ forestry ⓘ |
| oldNameInJapanese | 紀伊国 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partlyCorrespondsTo | Mie Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partlyReorganizedInto | Mie Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kansai region ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance |
center of Shugendo and mountain worship
ⓘ
important Buddhist pilgrimage area ⓘ important Shinto pilgrimage area ⓘ |
| reorganizedInto | Wakayama Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageContext | Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasOneOf | Gosanke 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: Kii Province Description of subject: Kii Province was a historical region of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula, corresponding largely to present-day Wakayama Prefecture and parts of Mie Prefecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.