Shinano Province
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Shinano Province was an old administrative region of Japan, roughly corresponding to modern Nagano Prefecture, known for its mountainous terrain and historical significance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shinano Province canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2474714 — 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: Shinano Province Context triple: [Shinano River, historicalProvince, Shinano Province]
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A.
Etchū Province
Etchū Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now Toyama Prefecture on the coast of the Sea of Japan.
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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.
Mutsu Province
Mutsu Province was a large and historically significant region in northeastern Honshu, Japan, that played a key role in early Japanese expansion and administration.
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D.
Gifu Prefecture
Gifu Prefecture is a landlocked region in central Japan’s Chūbu area, known for its mountainous terrain, traditional towns like Takayama, and the UNESCO-listed historic villages of Shirakawa-go.
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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: Shinano Province Target entity description: Shinano Province was an old administrative region of Japan, roughly corresponding to modern Nagano Prefecture, known for its mountainous terrain and historical significance.
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A.
Etchū Province
Etchū Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now Toyama Prefecture on the coast of the Sea of Japan.
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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.
Mutsu Province
Mutsu Province was a large and historically significant region in northeastern Honshu, Japan, that played a key role in early Japanese expansion and administration.
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D.
Gifu Prefecture
Gifu Prefecture is a landlocked region in central Japan’s Chūbu area, known for its mountainous terrain, traditional towns like Takayama, and the UNESCO-listed historic villages of Shirakawa-go.
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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 | historical Japanese province ⓘ |
| abolishedAsProvinceIn | Meiji period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Shinshū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Echigo Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Etchū Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Hida Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Kai Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Kōzuke Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Mikawa Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Mino Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Shinshū NERFINISHED ⓘ Suruga Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Tōtōmi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Matsumoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMountainRange |
Akaishi Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hida Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Japanese Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiso Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsRegion |
Kiso Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matsumoto Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ Suwa region NERFINISHED ⓘ Ueda region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hadIchinomiya | Suwa Taisha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadImportantCastleTown |
Komoro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matsumoto NERFINISHED ⓘ Ueda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadProvincialCapitalIn | Matsumoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorRiver |
Chikuma River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shinano River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotablePeak |
Mount Hotaka
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Ontake NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Yari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTerrain | mountainous ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Edo period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Kamakura period NERFINISHED ⓘ Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ Nara period NERFINISHED ⓘ Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
mountain passes
ⓘ
post towns on Nakasendō ⓘ strategic location between eastern and western Japan ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Honshu ⓘ |
| partOf | Tōsandō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousCenter | Suwa Taisha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roughlyCorrespondsTo | Nagano Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Nagano Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Kisoji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nakasendō 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: Shinano Province Description of subject: Shinano Province was an old administrative region of Japan, roughly corresponding to modern Nagano Prefecture, known for its mountainous terrain and historical significance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.