Harima Province
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Harima Province was an old administrative region of Japan located in what is now southwestern Hyōgo Prefecture, along the Seto Inland Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harima Province canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2708660 — 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: Harima Province Context triple: [Harima-nada Sea, namedAfter, Harima 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.
Tottori Prefecture
Tottori Prefecture is a rural coastal region in western Japan known for its vast sand dunes, scenic Sea of Japan coastline, and low population.
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C.
Kii Province
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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D.
Yamaguchi Prefecture
Yamaguchi Prefecture is a western Japanese prefecture on the island of Honshu, known for its strategic location facing both the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan, as well as its historical role in producing influential political leaders.
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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: Harima Province Target entity description: Harima Province was an old administrative region of Japan located in what is now southwestern Hyōgo Prefecture, along the Seto Inland Sea.
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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.
Tottori Prefecture
Tottori Prefecture is a rural coastal region in western Japan known for its vast sand dunes, scenic Sea of Japan coastline, and low population.
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C.
Kii Province
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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D.
Yamaguchi Prefecture
Yamaguchi Prefecture is a western Japanese prefecture on the island of Honshu, known for its strategic location facing both the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan, as well as its historical role in producing influential political leaders.
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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 (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former province of Japan ⓘ |
| abolishedInReform | Meiji Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Banshū
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harima no Kuni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Engishiki
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wamyō Ruijushō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Bizen Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Inaba Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Mimasaka Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Settsu Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Tajima Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamba Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Himeji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| economyType | agricultural ⓘ |
| existedDuring |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Kamakura period NERFINISHED ⓘ Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ Nara period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadBuddhistProvincialTemple | Harima Kokubun-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadIchinomiya | Iwa Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadImportantDomain | Himeji Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadMajorCastle | Himeji Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadMajorCastleTown | Himeji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadNunnery | Harima Kokubun-niji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadProvincialGovernmentOffice | Harima kokufu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadShrine |
Iwa Shrine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nishinomiya Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasModernEquivalent | Harima region of Hyōgo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegionOf | southwestern Hyōgo Prefecture ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | Ritsuryō province ⓘ |
| japaneseName | 播磨国 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Seto Inland Sea maritime trade
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ salt production ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Honshu
ⓘ
Hyōgo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansai region ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Seto Inland Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kinai and surrounding provinces ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Hyōgo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| todayPartlyCorrespondsTo |
Akashi City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Himeji City NERFINISHED ⓘ Kakogawa City NERFINISHED ⓘ Tatsuno City 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: Harima Province Description of subject: Harima Province was an old administrative region of Japan located in what is now southwestern Hyōgo Prefecture, along the Seto Inland Sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.