Hofu
E869653
Hofu is a coastal city in western Honshu, Japan, known for its historic Hofu Tenmangu Shrine and industrial manufacturing base.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hofu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10529967 — 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: Hofu Context triple: [Yamaguchi Prefecture, hasCity, Hofu]
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A.
Fukutsu
Fukutsu is a coastal city in southwestern Japan known for its beaches and location along the Genkai Sea in Fukuoka Prefecture.
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B.
Komaki
Komaki is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for its historical sites, including Komaki Castle, and its role as part of the Nagoya metropolitan area.
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C.
Shikaoi
Shikaoi is a rural town in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its natural scenery, agriculture, and access to outdoor activities such as hiking and hot springs.
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D.
Fukusaki
Fukusaki is a town in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural setting and association with folklorist Kunio Yanagita.
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E.
Ōnamuchi
Ōnamuchi is another name for Ōkuninushi, a major Shinto deity associated with nation-building, medicine, and good fortune in Japanese mythology.
- 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: Hofu Target entity description: Hofu is a coastal city in western Honshu, Japan, known for its historic Hofu Tenmangu Shrine and industrial manufacturing base.
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A.
Fukutsu
Fukutsu is a coastal city in southwestern Japan known for its beaches and location along the Genkai Sea in Fukuoka Prefecture.
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B.
Komaki
Komaki is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for its historical sites, including Komaki Castle, and its role as part of the Nagoya metropolitan area.
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C.
Shikaoi
Shikaoi is a rural town in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its natural scenery, agriculture, and access to outdoor activities such as hiking and hot springs.
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D.
Fukusaki
Fukusaki is a town in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural setting and association with folklorist Kunio Yanagita.
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E.
Ōnamuchi
Ōnamuchi is another name for Ōkuninushi, a major Shinto deity associated with nation-building, medicine, and good fortune in Japanese mythology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shinto shrine
ⓘ
automobile manufacturing plant ⓘ city ⓘ municipality ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | city ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| climateClassification | Cfa ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfCityStatus | August 25, 1936 ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Sugawara no Michizane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| facesBodyOfWater | Seto Inland Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Hofu City Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArea | about 189 square kilometers ⓘ |
| hasCulturalEvent | Hofu Tenmangu Grand Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSite | Hofu City Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Yamaguchi Prefectural Hofu High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasExpresswayAccess | Sanyo Expressway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
automobile manufacturing
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chemical industry ⓘ machinery manufacturing ⓘ petrochemical industry ⓘ |
| hasMajorCompanyFacility | Mazda Hofu Plant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
Shunan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yamaguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | approximately 115000 (early 2020s) ⓘ |
| hasPort | Hofu Port NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Hofu Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShrine | Hofu Tenmangu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSisterCity |
Auburn, Washington, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Daejeon, South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | Sanyo Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCoastalCity | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Hofu Tenmangu Shrine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
industrial manufacturing base ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hofu
NERFINISHED
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Hofu NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamaguchi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ western Honshu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFormerProvince | Nagato Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Chugoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Honshu ⓘ |
| mayorTitle | Mayor of Hofu ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Mazda Motor Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Yamaguchi metropolitan employment area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +09:00 ⓘ |
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: Hofu Description of subject: Hofu is a coastal city in western Honshu, Japan, known for its historic Hofu Tenmangu Shrine and industrial manufacturing base.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yamaguchi Prefecture