Hōei crater
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Hōei crater is a large flank crater on Mount Fuji in Japan, formed during the explosive Hōei eruption of 1707–1708 and now a prominent feature on the volcano’s southeastern slope.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hōei crater canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10838606 — 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: Hōei crater Context triple: [Hōei eruption, createdFeature, Hōei crater]
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A.
Showa crater
Showa crater is one of the main active vents of the Sakurajima volcano in Japan, known for its frequent explosive eruptions and ash emissions.
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B.
Minamidake crater
Minamidake crater is a principal active summit crater of the Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, known for frequent explosive eruptions.
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Mount Haruna caldera
Mount Haruna caldera is the large volcanic depression associated with Mount Haruna, formed by past explosive eruptions and collapse of the volcano’s summit.
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D.
Ushishir Volcano
Ushishir Volcano is an active volcanic complex forming part of a partially submerged caldera in the central Kuril Islands of Russia.
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E.
Menengai Crater
Menengai Crater is a massive, geologically active caldera in Kenya’s Rift Valley, known as one of the largest volcanic calderas in the world and a prominent feature of the East African Rift.
- 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: Hōei crater Target entity description: Hōei crater is a large flank crater on Mount Fuji in Japan, formed during the explosive Hōei eruption of 1707–1708 and now a prominent feature on the volcano’s southeastern slope.
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A.
Showa crater
Showa crater is one of the main active vents of the Sakurajima volcano in Japan, known for its frequent explosive eruptions and ash emissions.
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B.
Minamidake crater
Minamidake crater is a principal active summit crater of the Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, known for frequent explosive eruptions.
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C.
Mount Haruna caldera
Mount Haruna caldera is the large volcanic depression associated with Mount Haruna, formed by past explosive eruptions and collapse of the volcano’s summit.
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D.
Ushishir Volcano
Ushishir Volcano is an active volcanic complex forming part of a partially submerged caldera in the central Kuril Islands of Russia.
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E.
Menengai Crater
Menengai Crater is a massive, geologically active caldera in Kenya’s Rift Valley, known as one of the largest volcanic calderas in the world and a prominent feature of the East African Rift.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flank crater
ⓘ
volcanic crater ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Hōei earthquake of 1707 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| eruptionType | explosive eruption ⓘ |
| eruptiveProducts |
ash
ⓘ
lapilli ⓘ scoria ⓘ |
| formationEndDate | 1708 ⓘ |
| formationStartDate | 1707 ⓘ |
| formedBy |
magmatic explosive activity
ⓘ
phreatomagmatic activity ⓘ |
| formedDuring | Hōei eruption NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | Holocene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
multiple overlapping vents
ⓘ
steep inner walls ⓘ tephra deposits ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 宝永火口 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Gotemba Plain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Suruga Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hazardType |
pyroclastic material
ⓘ
tephra fall ⓘ |
| hostVolcano | Mount Fuji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Fuji-Hakone-Izu volcanic region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| isVisibleFrom | Gotemba area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| lastMajorActivity | 1707–1708 Hōei eruption NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Japan
ⓘ
Shizuoka Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mount Fuji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnSlope | southeastern slope of Mount Fuji ⓘ |
| managedBy | Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hōei era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearSettlement |
Fujinomiya
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gotemba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | southeast ⓘ |
| partOf | Mount Fuji volcanic edifice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfTrail | Mount Fuji hiking routes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEruptionYear | 1707 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
educational field trips
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volcanological research ⓘ |
| volcanicArcOrBelt | Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| volcanoTypeOfHost | stratovolcano ⓘ |
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: Hōei crater Description of subject: Hōei crater is a large flank crater on Mount Fuji in Japan, formed during the explosive Hōei eruption of 1707–1708 and now a prominent feature on the volcano’s southeastern slope.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.