Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
E89704
Yokosuka, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is a major naval port city hosting both Japanese and U.S. military bases and serving as an important maritime and industrial center.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | 11 |
| Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan canonical | 6 |
| Yokosuka, Japan | 5 |
| Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture | 2 |
| city of Yokosuka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T541729 — 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: Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan Context triple: [Junichiro Koizumi, placeOfBirth, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan]
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Tsuyama, Japan
Tsuyama, Japan is a historic city in Okayama Prefecture known for its well-preserved castle ruins, traditional townscape, and famous cherry blossom viewing spots.
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Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kashiwara is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as a residential and historical area within the Kansai region.
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Uruma, Okinawa, Japan
Uruma is a coastal city in central Okinawa, Japan, known for its U.S. military presence, scenic islands connected by long bridges, and role as a regional residential and commercial hub.
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D.
Osugi, Shikoku, Japan
Osugi in Shikoku, Japan is a small rural locality best known as the birthplace of World War II-era Imperial Japanese Army general Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Kure, in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, is a historic port city renowned as a major naval base and shipbuilding center, particularly prominent during the early 20th century.
- 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: Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan Target entity description: Yokosuka, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is a major naval port city hosting both Japanese and U.S. military bases and serving as an important maritime and industrial center.
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A.
Tsuyama, Japan
Tsuyama, Japan is a historic city in Okayama Prefecture known for its well-preserved castle ruins, traditional townscape, and famous cherry blossom viewing spots.
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B.
Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kashiwara is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as a residential and historical area within the Kansai region.
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C.
Uruma, Okinawa, Japan
Uruma is a coastal city in central Okinawa, Japan, known for its U.S. military presence, scenic islands connected by long bridges, and role as a regional residential and commercial hub.
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D.
Osugi, Shikoku, Japan
Osugi in Shikoku, Japan is a small rural locality best known as the birthplace of World War II-era Imperial Japanese Army general Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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E.
Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Kure, in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, is a historic port city renowned as a major naval base and shipbuilding center, particularly prominent during the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan Description of subject: Yokosuka, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is a major naval port city hosting both Japanese and U.S. military bases and serving as an important maritime and industrial center.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
United States Seventh Fleet
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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city of Yokosuka
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Japan
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Yokosuka, Japan
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Yokosuka, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Shinkai 6500
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U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan