Kanagawa-juku
E935923
Kanagawa-juku was a post station along Japan’s historic Tōkaidō road, serving as a key rest and relay point for travelers during the Edo period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kanagawa-juku canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11582039 — 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: Kanagawa-juku Context triple: [Tōkaidō, hasStation, Kanagawa-juku]
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A.
Kakegawa Kachōen
Kakegawa Kachōen is a popular Japanese bird and flower park known for its large walk-through aviaries, interactive bird shows, and extensive floral displays.
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B.
Bungeishunjū
Bungeishunjū is a major Japanese publishing company known for its influential literary magazines and prestigious literary awards.
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C.
Shōka Sonjuku academy
Shōka Sonjuku academy was a small but highly influential private school in late Edo-period Japan, led by Yoshida Shōin and known for educating many key figures who later drove the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Yushima Seidō
Yushima Seidō is a historic Confucian temple and former educational center in Tokyo, Japan, known as a key site for Confucian learning during the Edo period.
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E.
Meirokusha
Meirokusha was an influential Meiji-era Japanese intellectual society and journal circle that promoted Western learning, modernization, and political and social reform.
- 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: Kanagawa-juku Target entity description: Kanagawa-juku was a post station along Japan’s historic Tōkaidō road, serving as a key rest and relay point for travelers during the Edo period.
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A.
Kakegawa Kachōen
Kakegawa Kachōen is a popular Japanese bird and flower park known for its large walk-through aviaries, interactive bird shows, and extensive floral displays.
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B.
Bungeishunjū
Bungeishunjū is a major Japanese publishing company known for its influential literary magazines and prestigious literary awards.
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C.
Shōka Sonjuku academy
Shōka Sonjuku academy was a small but highly influential private school in late Edo-period Japan, led by Yoshida Shōin and known for educating many key figures who later drove the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Yushima Seidō
Yushima Seidō is a historic Confucian temple and former educational center in Tokyo, Japan, known as a key site for Confucian learning during the Edo period.
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E.
Meirokusha
Meirokusha was an influential Meiji-era Japanese intellectual society and journal circle that promoted Western learning, modernization, and political and social reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical site
ⓘ
post station ⓘ shukuba ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
daimyō processions
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sankin-kōtai system ⓘ travelers of the Edo period ⓘ |
| category |
Edo-period infrastructure
ⓘ
Stations of the Tōkaidō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| distanceRelation | on the route between Edo and Kyoto ⓘ |
| era | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
post station for travelers
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relay point for goods and messages ⓘ rest stop ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | part of early modern Japanese travel culture ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole | waypoint for trade along the Tōkaidō ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
inns
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stables ⓘ tea houses ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historical Tōkaidō station site ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Japan
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Kanagawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Kanagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Edo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Tōkaidō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
NERFINISHED
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Tōkaidō post station system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentDayArea | Yokohama area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentDayMunicipality | Yokohama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| roadType | highway post town ⓘ |
| timeInUse | early 17th century to late 19th century ⓘ |
| transportRoute | Tōkaidō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| travelNetworkRole | key node on the Tōkaidō ⓘ |
| usedFor |
changing horses and palanquins
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commercial activities along the Tōkaidō ⓘ lodging for travelers ⓘ |
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: Kanagawa-juku Description of subject: Kanagawa-juku was a post station along Japan’s historic Tōkaidō road, serving as a key rest and relay point for travelers during the Edo period.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.