Kokura
E941569
Kokura is a historic district in Kitakyushu, Japan, known for its castle, commercial center, and role as a former castle town and transport hub on Kyushu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kokura canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7850172 — 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: Kokura Context triple: [Kitakyushu, formedByMerger, Kokura]
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A.
Karatsu
Karatsu is a coastal city in Saga Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic castle, traditional Karatsu ware pottery, and the annual Karatsu Kunchi festival.
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B.
Toyokawa
Toyokawa is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic Toyokawa Inari temple and manufacturing industries.
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C.
Takamatsu
Takamatsu is a coastal city in Japan’s Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, known as a regional transport hub and gateway to the Seto Inland Sea.
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D.
Onomichi
Onomichi is a historic port city in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture, known for its hillside temples, scenic seaside views, and role as a gateway to the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.
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E.
Imabari
Imabari is a coastal city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, known for its shipbuilding industry, towel production, and as a gateway to the Shimanami Kaido cycling route.
- 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: Kokura Target entity description: Kokura is a historic district in Kitakyushu, Japan, known for its castle, commercial center, and role as a former castle town and transport hub on Kyushu.
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A.
Karatsu
Karatsu is a coastal city in Saga Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic castle, traditional Karatsu ware pottery, and the annual Karatsu Kunchi festival.
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B.
Toyokawa
Toyokawa is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for its historic Toyokawa Inari temple and manufacturing industries.
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C.
Takamatsu
Takamatsu is a coastal city in Japan’s Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, known as a regional transport hub and gateway to the Seto Inland Sea.
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D.
Onomichi
Onomichi is a historic port city in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture, known for its hillside temples, scenic seaside views, and role as a gateway to the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.
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E.
Imabari
Imabari is a coastal city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, known for its shipbuilding industry, towel production, and as a gateway to the Shimanami Kaido cycling route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic district
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urban district ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
retail
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services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasCulturalFacility |
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (branch in Riverwalk)
NERFINISHED
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Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFestival | Kokura Gion Daiko Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Katsuyama Park
NERFINISHED
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Kitakyushu Manga Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Kokura Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ Kokura Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Riverwalk Kitakyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanga Market NERFINISHED ⓘ Zenrin Map Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Kokura Kita Ward
NERFINISHED
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Kokura Minami Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Kokura Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Murasaki River
NERFINISHED
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Tsubusagawa River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShoppingArea |
Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu vicinity commercial zone
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Uomachi Gintengai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsFacility | Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | castle town of Kokura Domain ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Kokura Castle
NERFINISHED
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commercial center of Kitakyushu ⓘ historic castle town ⓘ transport hub on Kyushu ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kitakyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Fukuoka Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Kyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monorailOperator | Kitakyushu Urban Monorail Co., Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kitakyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayOperator |
JR Kyushu
NERFINISHED
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JR West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| transportHubFor |
Kagoshima Main Line
NERFINISHED
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Kitakyushu Monorail NERFINISHED ⓘ Nippō Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanyo Shinkansen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasCapitalOf | Kokura Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasRuledBy |
Hosokawa clan
NERFINISHED
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Ogasawara clan 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: Kokura Description of subject: Kokura is a historic district in Kitakyushu, Japan, known for its castle, commercial center, and role as a former castle town and transport hub on Kyushu.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.