Port of Kanazawa
E1025095
The Port of Kanazawa is a coastal seaport in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, serving as a regional hub for maritime trade, fishing, and ferry transportation on the Sea of Japan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kanazawa Port | 1 |
| Port of Kanazawa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12092799 — 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: Port of Kanazawa Context triple: [ports of Japan, hasPart, Port of Kanazawa]
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A.
Kurihama Port
Kurihama Port is a coastal harbor and ferry terminal located on Japan’s Miura Peninsula, serving as a key maritime gateway in Kanagawa Prefecture.
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B.
Port of Niigata
The Port of Niigata is a major seaport on the Sea of Japan in north-central Honshu, serving as an important hub for international trade, ferry services, and regional industry in Japan.
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C.
Port of Toyama
The Port of Toyama is a key maritime hub on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast, supporting regional industry and trade for the city of Toyama and the surrounding Hokuriku region.
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D.
Port of Akita
The Port of Akita is a key seaport on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast that supports regional industry, trade, and maritime transport for Akita Prefecture.
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E.
Kishiwada Port
Kishiwada Port is a coastal harbor facility in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving regional maritime transport and local industry.
- 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: Port of Kanazawa Target entity description: The Port of Kanazawa is a coastal seaport in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, serving as a regional hub for maritime trade, fishing, and ferry transportation on the Sea of Japan.
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A.
Kurihama Port
Kurihama Port is a coastal harbor and ferry terminal located on Japan’s Miura Peninsula, serving as a key maritime gateway in Kanagawa Prefecture.
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B.
Port of Niigata
The Port of Niigata is a major seaport on the Sea of Japan in north-central Honshu, serving as an important hub for international trade, ferry services, and regional industry in Japan.
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C.
Port of Toyama
The Port of Toyama is a key maritime hub on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast, supporting regional industry and trade for the city of Toyama and the surrounding Hokuriku region.
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D.
Port of Akita
The Port of Akita is a key seaport on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast that supports regional industry, trade, and maritime transport for Akita Prefecture.
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E.
Kishiwada Port
Kishiwada Port is a coastal harbor facility in Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, serving regional maritime transport and local industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
seaport
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| geographicLocation | northwestern coast of Honshu ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cargo handling
ⓘ
ferry transportation ⓘ fishing ⓘ maritime trade ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
breakwaters
ⓘ
cargo terminals ⓘ ferry berths ⓘ fishing port facilities ⓘ piers ⓘ warehouses ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Kanazawa municipal authorities
ⓘ
linked to:
Kanazawa city government
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| hasNavigationCondition | affected by winter storms on Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Kanazawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPortType |
coastal port
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| hasTransportMode |
cargo shipping
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ferry ⓘ sea transport ⓘ |
| isAccessedBy |
rail transport
ⓘ
road transport ⓘ |
| isInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| isLocatedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| isOnTradeRoute | Sea of Japan coastal routes ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kanazawa ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Ishikawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Hokuriku region ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | Honshu ⓘ |
| openingTo | Sea of Japan ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese port system ⓘ |
| servesCity | Kanazawa ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Hokuriku region
ⓘ
Ishikawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsSector |
local fisheries
ⓘ
regional logistics ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
coastal shipping
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fishing industry support ⓘ passenger ferry services ⓘ regional trade ⓘ |
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: Port of Kanazawa Description of subject: The Port of Kanazawa is a coastal seaport in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, serving as a regional hub for maritime trade, fishing, and ferry transportation on the Sea of Japan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Port of Kanazawa