MOFA Japan
E125113
MOFA Japan is Japan’s government ministry responsible for managing the country’s foreign relations, diplomacy, and international cooperation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MOFA Japan canonical | 5 |
| MOFA | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1081145 — 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: MOFA Japan Context triple: [Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, shortName, MOFA Japan]
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A.
Nisshoki
Nisshoki, more commonly known as the Hinomaru, is the national flag of Japan featuring a red sun disc centered on a white field.
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B.
Tokyo Kyojin
Tokyo Kyojin is an alternate name for the Yomiuri Giants, one of Japan’s most historic and successful professional baseball teams based in Tokyo.
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C.
Mori
Mori is a Japanese surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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D.
Higashi Shina Kai
Higashi Shina Kai is the Japanese name for the East China Sea, a marginal sea located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula.
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E.
MFS
MFS (Macintosh File System) is the original flat file system used by early Macintosh computers before the introduction of the hierarchical HFS.
- 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: MOFA Japan Target entity description: MOFA Japan is Japan’s government ministry responsible for managing the country’s foreign relations, diplomacy, and international cooperation.
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A.
Nisshoki
Nisshoki, more commonly known as the Hinomaru, is the national flag of Japan featuring a red sun disc centered on a white field.
-
B.
Tokyo Kyojin
Tokyo Kyojin is an alternate name for the Yomiuri Giants, one of Japan’s most historic and successful professional baseball teams based in Tokyo.
-
C.
Mori
Mori is a Japanese surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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D.
Higashi Shina Kai
Higashi Shina Kai is the Japanese name for the East China Sea, a marginal sea located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula.
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E.
MFS
MFS (Macintosh File System) is the original flat file system used by early Macintosh computers before the introduction of the hierarchical HFS.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
foreign affairs ministry
ⓘ
government ministry ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Gaimu-shō
ⓘ
MOFA ⓘ
linked to:
MOFA Japan
|
| cooperatesWith |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ⓘ
G7 member states ⓘ
linked to:
G7
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ⓘ
linked to:
OECD
United Nations ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| employs |
civil servants
ⓘ
diplomats ⓘ |
| follows |
Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act of Japan
ⓘ
Japanese Constitution ⓘ
linked to:
Constitution of Japan
|
| hasBuildingType | government office building ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseWebsite | https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/ ⓘ |
| hasMinisterialPost |
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
ⓘ
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ⓘ
linked to:
State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo
|
| jurisdiction | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Chiyoda, Tokyo
ⓘ
linked to:
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo ⓘ |
| nativeName |
外務省
ⓘ
linked to:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
|
| nativeNameLanguage | ja ⓘ |
| officialName | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan ⓘ |
| oversees |
Japanese consulates abroad
ⓘ
Japanese embassies abroad ⓘ permanent missions of Japan to international organizations ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Cabinet of Japan ⓘ |
| partOf | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| policyArea |
consular affairs
ⓘ
development cooperation ⓘ economic diplomacy ⓘ foreign policy ⓘ international law ⓘ international security ⓘ |
| responsibility |
development assistance policy
ⓘ
diplomacy ⓘ foreign relations of Japan ⓘ international cooperation ⓘ management of Japan’s foreign policy ⓘ protection of Japanese nationals abroad ⓘ public diplomacy ⓘ treaty negotiation and conclusion ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mofa.go.jp/ ⓘ |
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: MOFA Japan Description of subject: MOFA Japan is Japan’s government ministry responsible for managing the country’s foreign relations, diplomacy, and international cooperation.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: MOFA Japan
subject linked to:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
subject linked to:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
linked to: MOFA Japan
subject linked to:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs