KDDI
E160435
KDDI is a major Japanese telecommunications company that provides mobile, broadband, and other communication services domestically and internationally.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KDDI Corporation | 4 |
| KDDI canonical | 2 |
| KDDI America | 1 |
| KDDI China | 1 |
| KDDI Digital Design | 1 |
| KDDI Evolva | 1 |
| Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1396463 — 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: KDDI Context triple: [Kazuo Inamori, founded, KDDI]
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A.
NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo is Japan’s largest mobile network operator, known for pioneering advanced mobile technologies and services, including early 3G deployments.
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B.
Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation was a major American telecommunications company that provided wireless and wireline services nationwide before merging with T-Mobile US.
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C.
AT&T
AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
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D.
T-Mobile US
T-Mobile US is a major American wireless network operator known for its nationwide mobile phone services and aggressive “Un-carrier” marketing strategy.
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E.
Verizon
Verizon is a major American telecommunications company providing wireless, internet, and related communication services across the United States and globally.
- 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: KDDI Target entity description: KDDI is a major Japanese telecommunications company that provides mobile, broadband, and other communication services domestically and internationally.
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A.
NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo is Japan’s largest mobile network operator, known for pioneering advanced mobile technologies and services, including early 3G deployments.
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B.
Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation was a major American telecommunications company that provided wireless and wireline services nationwide before merging with T-Mobile US.
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C.
AT&T
AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
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D.
T-Mobile US
T-Mobile US is a major American wireless network operator known for its nationwide mobile phone services and aggressive “Un-carrier” marketing strategy.
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E.
Verizon
Verizon is a major American telecommunications company providing wireless, internet, and related communication services across the United States and globally.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ telecommunications company ⓘ |
| brand |
UQ mobile
ⓘ
au ⓘ povo ⓘ |
| competitor |
NTT Docomo
ⓘ
linked to:
NTT DoCoMo
SoftBank Corp. ⓘ
linked to:
SoftBank Group
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Daini Denden Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Daini Denden (DDI)
IDO Corporation ⓘ KDD Corporation ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
KDDI America
ⓘ
linked to:
KDDI
KDDI China ⓘ
linked to:
KDDI
KDDI Digital Design ⓘ
linked to:
KDDI
KDDI Evolva ⓘ
linked to:
KDDI
Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company ⓘ
linked to:
KDDI
UQ Communications ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan ⓘ |
| industry |
broadband Internet
ⓘ
information and communication technology ⓘ mobile communications ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| languageOfService |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| legalForm | Kabushiki gaisha ⓘ |
| memberOf | au Group ⓘ |
| offers |
4G LTE services
ⓘ
5G mobile services ⓘ IP telephony ⓘ IoT connectivity services ⓘ cloud services ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Daini Denden Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Daini Denden (DDI)
IDO Corporation ⓘ KDD Corporation ⓘ |
| service |
broadband Internet access
ⓘ
data center services ⓘ enterprise network services ⓘ fixed-line telephony ⓘ international telecommunications services ⓘ mobile phone services ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Japan ⓘ global ⓘ |
| shortName | KDDI ⓘ |
| stockCode | 9433 ⓘ |
| tradedAs | Tokyo Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| website | https://www.kddi.com/ ⓘ |
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: KDDI Description of subject: KDDI is a major Japanese telecommunications company that provides mobile, broadband, and other communication services domestically and internationally.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI
linked to: KDDI