Futenma Air Station
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Futenma Air Station is a major United States Marine Corps air base located in the densely populated city of Ginowan on Japan’s Okinawa Island, long at the center of local controversy over noise, safety, and the American military presence.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marine Corps Air Station Futenma | 10 |
| Futenma Air Station canonical | 2 |
| Futenma Replacement Facility | 1 |
| 普天間基地 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1373045 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Futenma Air Station Context triple: [Okinawa Prefecture, hasMajorUSBase, Futenma Air Station]
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Kadena Air Base
Kadena Air Base is a major United States Air Force installation in Japan that serves as a key strategic hub for American military operations in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Tsuiki Air Base
Tsuiki Air Base is a major Japan Air Self-Defense Force installation in Fukuoka Prefecture known for hosting fighter squadrons and air defense operations.
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Nyutabaru Air Base
Nyutabaru Air Base is a major Japan Air Self-Defense Force installation in Miyazaki Prefecture, primarily used for fighter pilot training and tactical air operations.
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Komatsu Air Base
Komatsu Air Base is a major military airfield in Ishikawa Prefecture that serves as one of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s key fighter and air defense installations.
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E.
Misawa Air Base
Misawa Air Base is a major joint U.S.–Japan military installation in Aomori Prefecture that supports both air defense and regional security operations.
- 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: Futenma Air Station Target entity description: Futenma Air Station is a major United States Marine Corps air base located in the densely populated city of Ginowan on Japan’s Okinawa Island, long at the center of local controversy over noise, safety, and the American military presence.
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A.
Kadena Air Base
Kadena Air Base is a major United States Air Force installation in Japan that serves as a key strategic hub for American military operations in the Asia-Pacific region.
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B.
Tsuiki Air Base
Tsuiki Air Base is a major Japan Air Self-Defense Force installation in Fukuoka Prefecture known for hosting fighter squadrons and air defense operations.
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C.
Nyutabaru Air Base
Nyutabaru Air Base is a major Japan Air Self-Defense Force installation in Miyazaki Prefecture, primarily used for fighter pilot training and tactical air operations.
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D.
Komatsu Air Base
Komatsu Air Base is a major military airfield in Ishikawa Prefecture that serves as one of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s key fighter and air defense installations.
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E.
Misawa Air Base
Misawa Air Base is a major joint U.S.–Japan military installation in Aomori Prefecture that supports both air defense and regional security operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Futenma Air Station Description of subject: Futenma Air Station is a major United States Marine Corps air base located in the densely populated city of Ginowan on Japan’s Okinawa Island, long at the center of local controversy over noise, safety, and the American military presence.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan
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United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands
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