Kita-ku, Sapporo
E204519
Kita-ku, Sapporo is a northern ward of Sapporo, Japan, known for its residential districts, educational institutions, and transportation hubs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kita-ku, Sapporo canonical | 13 |
| Kita Ward Office, Sapporo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1812838 — 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: Kita-ku, Sapporo Context triple: [Sapporo, subdivision, Kita-ku, Sapporo]
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A.
Chūō-ku, Sapporo
Chūō-ku, Sapporo is the central ward of Sapporo, Japan, serving as the city’s main commercial, administrative, and entertainment district.
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B.
Naniwa-ku
Naniwa-ku is a central ward of Osaka, Japan, known for its bustling entertainment districts, shopping streets, and iconic landmarks such as Tsutenkaku Tower.
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C.
Kitano-cho
Kitano-cho is a historic district in Kobe, Japan, known for its preserved Western-style residences built by foreign merchants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Moriguchi
Moriguchi is a city in Japan’s Kansai region that forms part of the Osaka metropolitan area and serves as a residential and commercial hub.
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E.
Arakawa, Tokyo
Arakawa, Tokyo is a special ward in northeastern Tokyo known for its mix of traditional shitamachi neighborhoods, residential areas, and industrial zones.
- 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: Kita-ku, Sapporo Target entity description: Kita-ku, Sapporo is a northern ward of Sapporo, Japan, known for its residential districts, educational institutions, and transportation hubs.
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A.
Chūō-ku, Sapporo
Chūō-ku, Sapporo is the central ward of Sapporo, Japan, serving as the city’s main commercial, administrative, and entertainment district.
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B.
Naniwa-ku
Naniwa-ku is a central ward of Osaka, Japan, known for its bustling entertainment districts, shopping streets, and iconic landmarks such as Tsutenkaku Tower.
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C.
Kitano-cho
Kitano-cho is a historic district in Kobe, Japan, known for its preserved Western-style residences built by foreign merchants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Moriguchi
Moriguchi is a city in Japan’s Kansai region that forms part of the Osaka metropolitan area and serves as a residential and commercial hub.
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E.
Arakawa, Tokyo
Arakawa, Tokyo is a special ward in northeastern Tokyo known for its mix of traditional shitamachi neighborhoods, residential areas, and industrial zones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
ⓘ
ward of Japan ⓘ |
| contains |
Hokkaido University
ⓘ
Hokkaido University Hospital ⓘ Hokkaido University main campus ⓘ
linked to:
Sapporo Campus
JR Hokkaido railway lines ⓘ
linked to:
JR Hokkaido
Sapporo Campus of Hokkaido University ⓘ
linked to:
Sapporo Campus
Sapporo Municipal Subway stations ⓘ Sapporo Station area (northern side) ⓘ bus terminals ⓘ colleges ⓘ commercial areas ⓘ educational institutions ⓘ high schools ⓘ industrial areas ⓘ junior high schools ⓘ parks ⓘ primary schools ⓘ residential neighborhoods ⓘ residential parks ⓘ riverside areas ⓘ transportation hubs ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Kita Ward Office, Sapporo
ⓘ
linked to:
Kita-ku, Sapporo
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| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
commercial
ⓘ
educational ⓘ industrial ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeSystem | Japanese postal code system ⓘ |
| hasRole |
educational center of Sapporo
ⓘ
residential district of Sapporo ⓘ transportation hub of Sapporo ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
bus network
ⓘ
railway ⓘ subway ⓘ |
| hasUrbanType | urban ward ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hokkaido
ⓘ
Ishikari Subprefecture ⓘ Sapporo ⓘ |
| locatedInNorthernPartOf | Sapporo ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Hokkaido ⓘ |
| partOf |
City of Sapporo
ⓘ
linked to:
Sapporo
Hokkaido Prefecture ⓘ
linked to:
Hokkaido
|
| UTCOffset | +9 ⓘ |
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: Kita-ku, Sapporo Description of subject: Kita-ku, Sapporo is a northern ward of Sapporo, Japan, known for its residential districts, educational institutions, and transportation hubs.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Graduate School of Engineering
subject linked to:
Faculty of Science
subject linked to:
Faculty of Engineering
subject linked to:
Faculty of Law
linked to: Kita-ku, Sapporo