Nikkei Inc.
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Nikkei Inc. is a major Japanese media and financial information company best known for publishing the Nikkei newspaper and owning the Financial Times.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nikkei Inc. canonical | 9 |
| Nikkei Asian Review | 1 |
| Nikkei Business | 1 |
| Nikkei Digital Media | 1 |
| Nikkei Index Business Office | 1 |
| Nikkei Veritas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2241108 — 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: Nikkei Inc. Context triple: [Financial Times, ownedBy, Nikkei Inc.]
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A.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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B.
Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and real estate company based in Tokyo, known for operating extensive rail networks and developing commercial and residential areas, particularly around Shibuya.
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C.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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D.
Nippon Electric Company
Nippon Electric Company, now known as NEC Corporation, is a major Japanese multinational provider of information technology and electronics solutions.
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E.
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was the original name of the Japanese electronics company that later became globally known as Sony.
- 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: Nikkei Inc. Target entity description: Nikkei Inc. is a major Japanese media and financial information company best known for publishing the Nikkei newspaper and owning the Financial Times.
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A.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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B.
Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and real estate company based in Tokyo, known for operating extensive rail networks and developing commercial and residential areas, particularly around Shibuya.
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C.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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D.
Nippon Electric Company
Nippon Electric Company, now known as NEC Corporation, is a major Japanese multinational provider of information technology and electronics solutions.
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E.
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was the original name of the Japanese electronics company that later became globally known as Sony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial information company
ⓘ
joint-stock company ⓘ media company ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| acquired |
Financial Times Group
ⓘ
linked to:
Financial Times
|
| acquisitionOfFinancialTimesGroupDate | 2015 ⓘ |
| acquisitionOfFinancialTimesGroupPrice | 844 million GBP ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Asia
ⓘ
Japan ⓘ worldwide ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
business news
ⓘ
economic news ⓘ financial markets ⓘ |
| formerName |
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
|
| foundedAs |
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
|
| hasPublicationFormat |
mobile
ⓘ
online ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Nikkei Business Publications
ⓘ
Nikkei Digital Media ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei Inc.
Nikkei Printing ⓘ Nikkei Research ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chiyoda, Tokyo
ⓘ
Tokyo ⓘ |
| inception | 1876 ⓘ |
| industry |
digital media
ⓘ
financial information ⓘ media ⓘ newspaper publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ownership of the Financial Times
ⓘ
publishing Japan’s leading financial newspaper ⓘ |
| officialWebsite |
https://www.nikkei.co.jp/
ⓘ
https://www.nikkei.com/ ⓘ |
| operatorOf |
Nikkei 225 index
ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei 225
Nikkei Stock Average ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei 225
Nikkei indices ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei 225
|
| owns |
Financial Times
ⓘ
Financial Times Group ⓘ
linked to:
Financial Times
|
| parentOrganizationOf |
Nikkei BP
ⓘ
Nikkei CNBC ⓘ TV Tokyo Holdings (partial stake) ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
ⓘ
Nikkei Asia ⓘ Nikkei Asian Review ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei Inc.
Nikkei Business ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei Inc.
Nikkei MJ ⓘ Nikkei Veritas ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei Inc.
The Nikkei ⓘ
linked to:
Nikkei
|
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: Nikkei Inc. Description of subject: Nikkei Inc. is a major Japanese media and financial information company best known for publishing the Nikkei newspaper and owning the Financial Times.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nikkei Inc.
linked to: Nikkei Inc.
linked to: Nikkei Inc.
linked to: Nikkei Inc.
linked to: Nikkei Inc.