Yokosuka
E281970
Yokosuka is a coastal city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its major naval base and strategic location at the mouth of Tokyo Bay.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yokosuka canonical | 40 |
| City of Yokosuka | 3 |
| Yokosuka Naval District | 1 |
| Yokosuka area | 1 |
| Yokosuka, Kanagawa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1173962 — 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: Yokosuka Context triple: [Great Kanto earthquake, affectedCity, Yokosuka]
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A.
Shizuoka
Shizuoka is a coastal city in central Japan known for its views of Mount Fuji, green tea production, and role as the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture.
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B.
Chiba
Chiba is a major city in Japan located east of Tokyo, known as the capital of Chiba Prefecture and a key commercial and residential hub in the Greater Tokyo Area.
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C.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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D.
Kitakyushu
Kitakyushu is a major industrial and port city located in Fukuoka Prefecture on Japan’s Kyushu island.
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E.
Okayama
Okayama is a major city in western Japan known for its historic Okayama Castle, the celebrated Korakuen Garden, and its role as a regional transportation and cultural hub.
- 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: Yokosuka Target entity description: Yokosuka is a coastal city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its major naval base and strategic location at the mouth of Tokyo Bay.
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A.
Shizuoka
Shizuoka is a coastal city in central Japan known for its views of Mount Fuji, green tea production, and role as the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture.
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B.
Chiba
Chiba is a major city in Japan located east of Tokyo, known as the capital of Chiba Prefecture and a key commercial and residential hub in the Greater Tokyo Area.
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C.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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D.
Kitakyushu
Kitakyushu is a major industrial and port city located in Fukuoka Prefecture on Japan’s Kyushu island.
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E.
Okayama
Okayama is a major city in western Japan known for its historic Okayama Castle, the celebrated Korakuen Garden, and its role as a regional transportation and cultural hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Yokosuka Description of subject: Yokosuka is a coastal city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its major naval base and strategic location at the mouth of Tokyo Bay.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yokosuka
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subject linked to:
French naval engineer Léonce Verny
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linked to: Yokosuka
linked to: Yokosuka