Hiroshima
E29708
Hiroshima is a Japanese city on Honshu Island internationally known as the first place in history to be devastated by an atomic bomb during World War II.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiroshima canonical | 191 |
| City of Hiroshima | 21 |
| Hiroshima City | 21 |
| Hiroshima, Japan | 16 |
| Hiroshima city center | 9 |
| Hiroshima Peace Memorial City | 1 |
| Hiroshima city | 1 |
| Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan | 1 |
| Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan | 1 |
| Hiroshima-ben | 1 |
| Hiroşima | 1 |
| Naka Ward, Hiroshima | 1 |
| Naka-ku, Hiroshima | 1 |
| city of Hiroshima | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T53751 — 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: Hiroshima Context triple: [atomic bombing of Hiroshima, location, Hiroshima]
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A.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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B.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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C.
Hiroshima 1st district
Hiroshima 1st district is a Japanese electoral district in Hiroshima Prefecture that elects members to the national House of Representatives.
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D.
Nagoya
Nagoya is a major industrial and commercial city in central Japan, known as a manufacturing hub and the capital of Aichi Prefecture.
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E.
Kyoto
Kyoto is a historic Japanese city renowned for its well-preserved temples, traditional wooden houses, and role as the former imperial capital.
- 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: Hiroshima Target entity description: Hiroshima is a Japanese city on Honshu Island internationally known as the first place in history to be devastated by an atomic bomb during World War II.
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A.
Niigata
Niigata is a major coastal city in north-central Japan known for its important seaport on the Sea of Japan, rice production, and sake brewing.
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B.
Yokohama
Yokohama is Japan’s second-largest city and a major international port located just south of Tokyo.
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C.
Hiroshima 1st district
Hiroshima 1st district is a Japanese electoral district in Hiroshima Prefecture that elects members to the national House of Representatives.
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D.
Nagoya
Nagoya is a major industrial and commercial city in central Japan, known as a manufacturing hub and the capital of Aichi Prefecture.
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E.
Kyoto
Kyoto is a historic Japanese city renowned for its well-preserved temples, traditional wooden houses, and role as the former imperial capital.
- 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: Hiroshima Description of subject: Hiroshima is a Japanese city on Honshu Island internationally known as the first place in history to be devastated by an atomic bomb during World War II.
Referenced by (267)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
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subject linked to:
Jan Letzel
subject linked to:
Jan Letzel
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subject linked to:
western Japan
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linked to: Hiroshima
linked to: Hiroshima