Yokohama Normal School
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Yokohama Normal School was a former teacher-training institution in Yokohama, Japan, that later became part of Yokohama National University through a postwar merger.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kanagawa Normal School for Youth | 1 |
| Yokohama Normal School canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3182095 — 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: Yokohama Normal School Context triple: [Yokohama National University, formedByMergerOf, Yokohama Normal School]
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A.
Nagoya Higher Normal School
Nagoya Higher Normal School was a former teacher-training institution in Japan that served as a precursor to the modern Nagoya University.
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B.
Tokyo Senmon Gakko
Tokyo Senmon Gakko was the original private college founded by Ōkuma Shigenobu that later developed into Waseda University, one of Japan’s leading universities.
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C.
Tokyo University of Education
Tokyo University of Education was a former Japanese national university in Tokyo known for its teacher training and educational research, and as an academic home to notable scholars such as Nobel laureate Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.
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D.
Gakushuin University
Gakushuin University is a prestigious private university in Tokyo historically known for educating members of Japan’s imperial family and elite.
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E.
Nankai High School
Nankai High School is a prestigious secondary school in China known for its strong academic tradition and close association with Nankai University.
- 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: Yokohama Normal School Target entity description: Yokohama Normal School was a former teacher-training institution in Yokohama, Japan, that later became part of Yokohama National University through a postwar merger.
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A.
Nagoya Higher Normal School
Nagoya Higher Normal School was a former teacher-training institution in Japan that served as a precursor to the modern Nagoya University.
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B.
Tokyo Senmon Gakko
Tokyo Senmon Gakko was the original private college founded by Ōkuma Shigenobu that later developed into Waseda University, one of Japan’s leading universities.
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C.
Tokyo University of Education
Tokyo University of Education was a former Japanese national university in Tokyo known for its teacher training and educational research, and as an academic home to notable scholars such as Nobel laureate Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.
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D.
Gakushuin University
Gakushuin University is a prestigious private university in Tokyo historically known for educating members of Japan’s imperial family and elite.
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E.
Nankai High School
Nankai High School is a prestigious secondary school in China known for its strong academic tradition and close association with Nankai University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
normal school
ⓘ
teacher-training institution ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| educationLevel | tertiary education ⓘ |
| educationSystem | Japanese education system ⓘ |
| function |
teacher education
ⓘ
training primary school teachers ⓘ |
| hasAlumniType | school teachers ⓘ |
| historicalRole | training teachers for local schools in Kanagawa Prefecture ⓘ |
| integratedInto | Faculty of Education of Yokohama National University ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial Japan
Kanagawa Prefecture ⓘ Yokohama ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Yokohama National University ⓘ |
| mergerPeriod | post–World War II ⓘ |
| partOf |
prewar Japanese higher education
ⓘ
prewar Japanese normal school system ⓘ |
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| sector | teacher training ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | Yokohama National University ⓘ |
| typeOfInstitution | public institution ⓘ |
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: Yokohama Normal School Description of subject: Yokohama Normal School was a former teacher-training institution in Yokohama, Japan, that later became part of Yokohama National University through a postwar merger.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yokohama Normal School