Kabushiki gaisha
E381838
Kabushiki gaisha is a common Japanese joint-stock company structure similar to a corporation, used by many major businesses in Japan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kabushiki gaisha canonical | 11 |
| Kabushiki Kaisha | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3710870 — 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: Kabushiki gaisha Context triple: [Brother Industries, legalForm, Kabushiki gaisha]
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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.
Nippon Kobo
Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
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C.
Keihan Group
Keihan Group is a Japanese corporate conglomerate centered on the Keihan Electric Railway that operates transportation, real estate, retail, and leisure businesses in the Kansai region.
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D.
Keikyu Corporation
Keikyu Corporation is a major private railway operator in the Greater Tokyo area, best known for its commuter and airport rail services connecting central Tokyo with Haneda Airport and the Miura Peninsula.
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E.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
- 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: Kabushiki gaisha Target entity description: Kabushiki gaisha is a common Japanese joint-stock company structure similar to a corporation, used by many major businesses in Japan.
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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.
Nippon Kobo
Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
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C.
Keihan Group
Keihan Group is a Japanese corporate conglomerate centered on the Keihan Electric Railway that operates transportation, real estate, retail, and leisure businesses in the Kansai region.
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D.
Keikyu Corporation
Keikyu Corporation is a major private railway operator in the Greater Tokyo area, best known for its commuter and airport rail services connecting central Tokyo with Haneda Airport and the Miura Peninsula.
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E.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese legal concept
ⓘ
corporate legal form ⓘ joint-stock company type ⓘ |
| appliesInJurisdiction | Japan ⓘ |
| canBe |
closely held company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| canBeListedOn |
Osaka Exchange
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Tokyo Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| canIssue | different classes of shares ⓘ |
| capitalStructure | share capital divided into shares ⓘ |
| commonInSector |
financial institutions in Japan
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manufacturing companies in Japan ⓘ technology companies in Japan ⓘ |
| companySuffixPosition |
sometimes follows company name in English contexts
ⓘ
usually precedes company name in Japanese ⓘ |
| companySuffixUsage | appears in Japanese company names ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
gōdō gaisha
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gōmei gaisha ⓘ gōshi gaisha ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| governedBy | Companies Act of Japan ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
K.K.
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KK ⓘ |
| hasOrgan |
board of directors (in most cases)
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shareholders meeting ⓘ |
| historicalOrigin | modernization of Japanese corporate law in late 19th century ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | Japanese ⓘ |
| legalCapacity |
can enter into contracts
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can own property ⓘ can sue and be sued ⓘ |
| legalFormFor |
companies
ⓘ
corporations ⓘ |
| legalNature | separate legal entity from its shareholders ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Japanese corporate law ⓘ |
| liabilityType | limited liability for shareholders ⓘ |
| mayHaveOrgan | statutory auditors ⓘ |
| ownershipForm | shareholder-owned ⓘ |
| profitDistribution | dividends to shareholders ⓘ |
| requires |
articles of incorporation
ⓘ
registration with Legal Affairs Bureau in Japan ⓘ |
| sharesRepresent | ownership interests ⓘ |
| similarTo |
corporation
ⓘ
joint-stock company ⓘ |
| typicalFor | stock-exchange-listed firms in Japan ⓘ |
| usedBy |
large enterprises in Japan
ⓘ
listed companies in Japan ⓘ major Japanese businesses ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kanji ⓘ |
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: Kabushiki gaisha Description of subject: Kabushiki gaisha is a common Japanese joint-stock company structure similar to a corporation, used by many major businesses in Japan.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kabushiki gaisha