Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd.
E395828
Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. was the original corporate name of the Japanese company that evolved into Mazda, a major global automobile manufacturer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3864682 — 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: Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. Context triple: [Mazda Motor Corporation, formerName, Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd.]
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A.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Taisei Corporation
Taisei Corporation is a major Japanese construction and civil engineering company known for leading large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects in Japan and abroad.
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E.
Kawada Industries
Kawada Industries is a Japanese engineering and construction company known for its work on major infrastructure projects, including prominent bridges and civil works.
- 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: Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. Target entity description: Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. was the original corporate name of the Japanese company that evolved into Mazda, a major global automobile manufacturer.
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A.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Taisei Corporation
Taisei Corporation is a major Japanese construction and civil engineering company known for leading large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects in Japan and abroad.
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E.
Kawada Industries
Kawada Industries is a Japanese engineering and construction company known for its work on major infrastructure projects, including prominent bridges and civil works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
automobile manufacturer
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automotive industry precursor ⓘ company ⓘ defunct company ⓘ |
| associatedWithBrand |
Mazda
ⓘ
linked to:
Mazda Motor Corporation
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| corporateLineage |
Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. → Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. → Mazda Motor Corporation
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linked to:
Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
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| country | Japan ⓘ |
| evolvedInto | Mazda Motor Corporation ⓘ |
| fate |
renamed as Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
ⓘ
linked to:
Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
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| formerlyKnownAs | Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. ⓘ |
| hasCorporateForm | limited company ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorOrganization | Mazda Motor Corporation ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Hiroshima, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Hiroshima
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| historicalRole | predecessor of a major global automobile manufacturer ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | origin of Mazda corporate lineage ⓘ |
| industry |
automotive industry
ⓘ
cork manufacturing ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hiroshima, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Hiroshima
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| notableAs | original corporate name of Mazda ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| originalNameOf | Mazda Motor Corporation ⓘ |
| productType | cork products ⓘ |
| regionServed | Japan ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
Mazda Motor Corporation
ⓘ
Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. ⓘ |
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: Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. Description of subject: Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. was the original corporate name of the Japanese company that evolved into Mazda, a major global automobile manufacturer.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd.
subject linked to:
Ford Motor Company and Mazda Motor Corporation