Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
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Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. was the original corporate name of the Japanese automaker now known as Mazda Motor Corporation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. canonical | 4 |
| Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. → Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. → Mazda Motor Corporation | 1 |
| Toyo Kogyo | 1 |
| renamed as Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3864683 — 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 Kogyo Co., Ltd. Context triple: [Mazda Motor Corporation, formerName, Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.]
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A.
Toyota Industries Corporation
Toyota Industries Corporation is a Japanese manufacturing company best known for producing industrial vehicles, textile machinery, and automotive components as a core member of the Toyota Group.
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B.
JTEKT Corporation
JTEKT Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of automotive components, bearings, and machine tools, known as a key supplier within the Toyota Group.
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C.
Toyota Boshoku Corporation
Toyota Boshoku Corporation is a major Japanese automotive parts manufacturer best known for producing interior components and seats, primarily for Toyota and other automakers worldwide.
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D.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. is a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer known for producing rubber and plastic components, safety systems, and LEDs, and is closely affiliated with the Toyota Group.
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E.
Denso Corporation
Denso Corporation is a leading global automotive components manufacturer headquartered in Japan and a key supplier of advanced technologies and systems to major automakers worldwide.
- 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 Kogyo Co., Ltd. Target entity description: Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. was the original corporate name of the Japanese automaker now known as Mazda Motor Corporation.
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A.
Toyota Industries Corporation
Toyota Industries Corporation is a Japanese manufacturing company best known for producing industrial vehicles, textile machinery, and automotive components as a core member of the Toyota Group.
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B.
JTEKT Corporation
JTEKT Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of automotive components, bearings, and machine tools, known as a key supplier within the Toyota Group.
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C.
Toyota Boshoku Corporation
Toyota Boshoku Corporation is a major Japanese automotive parts manufacturer best known for producing interior components and seats, primarily for Toyota and other automakers worldwide.
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D.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. is a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer known for producing rubber and plastic components, safety systems, and LEDs, and is closely affiliated with the Toyota Group.
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E.
Denso Corporation
Denso Corporation is a leading global automotive components manufacturer headquartered in Japan and a key supplier of advanced technologies and systems to major automakers worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
automobile manufacturer
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defunct company ⓘ |
| abbreviatedAs |
Toyo Kogyo
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linked to:
Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
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| associatedWithCity | Hiroshima ⓘ |
| businessType | manufacturing company ⓘ |
| category |
Japanese brands
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defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Japan ⓘ vehicle manufacturing companies established in the 20th century ⓘ |
| corporateForm | kabushiki gaisha ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| developedTechnology | Wankel rotary engine ⓘ |
| exportedTo |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ Oceania ⓘ |
| formerName | Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorOrganization | Mazda Motor Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Hiroshima, Japan
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linked to:
Hiroshima
|
| industry |
automotive industry
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machine tools ⓘ |
| knownFor |
compact cars
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light trucks ⓘ rotary-engine sports cars ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| laterRenamed | Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chūgoku region
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Hiroshima Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Honshu ⓘ Japan ⓘ |
| notableBrand | Mazda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedAsAutomakerUntil | 1984 ⓘ |
| operatedIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| originalNameOf | Mazda Motor Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf | Mazda brand ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Mazda Motor Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productType |
automobiles
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engines ⓘ machine tools ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| specializedIn |
buses
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commercial vehicles ⓘ passenger cars ⓘ trucks ⓘ |
| successor | Mazda Motor Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Kogyo Co., Ltd. Description of subject: Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. was the original corporate name of the Japanese automaker now known as Mazda Motor Corporation.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd.
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corporateLineage
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Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. → Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. → Mazda Motor Corporation
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linked to: Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
subject linked to:
Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
subject linked to:
Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
linked to: Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.