Hiroshima Station
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Hiroshima Station is the main railway hub of Hiroshima, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and regional rail lines.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiroshima Station canonical | 7 |
| Hiroshima Station Shinkansen Exit Bus Terminal | 1 |
| Hiroshima Station South Exit Bus Terminal | 1 |
| Hiroshima-eki | 1 |
| Hiroshima-eki-mae | 1 |
| JR West railway network at Hiroshima Station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1496963 — 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 Station Context triple: [Hiroshima, hasRailwayStation, Hiroshima Station]
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A.
Nagoya Station
Nagoya Station is one of Japan’s largest and busiest railway hubs, serving as a major Shinkansen and regional transit center in the city of Nagoya.
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B.
Osaki Station
Osaki Station is a major railway hub in Tokyo, Japan, serving multiple JR East lines and connecting central Tokyo with surrounding suburban areas.
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C.
Takasaki Station
Takasaki Station is a major railway hub in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, serving multiple JR East lines and Shinkansen services as a key regional transport center.
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D.
Yokohama Station
Yokohama Station is one of Japan’s busiest railway hubs, serving numerous JR, private, and subway lines in central Yokohama.
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E.
Kanda Station
Kanda Station is a major railway station in central Tokyo that serves multiple JR East and Tokyo Metro lines and provides convenient access to the city's business districts.
- 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 Station Target entity description: Hiroshima Station is the main railway hub of Hiroshima, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and regional rail lines.
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A.
Nagoya Station
Nagoya Station is one of Japan’s largest and busiest railway hubs, serving as a major Shinkansen and regional transit center in the city of Nagoya.
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B.
Osaki Station
Osaki Station is a major railway hub in Tokyo, Japan, serving multiple JR East lines and connecting central Tokyo with surrounding suburban areas.
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C.
Takasaki Station
Takasaki Station is a major railway hub in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, serving multiple JR East lines and Shinkansen services as a key regional transport center.
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D.
Yokohama Station
Yokohama Station is one of Japan’s busiest railway hubs, serving numerous JR, private, and subway lines in central Yokohama.
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E.
Kanda Station
Kanda Station is a major railway station in central Tokyo that serves multiple JR East and Tokyo Metro lines and provides convenient access to the city's business districts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Station Description of subject: Hiroshima Station is the main railway hub of Hiroshima, Japan, serving as a key stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen and regional rail lines.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sanyō Shinkansen line
linked to: Hiroshima Station
linked to: Hiroshima Station
linked to: Hiroshima Station
linked to: Hiroshima Station
linked to: Hiroshima Station