Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
E552836
Uonuma, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is a rural city known for its high-quality rice production and as the hometown of actor Ken Watanabe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5892304 — 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: Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Context triple: [Ken Watanabe, birthPlace, Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan]
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Oppama, Japan
Oppama, Japan is an industrial coastal district in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, best known for its major Nissan automobile manufacturing plant.
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Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Izumo, in Shimane Prefecture, Japan, is a historic city best known for the ancient Shinto shrine Izumo Taisha and its rich cultural and mythological heritage.
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Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan
Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan is a historic castle town in northeastern Honshu known for its samurai heritage, Yonezawa beef, and scenic mountainous surroundings.
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Oguni, Kumamoto, Japan
Oguni is a rural town in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, known for its hot springs, forested landscapes, and as the birthplace of bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato.
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Tsuyama, Japan
Tsuyama, Japan is a historic city in Okayama Prefecture known for its well-preserved castle ruins, traditional townscape, and famous cherry blossom viewing spots.
- 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: Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Target entity description: Uonuma, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is a rural city known for its high-quality rice production and as the hometown of actor Ken Watanabe.
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A.
Oppama, Japan
Oppama, Japan is an industrial coastal district in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, best known for its major Nissan automobile manufacturing plant.
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B.
Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Izumo, in Shimane Prefecture, Japan, is a historic city best known for the ancient Shinto shrine Izumo Taisha and its rich cultural and mythological heritage.
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C.
Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan
Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan is a historic castle town in northeastern Honshu known for its samurai heritage, Yonezawa beef, and scenic mountainous surroundings.
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D.
Oguni, Kumamoto, Japan
Oguni is a rural town in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, known for its hot springs, forested landscapes, and as the birthplace of bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato.
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E.
Tsuyama, Japan
Tsuyama, Japan is a historic city in Okayama Prefecture known for its well-preserved castle ruins, traditional townscape, and famous cherry blossom viewing spots.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Description of subject: Uonuma, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is a rural city known for its high-quality rice production and as the hometown of actor Ken Watanabe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.