Tōkaidō post station

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post station transport infrastructure

A Tōkaidō post station was one of the officially designated rest and relay points along Japan’s historic Tōkaidō road, providing lodging, services, and logistical support to travelers between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Hakone-juku	3
Chiryū-juku post station	1
Kuwana-juku (Tōkaidō post station)	1
Tōkaidō post station canonical	1
Tōkaidō post station system	1
東海道品川宿跡	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6307805 — 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: Tōkaidō post station
Context triple: [Ōiso, historicalStatus, Tōkaidō post station]

A. Taisho Station
Taisho Station is a railway and subway station in Osaka, Japan, serving as a key access point to the nearby Kyocera Dome Osaka stadium.
B. Gotanda Station
Gotanda Station is a major railway and metro hub in Tokyo’s Shinagawa ward, serving multiple JR and private lines and surrounded by busy commercial and office districts.
C. Fushimi-yagura
Fushimi-yagura is a historic three-story castle turret within the Tokyo Imperial Palace complex, notable as one of the few surviving Edo-period structures in the area.
D. Tōkaidō
Tōkaidō is a historic coastal route in Japan that connected Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto, serving as a major artery for travel, trade, and culture.
E. 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.
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: Tōkaidō post station
Target entity description: A Tōkaidō post station was one of the officially designated rest and relay points along Japan’s historic Tōkaidō road, providing lodging, services, and logistical support to travelers between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto.

A. Taisho Station
Taisho Station is a railway and subway station in Osaka, Japan, serving as a key access point to the nearby Kyocera Dome Osaka stadium.
B. Gotanda Station
Gotanda Station is a major railway and metro hub in Tokyo’s Shinagawa ward, serving multiple JR and private lines and surrounded by busy commercial and office districts.
C. Fushimi-yagura
Fushimi-yagura is a historic three-story castle turret within the Tokyo Imperial Palace complex, notable as one of the few surviving Edo-period structures in the area.
D. Tōkaidō
Tōkaidō is a historic coastal route in Japan that connected Tokyo (Edo) and Kyoto, serving as a major artery for travel, trade, and culture.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	post station ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ
associatedWithArtist	Utagawa Hiroshige ⓘ
category	Edo-period infrastructure ⓘ Historical geography of Japan ⓘ linked to: Fudoki
connects	Edo ⓘ Kyoto ⓘ
developedInto	post town ⓘ
hasFacility	hatago ⓘ honjin ⓘ inn ⓘ official checkpoints ⓘ shops ⓘ stables ⓘ sub-honjin ⓘ tea house ⓘ
hasFunction	horse relay station ⓘ lodging facility ⓘ logistical support point ⓘ provisioning point for travelers ⓘ relay point for official messengers ⓘ rest stop for travelers ⓘ transport hub on the Tōkaidō ⓘ
hasJapaneseName	宿場 ⓘ 宿場町 ⓘ
hasNotableRepresentationIn	The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō ⓘ Ukiyo-e prints ⓘ linked to: ukiyo-e
hasRole	collection of fees and taxes from travelers ⓘ control of movement along Tōkaidō ⓘ support of sankin-kōtai system ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Edo period ⓘ
influenced	urban development along Tōkaidō ⓘ
isPartOf	Gokaidō post station system ⓘ
languageOfName	Japanese ⓘ
legalStatus	officially designated station ⓘ
locatedInCountry	Japan ⓘ
locatedOn	Tōkaidō ⓘ
numberOfStationsOnRoute	53 ⓘ
partOf	Edo period transportation network ⓘ
regulatedBy	Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ
transportModeServed	foot travel ⓘ horseback travel ⓘ palanquin travel ⓘ
usedBy	common travelers ⓘ daimyō processions ⓘ merchants ⓘ official couriers ⓘ pilgrims ⓘ

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