RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)
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RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre) is a specialized meteorological center in Japan responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and issuing international volcanic ash advisories for aviation safety in its designated region.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre) canonical | 2 |
| Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Center | 2 |
| RSMC Tokyo – VAAC | 1 |
| Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Tokyo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8377241 — 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: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre) Context triple: [RSMC Buenos Aires (volcanic ash advisory centre), relatedTo, RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)]
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RSMC Washington (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Washington (volcanic ash advisory centre) is a specialized meteorological center operated by the United States that monitors volcanic activity and issues international volcanic ash advisories for aviation safety.
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B.
RSMC Toulouse (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Toulouse is a specialized meteorological center operated by Météo-France that provides international volcanic ash advisories to support aviation safety and hazard monitoring.
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C.
RSMC Anchorage (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Anchorage is a specialized meteorological center responsible for monitoring and issuing advisories on volcanic ash clouds affecting aviation in its designated region.
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D.
RSMC Wellington (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Wellington (volcanic ash advisory centre) is a specialized meteorological center responsible for monitoring and issuing advisories on volcanic ash clouds to support aviation safety in its designated region.
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E.
RSMC Darwin (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Darwin is a World Meteorological Organization-designated Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre responsible for monitoring and issuing warnings about volcanic ash clouds in its assigned region, particularly over parts of Australia and Southeast Asia.
- 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: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre) Target entity description: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre) is a specialized meteorological center in Japan responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and issuing international volcanic ash advisories for aviation safety in its designated region.
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A.
RSMC Washington (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Washington (volcanic ash advisory centre) is a specialized meteorological center operated by the United States that monitors volcanic activity and issues international volcanic ash advisories for aviation safety.
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B.
RSMC Toulouse (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Toulouse is a specialized meteorological center operated by Météo-France that provides international volcanic ash advisories to support aviation safety and hazard monitoring.
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C.
RSMC Anchorage (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Anchorage is a specialized meteorological center responsible for monitoring and issuing advisories on volcanic ash clouds affecting aviation in its designated region.
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D.
RSMC Wellington (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Wellington (volcanic ash advisory centre) is a specialized meteorological center responsible for monitoring and issuing advisories on volcanic ash clouds to support aviation safety in its designated region.
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E.
RSMC Darwin (volcanic ash advisory centre)
RSMC Darwin is a World Meteorological Organization-designated Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre responsible for monitoring and issuing warnings about volcanic ash clouds in its assigned region, particularly over parts of Australia and Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre
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Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre ⓘ |
| belongsToNetwork | global network of Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres ⓘ |
| city | Tokyo ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith | International Civil Aviation Organization ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy | World Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dataUsers |
air traffic control authorities
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airlines ⓘ meteorological services ⓘ |
| designatedBy |
International Civil Aviation Organization
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World Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
| field |
meteorology
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volcanology ⓘ |
| focus | international civil aviation ⓘ |
| governedBy |
ICAO Annex 3 provisions
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WMO technical regulations ⓘ |
| hazardType | volcanic ash in the atmosphere ⓘ |
| issues |
Volcanic Ash Advisory (VAA) products
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linked to:
Volcanic Ash Advisories
|
| issuesTo |
area control centres
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aviation users ⓘ meteorological watch offices ⓘ |
| languageOfCommunication |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tokyo ⓘ |
| mainObjective | enhance flight safety in its area of responsibility ⓘ |
| monitors |
volcanic ash cloud movement and dispersion
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volcanic eruptions affecting international air routes ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Japan Meteorological Agency ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | operational ⓘ |
| partOf | International Airways Volcano Watch ⓘ |
| productFormat | standardized ICAO volcanic ash advisory format ⓘ |
| purpose | protection of international air navigation from volcanic ash ⓘ |
| regionType | designated VAAC area of responsibility ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
issuing volcanic ash advisories
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monitoring volcanic ash clouds ⓘ supporting aviation safety ⓘ |
| sector | aviation meteorology ⓘ |
| shortName |
RSMC Tokyo – VAAC
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linked to:
RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)
|
| typeOfAdvisory | international volcanic ash advisory ⓘ |
| uses |
ground-based volcano monitoring data
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numerical dispersion models ⓘ satellite observations ⓘ |
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: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre) Description of subject: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre) is a specialized meteorological center in Japan responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and issuing international volcanic ash advisories for aviation safety in its designated region.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
RSMC Buenos Aires (volcanic ash advisory centre)
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relatedTo
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RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)
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RSMC Anchorage (volcanic ash advisory centre)
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relatedTo
→
RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)
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linked to: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)
linked to: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)
Global network of Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres
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hasComponent
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Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Tokyo
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linked to: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)
linked to: RSMC Tokyo (volcanic ash advisory centre)