Port of Hakodate
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The Port of Hakodate is a major seaport in southern Hokkaido, Japan, serving as a key hub for regional trade, fishing, and ferry transportation.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Hakodate canonical | 3 |
| Hakodate port area | 2 |
| Hakodate Bay waterfront | 1 |
| Hakodate Port Authority | 1 |
| Hakodate Port area | 1 |
| Hakodate harbor | 1 |
| Hakodate port opening | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8580587 — 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: Port of Hakodate Context triple: [Hakodate, hasPort, Port of Hakodate]
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A.
Port of Wakkanai
The Port of Wakkanai is Japan’s northernmost seaport, serving as a key maritime gateway between Hokkaido and nearby Russian territories such as Sakhalin.
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B.
Port of Akita
The Port of Akita is a key seaport on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast that supports regional industry, trade, and maritime transport for Akita Prefecture.
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C.
Port of Niigata
The Port of Niigata is a major seaport on the Sea of Japan in north-central Honshu, serving as an important hub for international trade, ferry services, and regional industry in Japan.
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D.
Port of Otaru
The Port of Otaru is a major commercial and passenger seaport on Hokkaido’s Sea of Japan coast, historically serving as a key maritime gateway for trade and transport in northern Japan.
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E.
Onagawa Port
Onagawa Port is a coastal harbor town in northeastern Japan known for its fishing industry, scenic bay, and reconstruction efforts following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
- 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: Port of Hakodate Target entity description: The Port of Hakodate is a major seaport in southern Hokkaido, Japan, serving as a key hub for regional trade, fishing, and ferry transportation.
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A.
Port of Wakkanai
The Port of Wakkanai is Japan’s northernmost seaport, serving as a key maritime gateway between Hokkaido and nearby Russian territories such as Sakhalin.
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B.
Port of Akita
The Port of Akita is a key seaport on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast that supports regional industry, trade, and maritime transport for Akita Prefecture.
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C.
Port of Niigata
The Port of Niigata is a major seaport on the Sea of Japan in north-central Honshu, serving as an important hub for international trade, ferry services, and regional industry in Japan.
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D.
Port of Otaru
The Port of Otaru is a major commercial and passenger seaport on Hokkaido’s Sea of Japan coast, historically serving as a key maritime gateway for trade and transport in northern Japan.
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E.
Onagawa Port
Onagawa Port is a coastal harbor town in northeastern Japan known for its fishing industry, scenic bay, and reconstruction efforts following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
seaport
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| cityServed | Hakodate ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Aomori
ⓘ
Honshu ⓘ domestic ferry routes ⓘ international shipping routes ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Hakodate City
ⓘ
linked to:
Hakodate
Hakodate Port Authority ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Hakodate
|
| hasFacility |
cargo berths
ⓘ
cold storage facilities ⓘ container terminal ⓘ customs office ⓘ ferry terminal building ⓘ fishing wharf ⓘ immigration facilities ⓘ passenger terminal ⓘ quarantine facilities ⓘ warehouse area ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cargo handling
ⓘ
ferry terminal ⓘ fishing port ⓘ logistics hub ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ regional trade hub ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTransport |
Hakodate Airport
ⓘ
Hakodate Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hakodate
ⓘ
Hokkaido ⓘ Oshima Subprefecture ⓘ southern Hokkaido ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
Sea of Japan ⓘ Tsugaru Strait ⓘ |
| openTo |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
fishing vessels ⓘ passenger ferries ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese port system ⓘ |
| regionServed |
northern Honshu
ⓘ
southern Hokkaido ⓘ |
| transportMode |
maritime transport
ⓘ
roll-on/roll-off ferry ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cruise ship calls
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export of goods ⓘ import of goods ⓘ seafood landing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: Port of Hakodate Description of subject: The Port of Hakodate is a major seaport in southern Hokkaido, Japan, serving as a key hub for regional trade, fishing, and ferry transportation.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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