Nakagin Co., Ltd.
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Nakagin Co., Ltd. is the Japanese real estate and development company best known for commissioning Tokyo’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower, a landmark of Metabolist architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nakagin Co., Ltd. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9819007 — 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: Nakagin Co., Ltd. Context triple: [Nakagin Capsule Tower, client, Nakagin Co., Ltd.]
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A.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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B.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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C.
Nippon Kobo
Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
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D.
Obayashi Corporation
Obayashi Corporation is a major Japanese construction and engineering company known for its involvement in large-scale infrastructure and building projects worldwide.
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E.
Taisei Corporation
Taisei Corporation is a major Japanese construction and civil engineering company known for leading large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects in Japan and abroad.
- 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: Nakagin Co., Ltd. Target entity description: Nakagin Co., Ltd. is the Japanese real estate and development company best known for commissioning Tokyo’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower, a landmark of Metabolist architecture.
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A.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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B.
Yoshimoto Kogyo
Yoshimoto Kogyo is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate best known for managing comedians and producing comedy shows, theater, television, and other media.
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C.
Nippon Kobo
Nippon Kobo was a Japanese design and architecture firm active in the mid-20th century, known for its collaborations with prominent modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.
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D.
Obayashi Corporation
Obayashi Corporation is a major Japanese construction and engineering company known for its involvement in large-scale infrastructure and building projects worldwide.
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E.
Taisei Corporation
Taisei Corporation is a major Japanese construction and civil engineering company known for leading large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects in Japan and abroad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | real estate company ⓘ |
| activity | real estate development in Tokyo ⓘ |
| associatedArchitectureMovement | Metabolism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Metabolist architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Metabolist architects
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| commissioned | Nakagin Capsule Tower ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Tokyo ⓘ |
| industry |
property development
ⓘ
real estate ⓘ |
| knownFor | commissioning the Nakagin Capsule Tower ⓘ |
| locationOfBusiness | Japan ⓘ |
| notableWork | Nakagin Capsule Tower ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | urban real estate development ⓘ |
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: Nakagin Co., Ltd. Description of subject: Nakagin Co., Ltd. is the Japanese real estate and development company best known for commissioning Tokyo’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower, a landmark of Metabolist architecture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.