Sano Service Area
E937001
Sano Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, known for serving travelers on the Tohoku Expressway with food, shopping, and rest facilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sano Service Area canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11606186 — 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: Sano Service Area Context triple: [Tohoku Expressway, hasServiceArea, Sano Service Area]
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A.
Enakyo Service Area
Enakyo Service Area is a roadside rest and service facility located along Japan’s Meishin Expressway, offering travelers amenities such as parking, food, restrooms, and shops.
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B.
Kusatsu Service Area
Kusatsu Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, offering food, shopping, and facilities for travelers along the Meishin Expressway.
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C.
Ashigara Service Area
Ashigara Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Japan offering food, shopping, and amenities to travelers along the Tōmei Expressway.
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D.
Ōtsu Service Area
Ōtsu Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, known for its facilities, food options, and views for travelers on the Meishin Expressway.
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E.
Ebina Service Area
Ebina Service Area is a large, popular highway rest stop in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its extensive food options, shopping facilities, and amenities for travelers.
- 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: Sano Service Area Target entity description: Sano Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, known for serving travelers on the Tohoku Expressway with food, shopping, and rest facilities.
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A.
Enakyo Service Area
Enakyo Service Area is a roadside rest and service facility located along Japan’s Meishin Expressway, offering travelers amenities such as parking, food, restrooms, and shops.
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B.
Kusatsu Service Area
Kusatsu Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, offering food, shopping, and facilities for travelers along the Meishin Expressway.
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C.
Ashigara Service Area
Ashigara Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Japan offering food, shopping, and amenities to travelers along the Tōmei Expressway.
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D.
Ōtsu Service Area
Ōtsu Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, known for its facilities, food options, and views for travelers on the Meishin Expressway.
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E.
Ebina Service Area
Ebina Service Area is a large, popular highway rest stop in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its extensive food options, shopping facilities, and amenities for travelers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rest area
ⓘ
roadside service area ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
convenience store
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food court ⓘ gas station ⓘ information desk ⓘ parking area ⓘ parking for buses ⓘ parking for passenger cars ⓘ restaurants ⓘ restrooms ⓘ seating area ⓘ souvenir shops ⓘ vending machines ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
food and shopping complex
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rest facilities ⓘ tourist information materials ⓘ |
| languageOfSignage | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tochigi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Tohoku Expressway ⓘ |
| operatorType | expressway service area operator ⓘ |
| serves | highway travelers ⓘ |
| servesRoute | Tohoku region traffic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
driver rest
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meal breaks ⓘ shopping during travel ⓘ |
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: Sano Service Area Description of subject: Sano Service Area is a major roadside rest and service complex in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, known for serving travelers on the Tohoku Expressway with food, shopping, and rest facilities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.