Obihiro
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Obihiro is a mid-sized city in eastern Hokkaido, Japan, known for its agricultural production, horse racing, and cold, snowy winters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Obihiro canonical | 24 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T610670 — 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: Obihiro Context triple: [Hokkaido, hasCity, Obihiro]
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A.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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B.
Yoshihito
Yoshihito was the 123rd Emperor of Japan, whose reign from 1912 to 1926 is known as the Taishō era, marked by political liberalization and cultural modernization.
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C.
Kume Kunitake
Kume Kunitake was a Meiji-era Japanese scholar, historian, and statesman best known for documenting the Iwakura Mission’s journey and for his influential writings on Japan’s modernization.
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D.
Hachiman
Hachiman is a major Shinto deity revered as the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people, especially warriors.
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E.
Yasuhiro
Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
- 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: Obihiro Target entity description: Obihiro is a mid-sized city in eastern Hokkaido, Japan, known for its agricultural production, horse racing, and cold, snowy winters.
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A.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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B.
Yoshihito
Yoshihito was the 123rd Emperor of Japan, whose reign from 1912 to 1926 is known as the Taishō era, marked by political liberalization and cultural modernization.
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C.
Kume Kunitake
Kume Kunitake was a Meiji-era Japanese scholar, historian, and statesman best known for documenting the Iwakura Mission’s journey and for his influential writings on Japan’s modernization.
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D.
Hachiman
Hachiman is a major Shinto deity revered as the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people, especially warriors.
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E.
Yasuhiro
Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Obihiro Description of subject: Obihiro is a mid-sized city in eastern Hokkaido, Japan, known for its agricultural production, horse racing, and cold, snowy winters.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.