Nishi-Mikawa
E949493
Nishi-Mikawa is a Japanese vehicle registration code used for cars registered in the western part of Mikawa region in Aichi Prefecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nishi-Mikawa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10015053 — 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: Nishi-Mikawa Context triple: [Aichi Prefecture, vehicleRegistrationCode, Nishi-Mikawa]
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A.
Ikawai
Ikawai is a small rural settlement in the Waimate District of the Canterbury region on New Zealand’s South Island.
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B.
Takehara-shi
Takehara-shi is a coastal city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, known for its well-preserved historic townscape and traditional salt-making heritage.
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C.
Ōgaki
Ōgaki is a former municipality in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, that was incorporated into the city of Etajima.
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D.
Kisarazu
Kisarazu is a coastal city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, known as the mainland terminus of the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line expressway.
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E.
Nishi-Okano
Nishi-Okano is a notable neighborhood within Nishi Ward in the city of Yokohama, Japan.
- 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: Nishi-Mikawa Target entity description: Nishi-Mikawa is a Japanese vehicle registration code used for cars registered in the western part of Mikawa region in Aichi Prefecture.
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A.
Ikawai
Ikawai is a small rural settlement in the Waimate District of the Canterbury region on New Zealand’s South Island.
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B.
Takehara-shi
Takehara-shi is a coastal city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, known for its well-preserved historic townscape and traditional salt-making heritage.
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C.
Ōgaki
Ōgaki is a former municipality in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, that was incorporated into the city of Etajima.
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D.
Kisarazu
Kisarazu is a coastal city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, known as the mainland terminus of the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line expressway.
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E.
Nishi-Okano
Nishi-Okano is a notable neighborhood within Nishi Ward in the city of Yokohama, Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese vehicle registration code
ⓘ
license plate code ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
buses
ⓘ
motor vehicles ⓘ passenger cars ⓘ trucks ⓘ |
| category |
transport in Aichi Prefecture
ⓘ
vehicle registration plates of Japan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| denotes | place of registration within Aichi Prefecture ⓘ |
| hasFunction | identification of vehicle registration location ⓘ |
| hasType | geographic code ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| partOf | Aichi Prefecture vehicle registration codes ⓘ |
| prefecture | Aichi Prefecture ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Mikawa
ⓘ
western Mikawa region ⓘ
linked to:
Mikawa region
|
| regulatingAuthority |
District Transport Bureau
ⓘ
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ⓘ |
| script |
Japanese characters
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedIn | Japanese vehicle registration system ⓘ |
| usedOn | number plates ⓘ |
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: Nishi-Mikawa Description of subject: Nishi-Mikawa is a Japanese vehicle registration code used for cars registered in the western part of Mikawa region in Aichi Prefecture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.