Mount Minobu
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Mount Minobu is a sacred mountain in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, best known as the spiritual center of Nichiren Buddhism and the site of Kuon-ji Temple where the monk Nichiren spent his later years.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mount Minobu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12445071 — 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: Mount Minobu Context triple: [Nichiren, activityLocation, Mount Minobu]
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A.
Mount Ōmine
Mount Ōmine is a sacred mountain in Japan’s Nara Prefecture, renowned as a major center of Shugendō mountain asceticism and a UNESCO World Heritage pilgrimage site.
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B.
Mount Mitsumine
Mount Mitsumine is a scenic peak in Japan’s Chichibu region, renowned for its historic Mitsumine Shrine, mountain vistas, and spiritual hiking routes.
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C.
Mount Mitake
Mount Mitake is a popular sacred mountain in Tokyo’s Okutama region, known for its ancient Shinto shrine, hiking trails, and scenic views within the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park.
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D.
Mount Ōminakami
Mount Ōminakami is a mountain in Japan known primarily as the headwaters area of the Tone River, one of the country’s major river systems.
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E.
Mount Myogi
Mount Myogi is a rugged, scenic mountain in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture, famed for its dramatic rock formations, hiking routes, and status as one of the country’s most beautiful mountains.
- 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: Mount Minobu Target entity description: Mount Minobu is a sacred mountain in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, best known as the spiritual center of Nichiren Buddhism and the site of Kuon-ji Temple where the monk Nichiren spent his later years.
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A.
Mount Ōmine
Mount Ōmine is a sacred mountain in Japan’s Nara Prefecture, renowned as a major center of Shugendō mountain asceticism and a UNESCO World Heritage pilgrimage site.
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B.
Mount Mitsumine
Mount Mitsumine is a scenic peak in Japan’s Chichibu region, renowned for its historic Mitsumine Shrine, mountain vistas, and spiritual hiking routes.
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C.
Mount Mitake
Mount Mitake is a popular sacred mountain in Tokyo’s Okutama region, known for its ancient Shinto shrine, hiking trails, and scenic views within the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park.
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D.
Mount Ōminakami
Mount Ōminakami is a mountain in Japan known primarily as the headwaters area of the Tone River, one of the country’s major river systems.
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E.
Mount Myogi
Mount Myogi is a rugged, scenic mountain in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture, famed for its dramatic rock formations, hiking routes, and status as one of the country’s most beautiful mountains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
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Buddhist temple ⓘ head temple ⓘ mountain ⓘ sacred mountain ⓘ |
| alternateName | Kuon-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPeriod | Kamakura period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Nichiren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| diedAt | Kuon-ji (near Mount Minobu) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccess | bus from Minobu Station ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate mountain climate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalDesignation | important site of Japanese Buddhism ⓘ |
| hasElevation |
1153 m
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approximately 1150 m ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cable car
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mountain trails ⓘ temple complex of Kuon-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 身延山 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainTemple | Minobusan Kuon-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousPractice |
memorial services for Nichiren
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pilgrimage to Kuon-ji ⓘ sutra chanting ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificanceFor | followers of Nichiren Buddhism ⓘ |
| hasTemple | Kuon-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Fuji River valley
NERFINISHED
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Southern Japanese Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isHeadTempleOf | Nichiren-shū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Japanese sacred mountains ⓘ |
| isPilgrimageSiteFor | Nichiren Buddhists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSacredTo | Nichiren sects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpiritualCenterOf | Nichiren Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chūbu region
NERFINISHED
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Honshu ⓘ Yamanashi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Minobu, Yamanashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mount Minobu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearRiver | Fuji River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Akaishi Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Nichiren Buddhism
NERFINISHED
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Nichiren Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Nichiren Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spentLaterYearsAt |
Kuon-ji
NERFINISHED
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Mount Minobu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tourismType |
mountain tourism
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religious 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: Mount Minobu Description of subject: Mount Minobu is a sacred mountain in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, best known as the spiritual center of Nichiren Buddhism and the site of Kuon-ji Temple where the monk Nichiren spent his later years.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.