Minamoto no Yoshitsune
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune was a legendary 12th-century Japanese military commander of the Minamoto clan, celebrated for his brilliant tactics in the Genpei War and later romanticized as a tragic hero in Japanese literature and folklore.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minamoto no Yoshitsune canonical | 7 |
| Yoshitsune | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682786 — 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: Minamoto no Yoshitsune Context triple: [Heian period, significantPerson, Minamoto no Yoshitsune]
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A.
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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B.
Yamanashi Hanzō
Yamanashi Hanzō was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the period of Japanese rule.
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C.
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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D.
Kodama Gentarō
Kodama Gentarō was a Japanese general and statesman who served as Governor-General of Taiwan, playing a key role in establishing Japanese colonial administration there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
- 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: Minamoto no Yoshitsune Target entity description: Minamoto no Yoshitsune was a legendary 12th-century Japanese military commander of the Minamoto clan, celebrated for his brilliant tactics in the Genpei War and later romanticized as a tragic hero in Japanese literature and folklore.
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A.
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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B.
Yamanashi Hanzō
Yamanashi Hanzō was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the period of Japanese rule.
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C.
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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D.
Kodama Gentarō
Kodama Gentarō was a Japanese general and statesman who served as Governor-General of Taiwan, playing a key role in establishing Japanese colonial administration there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Minamoto no Yoshitsune Description of subject: Minamoto no Yoshitsune was a legendary 12th-century Japanese military commander of the Minamoto clan, celebrated for his brilliant tactics in the Genpei War and later romanticized as a tragic hero in Japanese literature and folklore.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yoshitsune