Nakamura, Owari Province
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Nakamura, Owari Province was a historical settlement in Japan’s former Owari Province, known as the birthplace of the samurai and later prominent figure Kinoshita Tōkichirō (Toyotomi Hideyoshi).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nakamura, Owari Province canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12977488 — 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: Nakamura, Owari Province Context triple: [Kinoshita Tōkichirō, placeOfBirth, Nakamura, Owari Province]
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Sunpu, Suruga Province
Sunpu in Suruga Province was a prominent castle town and political center in Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, historically notable as the retirement residence and death place of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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Okazaki, Mikawa Province
Okazaki in Mikawa Province is a historic Japanese castle town best known as the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Numata, Gunma
Numata, Gunma is a city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery, hot springs, and proximity to natural attractions such as lakes and ski areas.
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D.
Yoshida, Niigata
Yoshida, Niigata is a town in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, known as a local administrative and residential center on the coast of the Sea of Japan.
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E.
Gojō, Nara Prefecture
Gojō is a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery, historic temples, and traditional townscapes along the Yoshino River.
- 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: Nakamura, Owari Province Target entity description: Nakamura, Owari Province was a historical settlement in Japan’s former Owari Province, known as the birthplace of the samurai and later prominent figure Kinoshita Tōkichirō (Toyotomi Hideyoshi).
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A.
Sunpu, Suruga Province
Sunpu in Suruga Province was a prominent castle town and political center in Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, historically notable as the retirement residence and death place of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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B.
Okazaki, Mikawa Province
Okazaki in Mikawa Province is a historic Japanese castle town best known as the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Numata, Gunma
Numata, Gunma is a city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery, hot springs, and proximity to natural attractions such as lakes and ski areas.
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D.
Yoshida, Niigata
Yoshida, Niigata is a town in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, known as a local administrative and residential center on the coast of the Sea of Japan.
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E.
Gojō, Nara Prefecture
Gojō is a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery, historic temples, and traditional townscapes along the Yoshino River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
birthplace
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historical settlement ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Japanese samurai history
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Sengoku-period politics ⓘ Toyotomi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf |
Kinoshita Tōkichirō
NERFINISHED
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ samurai Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Tōkai region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | pre-Meiji Japan ⓘ |
| formerAdministrativeStatus | village ⓘ |
| geographicalContext | western Aichi area ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 中村 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalCountry | Daimyo-ruled Japan ⓘ |
| historicalProvinceContext | Owari Province was a former province of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | no longer an independent administrative unit ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chūbu region
NERFINISHED
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Honshu ⓘ Owari Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Nagoya urban area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with samurai origins of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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being the birthplace of Toyotomi Hideyoshi ⓘ |
| partOf | feudal Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentLocation | Nagoya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentPrefecture | Aichi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | rural settlement (historical) ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nakamura, Owari Province Description of subject: Nakamura, Owari Province was a historical settlement in Japan’s former Owari Province, known as the birthplace of the samurai and later prominent figure Kinoshita Tōkichirō (Toyotomi Hideyoshi).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.