tozama domain
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A tozama domain was a feudal territory in Edo-period Japan ruled by a “outside” daimyo who was not a hereditary vassal of the Tokugawa before the Battle of Sekigahara, and thus held a more distant, often less trusted relationship with the shogunate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| tozama domain canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13167918 — 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: tozama domain Context triple: [Tosa Domain, status, tozama domain]
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A.
Dienst der Domeinen
Dienst der Domeinen was a former Dutch government agency responsible for managing and disposing of state-owned property and assets.
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B.
Crazy Domains
Crazy Domains is an internet services company best known for providing domain name registration, web hosting, and related online business solutions, particularly in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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C.
Nom.com
Nom.com was a live video streaming and social platform focused on food and cooking, co-founded by YouTube co-founder Steve Chen.
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D.
Te Kuiti Domain
Te Kuiti Domain is a public park and sports reserve in Te Kuiti, New Zealand, used for community recreation and outdoor events.
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E.
Norid
Norid is the Norwegian registry responsible for administering the country’s .no top-level internet domain.
- 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: tozama domain Target entity description: A tozama domain was a feudal territory in Edo-period Japan ruled by a “outside” daimyo who was not a hereditary vassal of the Tokugawa before the Battle of Sekigahara, and thus held a more distant, often less trusted relationship with the shogunate.
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A.
Dienst der Domeinen
Dienst der Domeinen was a former Dutch government agency responsible for managing and disposing of state-owned property and assets.
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B.
Crazy Domains
Crazy Domains is an internet services company best known for providing domain name registration, web hosting, and related online business solutions, particularly in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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C.
Nom.com
Nom.com was a live video streaming and social platform focused on food and cooking, co-founded by YouTube co-founder Steve Chen.
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D.
Te Kuiti Domain
Te Kuiti Domain is a public park and sports reserve in Te Kuiti, New Zealand, used for community recreation and outdoor events.
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E.
Norid
Norid is the Norwegian registry responsible for administering the country’s .no top-level internet domain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feudal domain
ⓘ
han ⓘ political division in Edo-period Japan ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationCriterion | allegiance to Tokugawa before Sekigahara ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
fudai domain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
shinpan domain ⓘ |
| definedBy | lack of hereditary vassalage to Tokugawa before Battle of Sekigahara ⓘ |
| documentedIn | Japanese Edo-period political history ⓘ |
| endedWith | abolition of the han system in 1871 ⓘ |
| etymology | "tozama" meaning "outside" or "outsider" ⓘ |
| governedBy | tozama daimyo ⓘ |
| governedFrom | castle town ⓘ |
| governedUnderSystem | bakuhan system ⓘ |
| hasAutonomyLevel | relatively high internal autonomy ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSignificance | often controlled large, wealthy territories ⓘ |
| hasLandAssessmentUnit | koku ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasLegalBasis | Tokugawa shogunate domain system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryRestriction | monitored for military buildup by shogunate ⓘ |
| hasMilitarySignificance | often controlled large military resources ⓘ |
| hasObligationsTo | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalRole | potential counterweight to Tokugawa power ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalStatus | outside vassal territory ⓘ |
| hasPowerBalanceFunction | kept at political distance from shogunate core ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipToShogunate |
distant
GENERATED
ⓘ
less trusted GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasRiskPerceptionByShogunate | potentially disloyal ⓘ |
| hasRulerStatus | non-hereditary Tokugawa vassal before Sekigahara ⓘ |
| hasSocialStructure | ruled by samurai class under daimyo ⓘ |
| hasSuccessionRule | hereditary rule within daimyo family ⓘ |
| hasType | tozama han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesNotableExamples |
Choshu Domain
GENERATED
ⓘ
Hizen Saga Domain GENERATED ⓘ Satsuma Domain GENERATED ⓘ Tosa Domain GENERATED ⓘ |
| minimumStipendForStatus | 10,000 koku ⓘ |
| oftenLocatedIn | peripheral regions of Japan ⓘ |
| partOf | Edo-period Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedRoleIn | Meiji Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | bakufu administrative records ⓘ |
| replacedBy | prefectural system of Meiji government ⓘ |
| restrictedIn | access to high shogunate offices ⓘ |
| ruledBy | outside daimyo ⓘ |
| subjectTo | alternate attendance (sankin-kotai) regulations ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | Edo 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: tozama domain Description of subject: A tozama domain was a feudal territory in Edo-period Japan ruled by a “outside” daimyo who was not a hereditary vassal of the Tokugawa before the Battle of Sekigahara, and thus held a more distant, often less trusted relationship with the shogunate.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.