Chōsokabe clan
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The Chōsokabe clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known for its unification of Shikoku under the leadership of Chōsokabe Motochika.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chōsokabe clan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12421837 — 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: Chōsokabe clan Context triple: [Chōsokabe Motochika, clan, Chōsokabe clan]
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A.
Kobayakawa clan
The Kobayakawa clan was a prominent samurai family of western Japan, influential in the Sengoku period and later known for the pivotal role of Kobayakawa Hideaki at the Battle of Sekigahara.
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B.
Nagao clan
The Nagao clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Sengoku period, best known as the original family of the famed warlord Uesugi Kenshin before his adoption into the Uesugi clan.
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C.
Hosokawa clan
The Hosokawa clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence as influential shugo (military governors) and key political players during the Muromachi and Sengoku periods.
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D.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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E.
Azai clan
The Azai clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, known for its rule over northern Ōmi Province and its eventual destruction by Oda Nobunaga.
- 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: Chōsokabe clan Target entity description: The Chōsokabe clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known for its unification of Shikoku under the leadership of Chōsokabe Motochika.
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A.
Kobayakawa clan
The Kobayakawa clan was a prominent samurai family of western Japan, influential in the Sengoku period and later known for the pivotal role of Kobayakawa Hideaki at the Battle of Sekigahara.
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B.
Nagao clan
The Nagao clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Sengoku period, best known as the original family of the famed warlord Uesugi Kenshin before his adoption into the Uesugi clan.
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C.
Hosokawa clan
The Hosokawa clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence as influential shugo (military governors) and key political players during the Muromachi and Sengoku periods.
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D.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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E.
Azai clan
The Azai clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, known for its rule over northern Ōmi Province and its eventual destruction by Oda Nobunaga.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
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samurai clan ⓘ |
| allegiance | Toyotomi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Tosa samurai culture ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| crest | Hidari-mitsudomoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defeatedAt | Battle of Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| descendantsStatus | hatamoto under Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| dispossessedBy | Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domain | Tosa Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| fate | lost domain after Sekigahara ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 16th century Japan ⓘ |
| homeProvince | Tosa Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
rule over Tosa Province
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unification of Shikoku ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| laterResidence | Kōchi Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lostControlOfShikokuTo | Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCastle |
Okō Castle
NERFINISHED
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Urato Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Chōsokabe Kunichika
NERFINISHED
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Chōsokabe Morichika NERFINISHED ⓘ Chōsokabe Motochika NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent |
Kōno clan
NERFINISHED
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Miyoshi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mōri clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Oda clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Hata clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
NERFINISHED
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Kyūshū campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
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Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Shikoku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
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Shinto ⓘ |
| sideAtSekigahara | Western Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | buke ⓘ |
| status | daimyō ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Chōsokabe clan Description of subject: The Chōsokabe clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known for its unification of Shikoku under the leadership of Chōsokabe Motochika.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.