Kyūan
E1043309
Kyūan was a Japanese era (nengō) of the late Heian period, spanning the reign of Emperor Toba and marked by courtly culture and political intrigue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kyūan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13494412 — 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: Kyūan Context triple: [Emperor Toba, eraNameUsed, Kyūan]
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A.
Gyōkyō
Gyōkyō was a Buddhist monk traditionally credited with establishing the important Shinto-Buddhist shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangū in Japan.
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B.
Taishi
Taishi was the first era name used by Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty, marking an important early phase of his long and influential reign in ancient China.
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C.
Taishi
Taishi is a town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its historical sites and traditional rural character.
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D.
Sunpu
Sunpu is the former name of the Japanese castle town that developed into modern Shizuoka City, historically known as a key stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Taihoku
Taihoku was the Japanese colonial-era name for Taipei, which served as the administrative and political center of Taiwan under 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: Kyūan Target entity description: Kyūan was a Japanese era (nengō) of the late Heian period, spanning the reign of Emperor Toba and marked by courtly culture and political intrigue.
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A.
Gyōkyō
Gyōkyō was a Buddhist monk traditionally credited with establishing the important Shinto-Buddhist shrine Iwashimizu Hachimangū in Japan.
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B.
Taishi
Taishi is a town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its historical sites and traditional rural character.
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C.
Taishi
Taishi was the first era name used by Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty, marking an important early phase of his long and influential reign in ancient China.
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D.
Sunpu
Sunpu is the former name of the Japanese castle town that developed into modern Shizuoka City, historically known as a key stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Taihoku
Taihoku was the Japanese colonial-era name for Taipei, which served as the administrative and political center of Taiwan under Japanese rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era name
ⓘ
nengō ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
courtly culture
ⓘ
political intrigue ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| capitalDuringEra | Heian-kyō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext | 12th century ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| endDate | 1151-01-26 ⓘ |
| endYear | 1151 ⓘ |
| eraNameFor | Emperor Konoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Ninpei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Ten'yō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEraSequenceNumber | 78 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | late Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedDuring | Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlapsGregorianYears |
1145
ⓘ
1146 ⓘ 1147 ⓘ 1148 ⓘ 1149 ⓘ 1150 ⓘ 1151 ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese era system ⓘ |
| precededBy | Ten'yō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes | Ninpei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kinai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignOverlapsWith |
Emperor Sutoku
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emperor Toba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Buddhism in Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shinto in Japan ⓘ |
| scriptOfName | kanji ⓘ |
| startDate | 1145-07-22 ⓘ |
| startYear | 1145 ⓘ |
| usedIn | Japanese imperial court 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: Kyūan Description of subject: Kyūan was a Japanese era (nengō) of the late Heian period, spanning the reign of Emperor Toba and marked by courtly culture and political intrigue.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.