Kōfuku-ji
E107735
Kōfuku-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, renowned for its ancient pagodas and status as part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara.”
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kōfuku-ji canonical | 8 |
| Kofuku-ji | 2 |
| Five-storied pagoda of Kōfuku-ji | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T855776 — 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: Kōfuku-ji Context triple: [Nara, hasFamousSite, Kōfuku-ji]
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A.
Tōdai-ji
Tōdai-ji is a monumental Buddhist temple complex in Nara, Japan, renowned for housing one of the world’s largest bronze statues of the Buddha (Daibutsu) and serving as a historic center of Japanese Buddhism.
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B.
Senso-ji Temple
Senso-ji Temple is Tokyo’s oldest and most famous Buddhist temple, renowned for its iconic Kaminarimon gate and bustling Nakamise shopping street.
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C.
Nanzen-ji
Nanzen-ji is a major Zen Buddhist temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic architecture, serene gardens, and status as one of the most important Zen temples in the country.
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D.
Kiyomizu-dera
Kiyomizu-dera is a famous historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its large wooden stage that offers panoramic views of the city and surrounding hills.
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E.
Heian Shrine
Heian Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its striking vermilion buildings, expansive gardens, and role as a partial replica of the ancient Heian Palace.
- 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: Kōfuku-ji Target entity description: Kōfuku-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, renowned for its ancient pagodas and status as part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara.”
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A.
Tōdai-ji
Tōdai-ji is a monumental Buddhist temple complex in Nara, Japan, renowned for housing one of the world’s largest bronze statues of the Buddha (Daibutsu) and serving as a historic center of Japanese Buddhism.
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B.
Senso-ji Temple
Senso-ji Temple is Tokyo’s oldest and most famous Buddhist temple, renowned for its iconic Kaminarimon gate and bustling Nakamise shopping street.
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C.
Nanzen-ji
Nanzen-ji is a major Zen Buddhist temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic architecture, serene gardens, and status as one of the most important Zen temples in the country.
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D.
Kiyomizu-dera
Kiyomizu-dera is a famous historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its large wooden stage that offers panoramic views of the city and surrounding hills.
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E.
Heian Shrine
Heian Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its striking vermilion buildings, expansive gardens, and role as a partial replica of the ancient Heian Palace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Kōfuku-ji Description of subject: Kōfuku-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, renowned for its ancient pagodas and status as part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara.”
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kofuku-ji
this entity surface form:
Five-storied pagoda of Kōfuku-ji
this entity surface form:
Kofuku-ji