Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
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Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu was a powerful Edo-period daimyo and close advisor to shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, known for his political influence and cultural patronage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12242543 — 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: Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu Context triple: [Rikugien Garden, builtBy, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu]
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A.
Tanaka Hidemitsu
Tanaka Hidemitsu was a Japanese novelist and essayist known for his introspective, often autobiographical works that explored postwar Japanese society and personal alienation.
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B.
Hosokawa Tadaoki
Hosokawa Tadaoki was a Sengoku- and early Edo-period Japanese daimyō known for his military service under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and for his deep involvement in the tea ceremony culture.
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C.
Chōsokabe Motochika
Chōsokabe Motochika was a prominent Sengoku-period daimyō who unified Shikoku under his rule before being subdued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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D.
Uesugi Kagekatsu
Uesugi Kagekatsu was a prominent Sengoku and early Edo period daimyō who inherited leadership of the Uesugi clan and became a key opponent of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign.
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E.
Toyotomi Kunimatsu
Toyotomi Kunimatsu was a young samurai of the late Sengoku and early Edo periods in Japan, remembered primarily as a grandson of Toyotomi Hideyoshi whose execution symbolized the final destruction of the Toyotomi clan by the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 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: Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu Target entity description: Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu was a powerful Edo-period daimyo and close advisor to shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, known for his political influence and cultural patronage.
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A.
Tanaka Hidemitsu
Tanaka Hidemitsu was a Japanese novelist and essayist known for his introspective, often autobiographical works that explored postwar Japanese society and personal alienation.
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B.
Hosokawa Tadaoki
Hosokawa Tadaoki was a Sengoku- and early Edo-period Japanese daimyō known for his military service under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and for his deep involvement in the tea ceremony culture.
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C.
Chōsokabe Motochika
Chōsokabe Motochika was a prominent Sengoku-period daimyō who unified Shikoku under his rule before being subdued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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D.
Uesugi Kagekatsu
Uesugi Kagekatsu was a prominent Sengoku and early Edo period daimyō who inherited leadership of the Uesugi clan and became a key opponent of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign.
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E.
Toyotomi Kunimatsu
Toyotomi Kunimatsu was a young samurai of the late Sengoku and early Edo periods in Japan, remembered primarily as a grandson of Toyotomi Hideyoshi whose execution symbolized the final destruction of the Toyotomi clan by the Tokugawa shogunate.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.