Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879
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Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 is a historical study examining how and why Japan abandoned widespread firearm use and returned to traditional sword-based warfare during the early modern period.
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| Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14503896 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 Context triple: [Noël Perrin, notableWork, Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879]
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical study that examines Japan’s political, social, and cultural transformation under Allied occupation after World War II.
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B.
Samurai Japan
Samurai Japan is the nickname of Japan’s national baseball team, renowned for its strong international performances and multiple World Baseball Classic titles.
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C.
Sengoku
Sengoku refers to Japan’s turbulent “Warring States” period (c. 1467–1600), marked by constant military conflict, social upheaval, and the rise of powerful regional warlords.
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D.
Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Rebellion is a 1967 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi, renowned for its powerful critique of feudal authority and its starring performance by Toshiro Mifune.
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E.
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a seminal 1900 work of moral and cultural philosophy that explains the samurai code of ethics to Western readers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 Target entity description: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 is a historical study examining how and why Japan abandoned widespread firearm use and returned to traditional sword-based warfare during the early modern period.
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A.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical study that examines Japan’s political, social, and cultural transformation under Allied occupation after World War II.
-
B.
Samurai Japan
Samurai Japan is the nickname of Japan’s national baseball team, renowned for its strong international performances and multiple World Baseball Classic titles.
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C.
Sengoku
Sengoku refers to Japan’s turbulent “Warring States” period (c. 1467–1600), marked by constant military conflict, social upheaval, and the rise of powerful regional warlords.
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D.
Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Rebellion is a 1967 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi, renowned for its powerful critique of feudal authority and its starring performance by Toshiro Mifune.
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E.
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a seminal 1900 work of moral and cultural philosophy that explains the samurai code of ethics to Western readers.
- F. None of above. chosen
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