Tamayori-hime
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Tamayori-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, often associated with water and the sea, revered as the mother of Japan’s legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toyotama-hime | 4 |
| Tamayori-hime canonical | 3 |
| Tamayori-hime no Mikoto | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T997156 — 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: Tamayori-hime Context triple: [Emperor Jimmu, mother, Tamayori-hime]
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A.
Himetatara Isuzuhime
Himetatara Isuzuhime is a legendary figure in Japanese mythology known as the consort of Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
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B.
Princess Shigeko
Princess Shigeko was the eldest daughter of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, known for her role as a member of the Japanese imperial family during the Shōwa era.
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C.
Miraitowa
Miraitowa is the futuristic, blue-and-white checkered character created as the official mascot of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, symbolizing tradition, innovation, and a hopeful future.
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D.
Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi was a renowned 9th-century Japanese waka poet celebrated for her passionate verse and legendary beauty, and is counted among the Rokkasen and Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
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E.
Princess Takako
Princess Takako is a Japanese imperial family member and daughter of Emperor Hirohito, known for her role in Japan’s modern royal lineage.
- 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: Tamayori-hime Target entity description: Tamayori-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, often associated with water and the sea, revered as the mother of Japan’s legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
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A.
Himetatara Isuzuhime
Himetatara Isuzuhime is a legendary figure in Japanese mythology known as the consort of Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
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B.
Princess Shigeko
Princess Shigeko was the eldest daughter of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, known for her role as a member of the Japanese imperial family during the Shōwa era.
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C.
Miraitowa
Miraitowa is the futuristic, blue-and-white checkered character created as the official mascot of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, symbolizing tradition, innovation, and a hopeful future.
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D.
Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi was a renowned 9th-century Japanese waka poet celebrated for her passionate verse and legendary beauty, and is counted among the Rokkasen and Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
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E.
Princess Takako
Princess Takako is a Japanese imperial family member and daughter of Emperor Hirohito, known for her role in Japan’s modern royal lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Japanese mythology
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goddess ⓘ kami ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Kojiki
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Nihon Shoki ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
fertility
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protection of seafarers ⓘ sea ⓘ water ⓘ |
| child | Emperor Jimmu ⓘ |
| classification | mythological princess ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction | link between human and divine realms ⓘ |
| countryOfCult | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
nurturing
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protective ⓘ purity ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
coastal regions
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sea and waterways ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalRole |
ancestral deity of the imperial line
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mother of a culture hero ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Tamayori-hime
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tamayori-hime no Mikoto
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| honorificSuffix | -hime ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| mythology |
Japanese mythology
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Shinto mythology ⓘ |
| nameElementMeaning |
hime (princess, lady)
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tama (spirit, jewel) ⓘ yori (approach, depend on) ⓘ |
| nameWrittenInKanji | 玉依姫 ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| role | mother of Emperor Jimmu ⓘ |
| typeOfDeity | ancestral kami ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
mother of Japan’s first legendary emperor
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protective deity of the imperial family ⓘ |
| worshippedIn | Shinto shrines ⓘ |
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: Tamayori-hime Description of subject: Tamayori-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, often associated with water and the sea, revered as the mother of Japan’s legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Toyotama-hime
this entity surface form:
Toyotama-hime
this entity surface form:
Toyotama-hime
this entity surface form:
Tamayori-hime no Mikoto
this entity surface form:
Toyotama-hime