Otowa Waterfall

E286063

sacred spring tourist attraction waterfall

Otowa Waterfall is a famous sacred spring at Kyoto’s Kiyomizu-dera temple where visitors drink from three separate streams believed to grant health, longevity, and academic success.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Otowa Waterfall canonical	4
Otowa spring	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	sacred spring ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ waterfall ⓘ
associatedBelief	drinking from more than one stream is considered greedy by some ⓘ
associatedWith	Kannon ⓘ
believedToGrant	academic success ⓘ health ⓘ longevity ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
culturalSignificance	popular pilgrimage site ⓘ sacred place in Japanese Buddhism ⓘ
feature	three separate streams ⓘ
flowType	continuous spring flow ⓘ
hasAccess	stone steps from main Kiyomizu-dera terrace ⓘ
hasCustom	choosing one of three streams to drink from ⓘ using metal cups or ladles on long poles ⓘ
hasNumberOfStreams	3 ⓘ
hasStructure	pavilion with ladles for drinking water ⓘ
hasView	valley below Kiyomizu-dera ⓘ
isFamousFor	association with wishes for success ⓘ being one of the main attractions of Kiyomizu-dera ⓘ clear spring water ⓘ
languageOfName	Japanese ⓘ
locatedIn	Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto ⓘ Japan ⓘ Kiyomizu-dera ⓘ Kyoto ⓘ Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ
managedBy	Kiyomizu-dera ⓘ surface form: Kiyomizu-dera temple authorities
materialOfLadles	metal ⓘ
nameMeaning	sound of feathers ⓘ
near	Kyoto ⓘ surface form: Kyoto city center Kiyomizu-dera ⓘ surface form: main hall of Kiyomizu-dera
partOf	Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto ⓘ surface form: Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (through Kiyomizu-dera) Kiyomizu-dera ⓘ surface form: Kiyomizu-dera temple complex
religiousFunction	place for making wishes ⓘ place for purification ⓘ
religiousTradition	Buddhism ⓘ
touristPopularity	high ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageContext	Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto ⓘ surface form: Kiyomizu-dera is part of Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
usedBy	pilgrims ⓘ visitors to Kiyomizu-dera ⓘ
visitedFor	prayer for good fortune ⓘ ritual drinking of water ⓘ tourism ⓘ
waterSource	Otowa Waterfall self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Otowa spring spring water ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Otowa Waterfall
Description of subject: Otowa Waterfall is a famous sacred spring at Kyoto’s Kiyomizu-dera temple where visitors drink from three separate streams believed to grant health, longevity, and academic success.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kiyomizu-dera → knownFor → Otowa Waterfall ⓘ

Kiyomizu-dera → hasPart → Otowa Waterfall ⓘ

Otowa Waterfall → waterSource → Otowa Waterfall self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Otowa spring

three streams of Otowa Waterfall → partOf → Otowa Waterfall ⓘ

Pure Water Temple → hasFeature → Otowa Waterfall ⓘ