Yahashira-no-Mikogami
E311181
Yahashira-no-Mikogami is a Shinto deity venerated at Yasaka Shrine, associated with protection and blessings for worshippers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yahashira-no-Mikogami canonical | 1 |
| 八柱御子神 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2886560 — 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: Yahashira-no-Mikogami Context triple: [Yasaka Shrine, dedicatedTo, Yahashira-no-Mikogami]
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A.
Kamo Wake-ikazuchi no Kami
Kamo Wake-ikazuchi no Kami is a Shinto thunder deity venerated at Kyoto’s Kamigamo Shrine and regarded as a powerful protector of the city.
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B.
Hachiman
Hachiman is a major Shinto deity revered as the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people, especially warriors.
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C.
Ninigi-no-Mikoto
Ninigi-no-Mikoto is a central deity in Japanese mythology, known as the grandson of the sun goddess Amaterasu who descended to earth and became the divine progenitor of Japan’s imperial line.
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D.
Tōshō
Tōshō is the commonly used Japanese abbreviation for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one of the world’s largest and most influential stock markets.
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E.
Ōkuninushi
Ōkuninushi is a major Shinto deity associated with nation-building, medicine, agriculture, and good fortune, often revered as a protector and creator of the land of Japan.
- 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: Yahashira-no-Mikogami Target entity description: Yahashira-no-Mikogami is a Shinto deity venerated at Yasaka Shrine, associated with protection and blessings for worshippers.
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A.
Kamo Wake-ikazuchi no Kami
Kamo Wake-ikazuchi no Kami is a Shinto thunder deity venerated at Kyoto’s Kamigamo Shrine and regarded as a powerful protector of the city.
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B.
Hachiman
Hachiman is a major Shinto deity revered as the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people, especially warriors.
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C.
Ninigi-no-Mikoto
Ninigi-no-Mikoto is a central deity in Japanese mythology, known as the grandson of the sun goddess Amaterasu who descended to earth and became the divine progenitor of Japan’s imperial line.
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D.
Tōshō
Tōshō is the commonly used Japanese abbreviation for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one of the world’s largest and most influential stock markets.
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E.
Ōkuninushi
Ōkuninushi is a major Shinto deity associated with nation-building, medicine, agriculture, and good fortune, often revered as a protector and creator of the land of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Shinto deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
blessings
ⓘ
protection ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| cultCenter | Yasaka Shrine ⓘ |
| hasPlaceOfWorshipType | Shinto shrine ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| veneratedAt | Yasaka Shrine ⓘ |
| veneration | Japan ⓘ |
| worshippedBy | Shinto worshippers ⓘ |
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: Yahashira-no-Mikogami Description of subject: Yahashira-no-Mikogami is a Shinto deity venerated at Yasaka Shrine, associated with protection and blessings for worshippers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.