Emperor Go-Shirakawa
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Emperor Go-Shirakawa was a 12th-century Japanese emperor whose turbulent reign and subsequent cloistered rule marked a pivotal period of political conflict and transition in the late Heian era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emperor Go-Shirakawa canonical | 11 |
| 後白河天皇 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3020635 — 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: Emperor Go-Shirakawa Context triple: [Hōgen Rebellion, opponentOf, Emperor Go-Shirakawa]
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A.
Emperor Shirakawa
Emperor Shirakawa was a Japanese sovereign of the late 11th and early 12th centuries who is renowned for pioneering the system of cloistered rule that shaped Heian-period politics.
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B.
Emperor Go-Toba
Emperor Go-Toba was a late 12th- to early 13th-century Japanese emperor known for his cultural patronage, especially of poetry, and for leading the failed Jōkyū War against the Kamakura shogunate.
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C.
Emperor Daigo
Emperor Daigo was a 10th-century Japanese sovereign whose relatively stable and culturally vibrant reign is often regarded as a high point of the Heian-period imperial court.
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D.
Emperor Kameyama
Emperor Kameyama was a 13th-century Japanese emperor of the Kamakura period known for his religious devotion and patronage of Zen Buddhism.
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E.
Emperor Kanmu
Emperor Kanmu was a Japanese emperor best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto), thereby inaugurating the Heian period and shaping classical Japanese court culture.
- 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: Emperor Go-Shirakawa Target entity description: Emperor Go-Shirakawa was a 12th-century Japanese emperor whose turbulent reign and subsequent cloistered rule marked a pivotal period of political conflict and transition in the late Heian era.
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A.
Emperor Shirakawa
Emperor Shirakawa was a Japanese sovereign of the late 11th and early 12th centuries who is renowned for pioneering the system of cloistered rule that shaped Heian-period politics.
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B.
Emperor Go-Toba
Emperor Go-Toba was a late 12th- to early 13th-century Japanese emperor known for his cultural patronage, especially of poetry, and for leading the failed Jōkyū War against the Kamakura shogunate.
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C.
Emperor Daigo
Emperor Daigo was a 10th-century Japanese sovereign whose relatively stable and culturally vibrant reign is often regarded as a high point of the Heian-period imperial court.
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D.
Emperor Kameyama
Emperor Kameyama was a 13th-century Japanese emperor of the Kamakura period known for his religious devotion and patronage of Zen Buddhism.
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E.
Emperor Kanmu
Emperor Kanmu was a Japanese emperor best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto), thereby inaugurating the Heian period and shaping classical Japanese court culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Emperor Go-Shirakawa Description of subject: Emperor Go-Shirakawa was a 12th-century Japanese emperor whose turbulent reign and subsequent cloistered rule marked a pivotal period of political conflict and transition in the late Heian era.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Insei
subject surface form:
Retired Emperor Sutoku
this entity surface form:
後白河天皇