Temple 62: Hōjuji
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Temple 62: Hōjuji is a Buddhist temple on Japan’s island of Shikoku, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Temple 62: Hōjuji canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3413535 — 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: Temple 62: Hōjuji Context triple: [Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage, hasPart, Temple 62: Hōjuji]
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A.
Temple 60: Yokomineji
Temple 60: Yokomineji is a Buddhist temple in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage route.
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B.
Temple 61: Kōonji
Temple 61: Kōonji is a Buddhist temple on Japan’s island of Shikoku, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic 88-temple pilgrimage route associated with Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).
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C.
Temple 12: Shōsanji
Temple 12: Shōsanji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai.
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D.
Temple 21: Tairyuji
Temple 21: Tairyuji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as one of the sacred sites on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage associated with the monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).
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E.
Temple 14: Jōrakuji
Temple 14: Jōrakuji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as the fourteenth stop on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage route.
- 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: Temple 62: Hōjuji Target entity description: Temple 62: Hōjuji is a Buddhist temple on Japan’s island of Shikoku, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).
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A.
Temple 60: Yokomineji
Temple 60: Yokomineji is a Buddhist temple in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage route.
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B.
Temple 61: Kōonji
Temple 61: Kōonji is a Buddhist temple on Japan’s island of Shikoku, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic 88-temple pilgrimage route associated with Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).
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C.
Temple 12: Shōsanji
Temple 12: Shōsanji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai.
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D.
Temple 21: Tairyuji
Temple 21: Tairyuji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as one of the sacred sites on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage associated with the monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).
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E.
Temple 14: Jōrakuji
Temple 14: Jōrakuji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as the fourteenth stop on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
ⓘ
Shikoku Pilgrimage temple ⓘ Shingon Buddhism temple ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hojuji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hōju-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kukai
ⓘ
surface form:
Kōbō Daishi
Kūkai ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Kūkai ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | important site in Japanese Buddhist pilgrimage culture ⓘ |
| hasRole | sacred stop on the Shikoku pilgrimage ⓘ |
| hasType | temple on the Shikoku Henro route ⓘ |
| heritage | historic pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Japan
ⓘ
Shikoku ⓘ
surface form:
Japan’s island of Shikoku
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Shikoku
ⓘ
surface form:
Shikoku region
|
| locatedOn | Shikoku ⓘ |
| partOf |
Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage
ⓘ
sacred sites associated with Kūkai ⓘ |
| pilgrimageNumber | 62 ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| tradition |
Vajrayana
ⓘ
surface form:
Esoteric Buddhism
|
| visitedBy | Shikoku 88-temple pilgrims ⓘ |
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: Temple 62: Hōjuji Description of subject: Temple 62: Hōjuji is a Buddhist temple on Japan’s island of Shikoku, known as one of the sacred stops on the historic 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.