Shōnai Domain
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Shōnai Domain was a powerful feudal han in Japan’s Edo period, located in present-day Yamagata Prefecture and ruled by the Sakai clan, noted for its staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate during the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shōnai Domain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3754579 — 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: Shōnai Domain Context triple: [Boshin War, belligerent, Shōnai Domain]
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Tsuwano Domain
Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
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Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Aizu Domain
Aizu Domain was a powerful feudal domain in Japan’s Edo period, renowned for its samurai culture, loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate, and pivotal role in the late-19th-century conflicts that led to the Meiji Restoration.
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E.
Tosa Domain
Tosa Domain was a feudal han in Shikoku during Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Yamauchi clan and later known for producing influential Meiji-era political leaders.
- 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: Shōnai Domain Target entity description: Shōnai Domain was a powerful feudal han in Japan’s Edo period, located in present-day Yamagata Prefecture and ruled by the Sakai clan, noted for its staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate during the late 19th century.
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A.
Tsuwano Domain
Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
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B.
Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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C.
Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Aizu Domain
Aizu Domain was a powerful feudal domain in Japan’s Edo period, renowned for its samurai culture, loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate, and pivotal role in the late-19th-century conflicts that led to the Meiji Restoration.
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E.
Tosa Domain
Tosa Domain was a feudal han in Shikoku during Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Yamauchi clan and later known for producing influential Meiji-era political leaders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feudal domain
ⓘ
han ⓘ |
| abolishedInReform | Abolition of the han system ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Tsuruoka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance | Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| capital | Tsuruoka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalCastle | Tsuruoka Castle ⓘ |
| castleTown | Tsuruoka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classification | fudai domain ⓘ |
| conflict | Boshin War ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| daimyōFamily |
Yanagisawa clan
ⓘ
surface form:
Sakai clan
|
| economicBase | rice cultivation ⓘ |
| endPeriod | Meiji Restoration ⓘ |
| era | Edo period ⓘ |
| geographicalCategory | History of Yamagata Prefecture ⓘ |
| governedBy | daimyō ⓘ |
| governingSystem | bakuhan system ⓘ |
| governmentType | feudal domain under shogunate ⓘ |
| historicalCategory |
Tosa Domain
ⓘ
surface form:
Domains of Japan
Edo-period politics ⓘ |
| historicalRegionName | Shōnai region ONNED1 ⓘ |
| joinedAlliance | Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei ⓘ |
| kokudaka | about 170000 koku ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dewa Province
ⓘ
present-day Yamagata Prefecture ⓘ |
| mainTerritoryType | coastal plain around the Shōnai region ⓘ |
| militaryRole | provided troops to the shogunate ⓘ |
| notableDaimyō |
Sakai Tadakatsu
ⓘ
Sakai Tadamichi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation on the shogunate side in the Boshin War
ⓘ
staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate in the late Edo period ⓘ |
| opposedFactionInBoshinWar | Satchō Alliance ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-Tokugawa ⓘ |
| predecessorTerritory | lands of the Mogami clan in Dewa ⓘ |
| region | Tohoku ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Shinto ⓘ |
| rulingClan |
Yanagisawa clan
ⓘ
surface form:
Sakai clan
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| startPeriod | early Edo period ⓘ |
| statusAfterAbolition | part of Yamagata Prefecture ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| successorAdministrativeUnit |
Tsuruoka Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yamagata Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shōnai Domain Description of subject: Shōnai Domain was a powerful feudal han in Japan’s Edo period, located in present-day Yamagata Prefecture and ruled by the Sakai clan, noted for its staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate during the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
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