Shinto
E4281
Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan centered on the worship of kami (spirits or deities) and the veneration of nature and ancestors.
All labels observed (23)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T51516 — 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: Shinto Context triple: [Naruhito, religion, Shinto]
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A.
Hinduism
Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest major religions, originating in the Indian subcontinent and characterized by diverse philosophies, rituals, and traditions centered on concepts like dharma, karma, and moksha.
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B.
Kimigayo
Kimigayo is the national anthem of Japan, known for its extremely short length and lyrics derived from a Heian-period waka poem expressing wishes for the emperor’s enduring reign.
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C.
Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
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D.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition that explores the hidden, spiritual dimensions of God, the universe, and the Torah through symbolic and esoteric teachings.
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E.
Ancient Greek religion
Ancient Greek religion was the polytheistic belief system of ancient Greece, centered on a pantheon of gods like Zeus and Athena, mythological heroes, and ritual practices that shaped Greek culture, art, and philosophy.
- 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: Shinto Target entity description: Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan centered on the worship of kami (spirits or deities) and the veneration of nature and ancestors.
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A.
Hinduism
Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest major religions, originating in the Indian subcontinent and characterized by diverse philosophies, rituals, and traditions centered on concepts like dharma, karma, and moksha.
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B.
Kimigayo
Kimigayo is the national anthem of Japan, known for its extremely short length and lyrics derived from a Heian-period waka poem expressing wishes for the emperor’s enduring reign.
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C.
Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
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D.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition that explores the hidden, spiritual dimensions of God, the universe, and the Torah through symbolic and esoteric teachings.
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E.
Ancient Greek religion
Ancient Greek religion was the polytheistic belief system of ancient Greece, centered on a pantheon of gods like Zeus and Athena, mythological heroes, and ritual practices that shaped Greek culture, art, and philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indigenous religion
ⓘ
polytheistic religion ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| associatedWithSymbol |
mirror
ⓘ
sakaki tree ⓘ shimenawa ⓘ torii gate ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Buddhism
ⓘ
surface form:
Buddhism in Japan
|
| coreConcept |
ancestor veneration
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kami ⓘ nature veneration ⓘ purity ⓘ ritual ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| follows | kami worship ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Shinto
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Folk Shinto
Sect Shinto ⓘ Shinto self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Shrine Shinto
State Shinto ⓘ |
| hasClergy |
Shinto priest
ⓘ
miko ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
kegare
ⓘ
magokoro ⓘ makoto ⓘ musubi ⓘ yaoyorozu no kami ⓘ |
| hasDeity |
Amaterasu
ⓘ
Hachiman ⓘ Inari Ōkami ⓘ Susanoo ⓘ Tenjin ⓘ Tsukuyomi ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalSource |
Kojiki
ⓘ
Kojiki ⓘ
surface form:
Nihon Shoki
|
| hasPlaceOfWorship | Shinto shrine ⓘ |
| hasRitualObject |
ema
ⓘ
gohei ⓘ ofuda ⓘ omamori ⓘ |
| hasSacredText | none (no single canonical scripture) ⓘ |
| historicalPractice | shinbutsu shūgō ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese culture
ⓘ
Japanese festivals ⓘ Japanese imperial rituals ⓘ |
| languageOfRitual | Japanese ⓘ |
| majorRitual |
harae
ⓘ
matsuri ⓘ misogi ⓘ offerings to kami ⓘ |
| wasRegulatedBy |
Meiji era
ⓘ
surface form:
Meiji government
|
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: Shinto Description of subject: Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan centered on the worship of kami (spirits or deities) and the veneration of nature and ancestors.
Referenced by (748)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shintoism
this entity surface form:
Shintoism
this entity surface form:
folk Shinto
this entity surface form:
Shinto (historical context)
this entity surface form:
Shinto (via Taga Taisha)