Shirakawa-tennō
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Shirakawa-tennō was the 72nd emperor of Japan, known for initiating the insei (cloistered rule) system by abdicating the throne yet continuing to wield significant political power from behind the scenes in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shirakawa-tennō canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4419517 — 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: Shirakawa-tennō Context triple: [Emperor Shirakawa, regnalName, Shirakawa-tennō]
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A.
Tadaoka
Tadaoka is a small coastal town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for being one of the smallest municipalities in the country by area.
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B.
Kizoku-in
Kizoku-in was the upper house of Japan’s prewar Imperial Diet, composed mainly of nobility and imperial appointees.
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C.
Shoin Jinja
Shoin Jinja is a Shinto shrine in Tokyo dedicated to the influential late-Edo period thinker and educator Yoshida Shōin.
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D.
Naminoue Shrine
Naminoue Shrine is a prominent Shinto shrine in Naha, Okinawa, revered as a guardian of seafarers and known for its dramatic cliffside location overlooking the sea.
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E.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
- 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: Shirakawa-tennō Target entity description: Shirakawa-tennō was the 72nd emperor of Japan, known for initiating the insei (cloistered rule) system by abdicating the throne yet continuing to wield significant political power from behind the scenes in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
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A.
Tadaoka
Tadaoka is a small coastal town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for being one of the smallest municipalities in the country by area.
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B.
Kizoku-in
Kizoku-in was the upper house of Japan’s prewar Imperial Diet, composed mainly of nobility and imperial appointees.
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C.
Shoin Jinja
Shoin Jinja is a Shinto shrine in Tokyo dedicated to the influential late-Edo period thinker and educator Yoshida Shōin.
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D.
Naminoue Shrine
Naminoue Shrine is a prominent Shinto shrine in Naha, Okinawa, revered as a guardian of seafarers and known for its dramatic cliffside location overlooking the sea.
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E.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emperor of Japan
ⓘ
Japanese monarch ⓘ human ⓘ |
| abdicationYear | 1087 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1053-07-07 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Heian-kyō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Shirakawa no misasagi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Goshirakawa-tennō
NERFINISHED
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Horikawa-tennō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continuedToExercisePowerUntil | 1129 ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1129-07-24 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Heian-kyō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Yamato dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraName |
Chōji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chōshō NERFINISHED ⓘ Daiji NERFINISHED ⓘ Eichō NERFINISHED ⓘ Eihō NERFINISHED ⓘ Eiji NERFINISHED ⓘ Eikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ Gen’ei NERFINISHED ⓘ Hōan NERFINISHED ⓘ Hōen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jōhō NERFINISHED ⓘ Jōryaku NERFINISHED ⓘ Jōtoku NERFINISHED ⓘ Kahō NERFINISHED ⓘ Kajō NERFINISHED ⓘ Kanji ⓘ Kōwa NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenji NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennin NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenshō NERFINISHED ⓘ Ten’ei NERFINISHED ⓘ Ōtoku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Go-Sanjō-tennō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Sadahito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governanceStyle | cloistered rule ⓘ |
| house | Imperial House of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Classical Japanese ⓘ |
| mother | Fujiwara no Akiko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exercising political power after abdication
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initiating the insei (cloistered rule) system ⓘ |
| period | late Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 72nd Emperor of Japan ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Shirakawa-tennō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Go-Sanjō-tennō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regnalName | Shirakawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1087 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1073 ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| spouse | Fujiwara no Kenshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleName | Shirakawa-in NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Horikawa-tennō 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: Shirakawa-tennō Description of subject: Shirakawa-tennō was the 72nd emperor of Japan, known for initiating the insei (cloistered rule) system by abdicating the throne yet continuing to wield significant political power from behind the scenes in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
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