Konoe
E449435
Konoe is the surname of a prominent Japanese aristocratic family best known for producing Fumimaro Konoe, a pre-World War II and early World War II prime minister of Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Konoe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4295978 — 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: Konoe Context triple: [Fumimaro Konoe, familyName, Konoe]
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A.
Nobusuke
Nobusuke is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Nobusuke Kishi, a former Prime Minister of Japan.
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B.
Hara Takashi
Hara Takashi was a Japanese politician who became the first commoner to serve as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Taishō period.
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C.
Minami Jirō
Minami Jirō was a Japanese army general and colonial administrator best known for serving as Governor-General of Korea during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century.
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D.
Eisaku
Eisaku is a Japanese masculine given name borne by several notable figures, including politicians and entertainers.
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E.
Inukai Tsuyoshi
Inukai Tsuyoshi was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 1930s and was assassinated during the May 15 Incident, marking a key step in the rise of militarism in Japan.
- 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: Konoe Target entity description: Konoe is the surname of a prominent Japanese aristocratic family best known for producing Fumimaro Konoe, a pre-World War II and early World War II prime minister of Japan.
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A.
Nobusuke
Nobusuke is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Nobusuke Kishi, a former Prime Minister of Japan.
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B.
Hara Takashi
Hara Takashi was a Japanese politician who became the first commoner to serve as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Taishō period.
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C.
Minami Jirō
Minami Jirō was a Japanese army general and colonial administrator best known for serving as Governor-General of Korea during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century.
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D.
Eisaku
Eisaku is a Japanese masculine given name borne by several notable figures, including politicians and entertainers.
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E.
Inukai Tsuyoshi
Inukai Tsuyoshi was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 1930s and was assassinated during the May 15 Incident, marking a key step in the rise of militarism in Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese aristocratic family
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Japanese politician ⓘ Japanese surname ⓘ human ⓘ kuge family ⓘ noble family ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Imperial Court in Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branchOf | Fujiwara Hokke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1891-10-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1945-12-16 ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Konoe family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Fumimaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyNameInJapanese | 近衛 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Fumimaro Konoe
NERFINISHED
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Konoe Hisatsugu NERFINISHED ⓘ Konoe Iehisa NERFINISHED ⓘ Konoe Motohiro NERFINISHED ⓘ Konoe Tadahiro NERFINISHED ⓘ Sakonji Konoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRomanization | Konoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Konoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldOfficeType |
kampaku
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sesshō ⓘ |
| historicalRole | court nobility of Japan ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Five Regent Houses
NERFINISHED
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Konoe family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | prince ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempting to negotiate peace with the Allies
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leading Japan into the Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ producing a prime minister of Japan ⓘ producing multiple regents of Japan ⓘ |
| numberOfTermsInOffice | 3 ⓘ |
| partOf | Fujiwara clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEra |
World War II Japan
NERFINISHED
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pre-World War II Japan ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| socialClass | kazoku ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1941 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1937 ⓘ |
| usedBy | members of the Konoe family ⓘ |
| writtenAs | 近衛 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Konoe Description of subject: Konoe is the surname of a prominent Japanese aristocratic family best known for producing Fumimaro Konoe, a pre-World War II and early World War II prime minister of Japan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.