Hiraizumi
E471373
Hiraizumi is a historic town in Japan renowned for its Buddhist temples, gardens, and archaeological sites that reflect the culture of the Heian period and are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiraizumi canonical | 3 |
| Hiraizumi area vicinity (regional historical sphere) | 1 |
| Hiraizumi, Iwate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4715782 — 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: Hiraizumi Context triple: [Tohoku, hasCulturalSite, Hiraizumi]
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A.
Kakamigahara
Kakamigahara is a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, known for its aerospace industry, manufacturing, and proximity to Nagoya.
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B.
Urakami
Urakami is a historic district of Nagasaki, Japan, known notably as the area devastated by the atomic bombing during World War II and for its prominent Catholic heritage.
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C.
Kasuga
Kasuga was a Japanese warship active in the late 19th century, notably serving in the Boshin War as part of the modern Imperial forces.
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D.
Higashiyamato
Higashiyamato is a suburban city in western Tokyo, Japan, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to the Tama region’s parks and green spaces.
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E.
Kamakura
Kamakura is a historic coastal city in Japan renowned for its Great Buddha statue, numerous temples and shrines, and role as the political center of the Kamakura shogunate.
- 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: Hiraizumi Target entity description: Hiraizumi is a historic town in Japan renowned for its Buddhist temples, gardens, and archaeological sites that reflect the culture of the Heian period and are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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A.
Kakamigahara
Kakamigahara is a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, known for its aerospace industry, manufacturing, and proximity to Nagoya.
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B.
Urakami
Urakami is a historic district of Nagasaki, Japan, known notably as the area devastated by the atomic bombing during World War II and for its prominent Catholic heritage.
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C.
Kasuga
Kasuga was a Japanese warship active in the late 19th century, notably serving in the Boshin War as part of the modern Imperial forces.
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D.
Higashiyamato
Higashiyamato is a suburban city in western Tokyo, Japan, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to the Tama region’s parks and green spaces.
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E.
Kamakura
Kamakura is a historic coastal city in Japan renowned for its Great Buddha statue, numerous temples and shrines, and role as the political center of the Kamakura shogunate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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historic site ⓘ town ⓘ |
| associatedWithBuddhistSchool | Pure Land Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury | 12th century ⓘ |
| governingBody | Hiraizumi Town government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPropertyType | Special Historic Site (Japan) ⓘ |
| hasFamousStructure | Konjikidō of Chūson-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeType |
archaeological remains of palaces
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temple gardens ⓘ |
| hasOfficialNameOfWorldHeritageProperty | Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Hiraizumi Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSite |
Chūson-ji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kanjizaiō-in Ato NERFINISHED ⓘ Muryōkō-in Ato NERFINISHED ⓘ Mōtsū-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ Takkoku no Iwaya Bishamon-dō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodReflected | Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Buddhist temples
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Pure Land Buddhism landscape design ⓘ archaeological sites ⓘ pure land gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedBy | Kitakami River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iwate Prefecture
NERFINISHED
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Tōhoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Honshu ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Ichinoseki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi World Heritage property NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prefectureCapitalDistance | about 20 km south of Morioka ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | Buddhist Pure Land cosmology in garden design ⓘ |
| servedByRailwayLine | Tōhoku Main Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| tourismType |
cultural tourism
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religious tourism ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCategory | Cultural ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(ii)
ⓘ
(vi) ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageRegion | Asia-Pacific NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasPoliticalCenterOf | Northern Fujiwara clan 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: Hiraizumi Description of subject: Hiraizumi is a historic town in Japan renowned for its Buddhist temples, gardens, and archaeological sites that reflect the culture of the Heian period and are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hiraizumi, Iwate
subject surface form:
Ōshū, Iwate, Japan
this entity surface form:
Hiraizumi area vicinity (regional historical sphere)