Prince Shōtoku
E491288
Prince Shōtoku was a semi-legendary Japanese regent and statesman of the Asuka period, renowned for promoting Buddhism and laying foundations for Japan’s early centralized government.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince Shōtoku canonical | 4 |
| Prince Shotoku | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5059781 — 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: Prince Shōtoku Context triple: [Gangō-ji, associatedWith, Prince Shōtoku]
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A.
Emperor Tenmu
Emperor Tenmu was a late 7th-century Japanese sovereign known for consolidating imperial power, promoting Buddhism, and implementing key administrative reforms that shaped the early Japanese state.
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B.
Emperor Nintoku
Emperor Nintoku was a semi-legendary early Japanese emperor traditionally credited with benevolent rule and associated with one of the largest keyhole-shaped burial mounds in the world.
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C.
Emperor Shōmu
Emperor Shōmu was an 8th-century Japanese ruler renowned for promoting Buddhism as a state religion and commissioning the Great Buddha and Tōdai-ji temple in Nara.
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D.
Duke Kujō Michitaka
Duke Kujō Michitaka was a Japanese court noble of the influential Kujō family and the father of Empress Teimei, consort of Emperor Taishō.
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E.
Emperor Monmu
Emperor Monmu was an early 8th-century Japanese sovereign whose reign helped consolidate the political and religious foundations of the emerging Nara state.
- 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: Prince Shōtoku Target entity description: Prince Shōtoku was a semi-legendary Japanese regent and statesman of the Asuka period, renowned for promoting Buddhism and laying foundations for Japan’s early centralized government.
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A.
Emperor Tenmu
Emperor Tenmu was a late 7th-century Japanese sovereign known for consolidating imperial power, promoting Buddhism, and implementing key administrative reforms that shaped the early Japanese state.
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B.
Emperor Nintoku
Emperor Nintoku was a semi-legendary early Japanese emperor traditionally credited with benevolent rule and associated with one of the largest keyhole-shaped burial mounds in the world.
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C.
Emperor Shōmu
Emperor Shōmu was an 8th-century Japanese ruler renowned for promoting Buddhism as a state religion and commissioning the Great Buddha and Tōdai-ji temple in Nara.
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D.
Duke Kujō Michitaka
Duke Kujō Michitaka was a Japanese court noble of the influential Kujō family and the father of Empress Teimei, consort of Emperor Taishō.
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E.
Emperor Monmu
Emperor Monmu was an early 8th-century Japanese sovereign whose reign helped consolidate the political and religious foundations of the emerging Nara state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Asuka-period person
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Buddhist ⓘ Japanese prince ⓘ regent ⓘ semi-legendary figure ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Prince Umayado
NERFINISHED
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Shōtoku Taishi NERFINISHED ⓘ Umayado no Ōji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hōryū-ji
NERFINISHED
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Shitennō-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf | Seventeen-article constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 574 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| creditedWithFounding |
Hōryū-ji
NERFINISHED
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Shitennō-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalDepiction | appears on Japanese banknotes ⓘ |
| deathDate | 622 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Yamato dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Asuka period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Emperor Yōmei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Umayado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | introduction of Buddhism to Japan ⓘ |
| house | Yamato dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementedReform |
Seventeen-article constitution
NERFINISHED
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cap and rank system ⓘ twelve-level cap and rank system ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhist philosophy
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Chinese political thought ⓘ Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adoption of Chinese-style institutions
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early centralization of Japanese government ⓘ promotion of Buddhism in Japan ⓘ |
| legacy |
considered a cultural hero in Japan
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venerated as a Buddhist saint in Japan ⓘ |
| mother | Empress Anahobe no Hashihito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Commentary on the Lotus Sutra
NERFINISHED
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Commentary on the Vimalakīrti Sutra NERFINISHED ⓘ Commentary on the Śrīmālādevī Sūtra NERFINISHED ⓘ Seventeen-article constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronOf | Hōryū-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Crown Prince of Japan
NERFINISHED
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regent of Japan ⓘ |
| promoted | Buddhist temples ⓘ |
| regentFor | Empress Suiko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| sentDiplomaticMissionTo | Sui dynasty China 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: Prince Shōtoku Description of subject: Prince Shōtoku was a semi-legendary Japanese regent and statesman of the Asuka period, renowned for promoting Buddhism and laying foundations for Japan’s early centralized government.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prince Shotoku
this entity surface form:
Prince Shotoku
this entity surface form:
Prince Shotoku