Early Modern Japanese
E567670
Early Modern Japanese is the historical stage of the Japanese language used roughly from the 17th to the mid-19th century, characterized by the linguistic forms found in Edo-period literature and the transition toward modern Japanese.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Early Modern Japanese canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6060862 — 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: Early Modern Japanese Context triple: [Late Middle Japanese, developedInto, Early Modern Japanese]
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A.
Late Middle Japanese
Late Middle Japanese is a historical stage of the Japanese language, spoken roughly between the 12th and 16th centuries, that marks the transition from Old Japanese to Early Modern Japanese in phonology, grammar, and vocabulary.
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B.
Edo period
The Edo period was a long era of relative peace, isolationist foreign policy, and flourishing urban culture in Japan under Tokugawa shogunate rule from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
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C.
Old Japanese
Old Japanese is the earliest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in texts from roughly the 8th century and foundational to the later development of Japanese and related languages.
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D.
Classical Japanese
Classical Japanese is the historical form of the Japanese language used in premodern literature, official documents, and legal texts, characterized by distinct grammar and vocabulary from modern Japanese.
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E.
Azuchi–Momoyama period
The Azuchi–Momoyama period was a brief late-16th-century era in Japanese history marked by the unification efforts of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, vibrant castle culture, and the transition toward the Tokugawa 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: Early Modern Japanese Target entity description: Early Modern Japanese is the historical stage of the Japanese language used roughly from the 17th to the mid-19th century, characterized by the linguistic forms found in Edo-period literature and the transition toward modern Japanese.
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A.
Late Middle Japanese
Late Middle Japanese is a historical stage of the Japanese language, spoken roughly between the 12th and 16th centuries, that marks the transition from Old Japanese to Early Modern Japanese in phonology, grammar, and vocabulary.
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B.
Edo period
The Edo period was a long era of relative peace, isolationist foreign policy, and flourishing urban culture in Japan under Tokugawa shogunate rule from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
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C.
Old Japanese
Old Japanese is the earliest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in texts from roughly the 8th century and foundational to the later development of Japanese and related languages.
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D.
Classical Japanese
Classical Japanese is the historical form of the Japanese language used in premodern literature, official documents, and legal texts, characterized by distinct grammar and vocabulary from modern Japanese.
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E.
Azuchi–Momoyama period
The Azuchi–Momoyama period was a brief late-16th-century era in Japanese history marked by the unification efforts of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, vibrant castle culture, and the transition toward the Tokugawa shogunate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical stage of the Japanese language
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language variety ⓘ |
| approximateEnd | mid-19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithCapital | Edo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
changes in auxiliary verb system
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development of honorific and polite forms toward modern usage ⓘ early borrowing of Western loanwords ⓘ increasing use of colloquial forms in writing ⓘ lexical expansion through Sino-Japanese vocabulary ⓘ linguistic forms found in Edo-period literature ⓘ morphological simplification compared to Classical Japanese ⓘ phonological changes from Middle Japanese ⓘ shift in verb conjugation patterns ⓘ transition toward Modern Japanese grammar ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Edo-period poetry
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Edo-period prose ⓘ bunraku scripts ⓘ kabuki plays ⓘ kokkeibon (comic fiction) ⓘ rangaku texts ⓘ sharebon (pleasure-quarter fiction) ⓘ ukiyo-zōshi literature ⓘ yomihon (didactic fiction) ⓘ |
| follows | Late Middle Japanese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
distinction between literary and colloquial styles
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gradual replacement of classical particles by modern equivalents ⓘ phonetic changes leading toward loss of some historical distinctions ⓘ use of classical auxiliary -beshi in early stages ⓘ use of classical auxiliary -keri ⓘ |
| hasStageIn | history of the Japanese language ⓘ |
| hasTransitionTo | standard Japanese of the Meiji period ⓘ |
| influenced | Modern Standard Japanese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Classical Japanese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Japonic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orthographyBasedOn | Classical Japanese written norms ⓘ |
| precedes | Modern Japanese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenVarietiesInclude |
Edo dialect
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Kyoto dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Osaka dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedInField | Japanese historical linguistics ⓘ |
| timeSpanApproximate | c. 1600–1868 ⓘ |
| usedFromCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedUntilCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
hiragana
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kana-based orthography ⓘ kanji ⓘ katakana ⓘ |
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: Early Modern Japanese Description of subject: Early Modern Japanese is the historical stage of the Japanese language used roughly from the 17th to the mid-19th century, characterized by the linguistic forms found in Edo-period literature and the transition toward modern Japanese.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.