Hizen Domain
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Hizen Domain was a powerful feudal domain in early modern Japan, centered in present-day Saga and Nagasaki Prefectures, that played a key role in the late Tokugawa period and the Meiji Restoration.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hizen Domain canonical | 2 |
| 肥前国佐賀藩 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5936577 — 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: Hizen Domain Context triple: [Meiji oligarchy, powerBase, Hizen Domain]
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A.
Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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B.
Shōnai Domain
Shōnai Domain was a powerful feudal han in Japan’s Edo period, located in present-day Yamagata Prefecture and ruled by the Sakai clan, noted for its staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate during the late 19th century.
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C.
Morioka Domain
Morioka Domain was a feudal han of northern Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Nanbu clan from its castle town of Morioka in present-day Iwate Prefecture.
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D.
Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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E.
Tsuwano Domain
Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
- 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: Hizen Domain Target entity description: Hizen Domain was a powerful feudal domain in early modern Japan, centered in present-day Saga and Nagasaki Prefectures, that played a key role in the late Tokugawa period and the Meiji Restoration.
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A.
Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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B.
Shōnai Domain
Shōnai Domain was a powerful feudal han in Japan’s Edo period, located in present-day Yamagata Prefecture and ruled by the Sakai clan, noted for its staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate during the late 19th century.
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C.
Morioka Domain
Morioka Domain was a feudal han of northern Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Nanbu clan from its castle town of Morioka in present-day Iwate Prefecture.
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D.
Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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E.
Tsuwano Domain
Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feudal domain of Japan
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han domain ⓘ |
| abolishedAsPartOf | haihan chiken (abolition of the han system) ⓘ |
| abolishedBy | Meiji government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| abolishedIn | 1871 ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Chōshū Domain
NERFINISHED
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Satsuma Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital |
Saga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saga Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centeredIn |
present-day Nagasaki Prefecture
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present-day Saga Prefecture ⓘ |
| contributedPersonnelTo |
Imperial Japanese Army officer corps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early Meiji bureaucracy ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
formation of the Meiji government
ⓘ
modernization of the Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| daimyoFamily | Nabeshima clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicBase |
ceramics production in Hizen region
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rice agriculture ⓘ |
| era |
Edo period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
late Tokugawa period ⓘ |
| governmentType | feudal domain under Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Hizen ware ceramics (including Arita and Imari ware)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western-style artillery production ⓘ early adoption of Western military technology ⓘ shipbuilding and modern industry in late Edo period ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kyushu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFormerProvince | Hizen Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryModernization | established Western-style training and armories in late Edo period ⓘ |
| militaryRole | provided troops to the imperial side in the Boshin War ⓘ |
| notableDaimyo |
Nabeshima Naohiro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nabeshima Naomasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Boshin War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedKeyRoleIn |
Bakumatsu politics
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Meiji Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | tōbaku (anti-shogunate) coalition in late Edo period ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ryūzōji clan holdings in Hizen Province ⓘ |
| religionPolicy | nominally supported Buddhism and Shinto under Tokugawa system ⓘ |
| ruledByClan | Nabeshima clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | major tozama domain in Kyushu ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | important for foreign trade and coastal defense in late Edo period ⓘ |
| strategicLocation | faced the East China Sea ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorAdministrativeUnit |
Nagasaki Prefecture
NERFINISHED
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Saga Prefecture 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: Hizen Domain Description of subject: Hizen Domain was a powerful feudal domain in early modern Japan, centered in present-day Saga and Nagasaki Prefectures, that played a key role in the late Tokugawa period and the Meiji Restoration.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
肥前国佐賀藩