Shō Tai
E580914
Shō Tai was the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, whose reign ended with the kingdom’s annexation by Japan in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shō Tai canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6200386 — 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: Shō Tai Context triple: [Ryukyu Kingdom, notableRuler, Shō Tai]
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A.
Dengyō Daishi
Dengyō Daishi, also known as Saichō, was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who established the influential Tendai school on Mount Hiei and helped shape the course of Japanese Buddhism.
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B.
Shōhō
Shōhō was a Japanese light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being the first Japanese carrier sunk in the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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C.
Shōhō
Shōhō was a Japanese era name (nengō) of the early Edo period, used for a brief span in the mid-17th century.
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D.
Shō Shin
Shō Shin was a powerful 15th–16th century king of the Ryukyu Kingdom known for centralizing political authority, promoting trade and diplomacy, and fostering a flourishing court culture in Okinawa.
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E.
Tennō
Tennō is the Japanese term for the Emperor of Japan, regarded as the ceremonial and symbolic monarch and, in tradition, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
- 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: Shō Tai Target entity description: Shō Tai was the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, whose reign ended with the kingdom’s annexation by Japan in the late 19th century.
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A.
Dengyō Daishi
Dengyō Daishi, also known as Saichō, was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who established the influential Tendai school on Mount Hiei and helped shape the course of Japanese Buddhism.
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B.
Shōhō
Shōhō was a Japanese light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being the first Japanese carrier sunk in the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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C.
Shōhō
Shōhō was a Japanese era name (nengō) of the early Edo period, used for a brief span in the mid-17th century.
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D.
Shō Shin
Shō Shin was a powerful 15th–16th century king of the Ryukyu Kingdom known for centralizing political authority, promoting trade and diplomacy, and fostering a flourishing court culture in Okinawa.
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E.
Tennō
Tennō is the Japanese term for the Emperor of Japan, regarded as the ceremonial and symbolic monarch and, in tradition, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ryukyuan person
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ |
| afterAbolitionOfMonarchy | became a Japanese peer ⓘ |
| annexationBy | Empire of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| annexationYear | 1879 ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Shuri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedRegion | Ryukyu Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Ryukyu Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ryukyuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Shō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Tai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Meiji period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
late Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdomAnnexedBy | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | end of Ryukyu Kingdom’s independence ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Japanese
ⓘ
Ryukyuan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchOf | Ryukyu Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Shō Tai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitleInJapan | marquis ⓘ |
| notableEvent | annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom by Japan ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Ryukyu Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shuri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Ryukyu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Shō Iku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionAssociatedWith | Okinawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1879 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1848 ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Ryukyuan religion ⓘ |
| residenceAfterAnnexation | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| royalHouse | Second Shō dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | none (monarchy abolished) ⓘ |
| title |
King of Ryukyu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ryukyu King 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: Shō Tai Description of subject: Shō Tai was the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, whose reign ended with the kingdom’s annexation by Japan in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.