Matsudaira clan
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The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aizu-Matsudaira clan | 1 |
| Matsudaira clan canonical | 1 |
| Matsudaira clan of Aizu | 1 |
| Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan | 1 |
| Mito branch of the Tokugawa family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6536717 — 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: Matsudaira clan Context triple: [Tokugawa Ieyasu, memberOf, Matsudaira clan]
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A.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
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B.
Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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C.
Saigō clan
The Saigō clan is a Japanese samurai family best known for producing Saigō Takamori, a key leader in the Meiji Restoration and often called the “last true samurai.”
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D.
Asano clan
The Asano clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Edo period, best known for its role in the historical incident of the Forty-seven rōnin.
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E.
Sugawara clan
The Sugawara clan was an influential Japanese aristocratic family renowned for its scholarship and literary achievements, most famously represented by the Heian-era scholar and statesman Sugawara no Michizane.
- 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: Matsudaira clan Target entity description: The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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A.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
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B.
Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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C.
Saigō clan
The Saigō clan is a Japanese samurai family best known for producing Saigō Takamori, a key leader in the Meiji Restoration and often called the “last true samurai.”
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D.
Asano clan
The Asano clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Edo period, best known for its role in the historical incident of the Forty-seven rōnin.
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E.
Sugawara clan
The Sugawara clan was an influential Japanese aristocratic family renowned for its scholarship and literary achievements, most famously represented by the Heian-era scholar and statesman Sugawara no Michizane.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
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samurai clan ⓘ |
| activeDuringPeriod |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
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Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ early Edo period ⓘ |
| ancestralHouseOf |
Tokugawa Ieyasu
NERFINISHED
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Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGovernment | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cadetBranchesHeldDomain |
Aizu Domain
NERFINISHED
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Fukui Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ Hisamatsu-Matsudaira of Kuwana NERFINISHED ⓘ Ogyu-Matsudaira of Okutono NERFINISHED ⓘ Okudaira-Matsudaira of Okazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Toda-Matsudaira of Matsumoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| founder | Matsudaira Chikauji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterNameOfMainLine | Tokugawa clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Matsudaira Chikatada
NERFINISHED
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Matsudaira Fumai NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Hirotada NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Katamori NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Kiyoyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naoharu NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naoharu (Aizu) NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naohide NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naohiro NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naokata NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naokatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naokuni NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naomasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naomichi NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naomoto NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naonori NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naosada NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naotaka NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naotane NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naoyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naoyori NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naoyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naoyuki NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Naoyuki (Echizen) NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Nobumitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Nobutsuna NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Sadanobu NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Tadaaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Tadanao NERFINISHED ⓘ Matsudaira Terunobu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originLegend | claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji line of the Minamoto clan ⓘ |
| region | Mikawa Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | ancestral line of the Tokugawa shoguns ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
daimyo
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fudai daimyo ⓘ |
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: Matsudaira clan Description of subject: The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan
this entity surface form:
Mito branch of the Tokugawa family
this entity surface form:
Aizu-Matsudaira clan
this entity surface form:
Matsudaira clan of Aizu