Nagato Domain
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Nagato Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu ruled by the Mōri clan, historically significant for its leading role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nagato Domain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6656604 — 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: Nagato Domain Context triple: [Chōshū Domain, alsoKnownAs, Nagato Domain]
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A.
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.
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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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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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D.
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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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.
- 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: Nagato Domain Target entity description: Nagato Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu ruled by the Mōri clan, historically significant for its leading role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
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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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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feudal domain
ⓘ
han ⓘ |
| abolishedAsDomainSystem | 1871 ⓘ |
| abolishedBy | Meiji government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Satsuma Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Chōshū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Hagi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castleTown | Hagi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| daimyoClan | Mōri clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domainLordsTitle | daimyō ⓘ |
| domainSystem | han system ⓘ |
| economicBase | agricultural land tax ⓘ |
| era | Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | bakuhan system ⓘ |
| hasCastle | Hagi Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Chōshū region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | major tozama domain opposing the Tokugawa shogunate in the late Edo period ⓘ |
| importantEvent | Meiji Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Boshin War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nagato Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Honshu ⓘ |
| mergedWith | Suō Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryForces | samurai retainers ⓘ |
| modernLocation | Yamaguchi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableClanMember | Mōri Takachika NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEducationalInstitution | Shōka Sonjuku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableReformMovement | sonnō jōi movement ⓘ |
| notableSamurai |
Kido Takayoshi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Takasugi Shinsaku NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoshida Shōin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policy | modernization of military in late Edo period ⓘ |
| politicalAlignmentLateEdo | anti-Tokugawa ⓘ |
| predecessor | Mōri clan territories in Nagato Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Chūgoku region ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Shinto ⓘ |
| reorganizedAs | Yamaguchi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | leading role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration ⓘ |
| ruledBy | Mōri clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereignDuringEdo | Tokugawa shōgun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | tozama domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Chōshū Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfSubdivision | Edo-period domain ⓘ |
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: Nagato Domain Description of subject: Nagato Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu ruled by the Mōri clan, historically significant for its leading role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.