Sōeki
E625551
Sōeki is the given name of Sen no Rikyū, the influential 16th-century Japanese tea master who profoundly shaped the wabi-cha style of the Japanese tea ceremony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sōeki canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6864522 — 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: Sōeki Context triple: [Sen no Rikyū, givenName, Sōeki]
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A.
Gotō Shinpei
Gotō Shinpei was a prominent Japanese statesman and colonial administrator known for modernizing Taiwan’s infrastructure and governance during early Japanese rule and later serving in top government posts in Japan.
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B.
Beppu Shinsuke
Beppu Shinsuke was a samurai and military leader who played a prominent role as one of the key figures in Saigō Takamori’s forces during the Satsuma Rebellion against the Meiji government in 1877.
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C.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
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D.
Komura Jutarō
Komura Jutarō was a prominent Japanese diplomat and statesman of the Meiji era who played a key role in shaping Japan’s foreign policy and international standing in the early 20th century.
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E.
Miyazawa
Miyazawa is a Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, literature, and the arts.
- 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: Sōeki Target entity description: Sōeki is the given name of Sen no Rikyū, the influential 16th-century Japanese tea master who profoundly shaped the wabi-cha style of the Japanese tea ceremony.
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A.
Gotō Shinpei
Gotō Shinpei was a prominent Japanese statesman and colonial administrator known for modernizing Taiwan’s infrastructure and governance during early Japanese rule and later serving in top government posts in Japan.
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B.
Beppu Shinsuke
Beppu Shinsuke was a samurai and military leader who played a prominent role as one of the key figures in Saigō Takamori’s forces during the Satsuma Rebellion against the Meiji government in 1877.
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C.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
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D.
Komura Jutarō
Komura Jutarō was a prominent Japanese diplomat and statesman of the Meiji era who played a key role in shaping Japan’s foreign policy and international standing in the early 20th century.
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E.
Miyazawa
Miyazawa is a Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, literature, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ tea name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Japanese tea ceremony
NERFINISHED
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chanoyu ⓘ wabi-cha ⓘ |
| bearer | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bearerAlternativeNameOf | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bearerBirthName | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bearerEra | 16th century ⓘ |
| bearerInfluenceOn |
aesthetics of Japanese tea ceremony
ⓘ
wabi-cha style NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bearerNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| bearerOccupation | tea master ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Japanese culture ⓘ |
| fieldOfNotabilityOfBearer |
aesthetics
ⓘ
tea ceremony ⓘ |
| honorificContext | tea ceremony lineage names ⓘ |
| isArtNameOf | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isGivenNameOf | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTeaNameOf | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameType | male given name ⓘ |
| region | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script | Japanese characters ⓘ |
| usedInContext | Japanese tea ceremony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInHistoricalPeriod | Azuchi–Momoyama period 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: Sōeki Description of subject: Sōeki is the given name of Sen no Rikyū, the influential 16th-century Japanese tea master who profoundly shaped the wabi-cha style of the Japanese tea ceremony.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.