Ukita clan
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The Ukita clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, known for its control of Bizen Province and its prominent role as a major daimyo house under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ukita clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6946986 — 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: Ukita clan Context triple: [Toyotomi clan, alliedWith, Ukita clan]
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A.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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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.
Mōri clan
The Mōri clan was a powerful samurai family that rose to prominence as daimyō in western Honshu during Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, playing a major role in regional politics and military affairs.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Ukita clan Target entity description: The Ukita clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, known for its control of Bizen Province and its prominent role as a major daimyo house under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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A.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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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.
Mōri clan
The Mōri clan was a powerful samurai family that rose to prominence as daimyō in western Honshu during Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, playing a major role in regional politics and military affairs.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
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daimyo ⓘ samurai ⓘ samurai clan ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
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Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ early Edo period ⓘ |
| allegiance | Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Toyotomi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCastle | Okayama Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castleTown | Okayama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanderAt | Battle of Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controlledDomain | Okayama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| daimyoHouseUnder | Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dispossessedBy | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| formerAllegiance |
Oda clan
NERFINISHED
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Toyotomi administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedAs | daimyo ⓘ |
| governmentType | feudal domain leadership ⓘ |
| historicalCategory |
Edo period clan
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Sengoku daimyo clan ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | powerful western Japan daimyo house ⓘ |
| homeProvince | Bizen Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeRegion | Chūgoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| leaderOf |
Ukita clan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ukita clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lostDomainAfter | Battle of Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lostPowerInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| mainCastle | Okayama Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRole | sengoku daimyo ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Ukita Hideie
NERFINISHED
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Ukita Naoie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Ukita Hideie
NERFINISHED
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Ukita Naoie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedInBattle | Battle of Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | tozama daimyo ⓘ |
| powerBase | Bizen Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence | western Honshu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roseToPowerIn | 16th century ⓘ |
| ruledProvince | Bizen Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sideInBattleOfSekigahara | Western Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | buke ⓘ |
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: Ukita clan Description of subject: The Ukita clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, known for its control of Bizen Province and its prominent role as a major daimyo house under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.