Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor)
E640613
Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor) was a mid-level court official in Japan’s imperial government, responsible for assisting higher ministers with administrative, judicial, and ceremonial duties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7090959 — 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: Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor) Context triple: [Daijō-kan (Council of State of Japan), hasPosition, Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor)]
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A.
Sei Shōnagon
Sei Shōnagon was a Japanese court lady and writer best known for her witty and observant miscellany "The Pillow Book," a classic of Heian-era literature.
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B.
Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi was a renowned 9th-century Japanese waka poet celebrated for her passionate verse and legendary beauty, and is counted among the Rokkasen and Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
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C.
Nijō Tsuruko
Nijō Tsuruko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
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D.
Fujiwara no Otomuro
Fujiwara no Otomuro was a noblewoman of Japan’s powerful Fujiwara clan who became an empress consort during the early Heian period.
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E.
Fujiwara no Inshi
Fujiwara no Inshi was a noblewoman of Japan's powerful Fujiwara clan who served as a consort of Emperor Daigo and the mother of several imperial children.
- 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: Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor) Target entity description: Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor) was a mid-level court official in Japan’s imperial government, responsible for assisting higher ministers with administrative, judicial, and ceremonial duties.
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A.
Sei Shōnagon
Sei Shōnagon was a Japanese court lady and writer best known for her witty and observant miscellany "The Pillow Book," a classic of Heian-era literature.
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B.
Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi was a renowned 9th-century Japanese waka poet celebrated for her passionate verse and legendary beauty, and is counted among the Rokkasen and Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
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C.
Nijō Tsuruko
Nijō Tsuruko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
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D.
Fujiwara no Otomuro
Fujiwara no Otomuro was a noblewoman of Japan’s powerful Fujiwara clan who became an empress consort during the early Heian period.
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E.
Fujiwara no Inshi
Fujiwara no Inshi was a noblewoman of Japan's powerful Fujiwara clan who served as a consort of Emperor Daigo and the mother of several imperial children.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
court title
ⓘ
government office ⓘ imperial Japanese court rank ⓘ |
| appliesToPeriod |
Heian period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
classical Japan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
court governance
ⓘ
imperial ceremonies ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| domain | imperial court administration ⓘ |
| historicalRole | supporting central administration of the state ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kyoto ⓘ |
| partOf |
Daijō-kan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
imperial government of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInHierarchy | mid-level court official ⓘ |
| rankRelativeTo |
above lower clerical officials
ⓘ
below Chūnagon ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
administrative duties
ⓘ
assisting higher ministers ⓘ ceremonial duties ⓘ judicial duties ⓘ |
| selectionFrom | court nobility ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Chūnagon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dainagon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | Sangi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatesTo | Minor Counsellor ⓘ |
| typeOf | noble office ⓘ |
| usedIn | Ritsuryō system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystemOfTitle | kanji ⓘ |
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: Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor) Description of subject: Shōnagon (Minor Counsellor) was a mid-level court official in Japan’s imperial government, responsible for assisting higher ministers with administrative, judicial, and ceremonial duties.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.