Takayama Ukon
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Takayama Ukon was a 16th–17th century Japanese daimyō and Christian convert renowned for choosing exile and loss of status rather than renouncing his Catholic faith.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Takayama Ukon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7103930 — 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: Takayama Ukon Context triple: [Catholic community of Nagasaki, associatedWithPerson, Takayama Ukon]
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A.
Furuta Oribe
Furuta Oribe was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō and tea master who developed a distinctive, more decorative style of chanoyu and ceramics known as Oribe ware.
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B.
Sesshū Tōyō
Sesshū Tōyō was a preeminent Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and ink painter renowned for his powerful monochrome landscapes and profound influence on the development of Japanese ink painting.
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C.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
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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E.
Kakefu
Kakefu is a Japanese surname most notably associated with former professional baseball player Masayuki Kakefu.
- 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: Takayama Ukon Target entity description: Takayama Ukon was a 16th–17th century Japanese daimyō and Christian convert renowned for choosing exile and loss of status rather than renouncing his Catholic faith.
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A.
Furuta Oribe
Furuta Oribe was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō and tea master who developed a distinctive, more decorative style of chanoyu and ceramics known as Oribe ware.
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B.
Sesshū Tōyō
Sesshū Tōyō was a preeminent Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and ink painter renowned for his powerful monochrome landscapes and profound influence on the development of Japanese ink painting.
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C.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
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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E.
Kakefu
Kakefu is a Japanese surname most notably associated with former professional baseball player Masayuki Kakefu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic layman
ⓘ
Christian convert ⓘ Japanese daimyō ⓘ beatified person ⓘ martyr ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sengoku period ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dom Justo Takayama
NERFINISHED
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Justo Takayama Ukon NERFINISHED ⓘ Justus Takayama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Japanese Christian communities
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Jesuits in Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beatifiedBy | Pope Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Manila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| convertedBy | Jesuit missionaries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convertedTo |
Catholicism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBeatification | 2017-02-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1552 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1615-02-03 ⓘ |
| exiledBy | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exiledTo |
Manila
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Takayama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foughtIn | Sengoku period conflicts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ukon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | military commander ⓘ |
| honouredBy | Catholic Church in Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lostLandsBecauseOf | refusal to abandon Christianity ⓘ |
| lostTitleBecauseOf | anti-Christian edicts of Toyotomi Hideyoshi ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | died shortly after arrival in exile ⓘ |
| notableFor |
accepting exile and loss of status for his faith
ⓘ
leadership among Japanese Christians ⓘ refusing to renounce his Catholic faith ⓘ |
| placeOfBeatification | Osaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Takatsuki, Settsu Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Manila
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | daimyō ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Christianity ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Oda Nobunaga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Blessed ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| yearOfExile | 1614 ⓘ |
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: Takayama Ukon Description of subject: Takayama Ukon was a 16th–17th century Japanese daimyō and Christian convert renowned for choosing exile and loss of status rather than renouncing his Catholic faith.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.