Maeda Toshimasa
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Maeda Toshimasa was a Japanese samurai lord of the Sengoku period best known as the progenitor of the powerful Maeda clan that later ruled the Kaga Domain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maeda Toshimasa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7416257 — 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: Maeda Toshimasa Context triple: [Maeda clan, founder, Maeda Toshimasa]
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A.
Tanaka Hidemitsu
Tanaka Hidemitsu was a Japanese novelist and essayist known for his introspective, often autobiographical works that explored postwar Japanese society and personal alienation.
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B.
Hosokawa Tadaoki
Hosokawa Tadaoki was a Sengoku- and early Edo-period Japanese daimyō known for his military service under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and for his deep involvement in the tea ceremony culture.
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C.
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu was the short-lived son and heir of Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the late Sengoku period.
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D.
Toyotomi Kunimatsu
Toyotomi Kunimatsu was a young samurai of the late Sengoku and early Edo periods in Japan, remembered primarily as a grandson of Toyotomi Hideyoshi whose execution symbolized the final destruction of the Toyotomi clan by the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
- 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: Maeda Toshimasa Target entity description: Maeda Toshimasa was a Japanese samurai lord of the Sengoku period best known as the progenitor of the powerful Maeda clan that later ruled the Kaga Domain.
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A.
Tanaka Hidemitsu
Tanaka Hidemitsu was a Japanese novelist and essayist known for his introspective, often autobiographical works that explored postwar Japanese society and personal alienation.
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B.
Hosokawa Tadaoki
Hosokawa Tadaoki was a Sengoku- and early Edo-period Japanese daimyō known for his military service under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and for his deep involvement in the tea ceremony culture.
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C.
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu was the short-lived son and heir of Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the late Sengoku period.
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D.
Toyotomi Kunimatsu
Toyotomi Kunimatsu was a young samurai of the late Sengoku and early Edo periods in Japan, remembered primarily as a grandson of Toyotomi Hideyoshi whose execution symbolized the final destruction of the Toyotomi clan by the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese historical figure
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daimyo ⓘ samurai ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kaga Domain
NERFINISHED
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Maeda family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clan | Maeda clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| era | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Maeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Toshimasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDescendant | Maeda Toshiie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Japanese Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Maeda clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lord ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | lord ⓘ |
| notableAs | progenitor of the Maeda clan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being ancestor of the lords of Kaga Domain
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establishing the foundations of the Maeda clan power ⓘ |
| occupation |
samurai
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warlord ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Kaga Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | founding figure of a powerful tozama daimyo house ⓘ |
| socialClass | bushi ⓘ |
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: Maeda Toshimasa Description of subject: Maeda Toshimasa was a Japanese samurai lord of the Sengoku period best known as the progenitor of the powerful Maeda clan that later ruled the Kaga Domain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.