Igo
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Igo is the Japanese name for the ancient strategic board game known internationally as Go, played with black and white stones on a grid to control territory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Igo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8482405 — 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: Igo Context triple: [Go, hasAlternativeName, Igo]
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A.
Ichigaya
Ichigaya is a central Tokyo district known for its major railway station, government and educational institutions, and proximity to the Imperial Palace area.
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B.
Takarano
Takarano is a small settlement on the atoll of Tabiteuea in the island nation of Kiribati, located in the central Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Takarano
Takarano is a village located on the atoll of Abaiang in the island nation of Kiribati.
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D.
Rijō
Rijō is the Japanese feudal-era castle in Hiroshima, historically the seat of the powerful Hiroshima Domain and a notable example of a flatland castle.
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E.
Kanemoto
Kanemoto is a Japanese surname most notably associated with former professional baseball player and manager Tomonori Kanemoto.
- 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: Igo Target entity description: Igo is the Japanese name for the ancient strategic board game known internationally as Go, played with black and white stones on a grid to control territory.
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A.
Ichigaya
Ichigaya is a central Tokyo district known for its major railway station, government and educational institutions, and proximity to the Imperial Palace area.
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B.
Takarano
Takarano is a small settlement on the atoll of Tabiteuea in the island nation of Kiribati, located in the central Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Takarano
Takarano is a village located on the atoll of Abaiang in the island nation of Kiribati.
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D.
Rijō
Rijō is the Japanese feudal-era castle in Hiroshima, historically the seat of the powerful Hiroshima Domain and a notable example of a flatland castle.
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E.
Kanemoto
Kanemoto is a Japanese surname most notably associated with former professional baseball player and manager Tomonori Kanemoto.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abstract strategy game
ⓘ
board game ⓘ |
| developedAs | Japanese tradition of Go ⓘ |
| estimatedAge | over 2500 years ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Baduk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Weiqi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCaptureMechanic | surrounding opponent stones ⓘ |
| hasChineseName | 围棋 ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Go NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGoverningBodyInJapan |
Kansai Ki-in
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nihon Ki-in NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHandicapSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 囲碁 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKomiRule | true ⓘ |
| hasKoreanName | 바둑 ⓘ |
| hasNoChanceElements | true ⓘ |
| hasPlayerColor |
black
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| hasProfessionalSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasRomaji | igo ⓘ |
| hasScoringMethod |
area scoring
ⓘ
territory scoring ⓘ |
| hasSmallerBoardSize |
13x13
ⓘ
9x9 ⓘ |
| isAncient | true ⓘ |
| isCombinatorialGame | true ⓘ |
| isDeterministicGame | true ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
high strategic complexity
ⓘ
simple rules and deep strategy ⓘ |
| isPerfectInformationGame | true ⓘ |
| isPlayedBy | two players ⓘ |
| isPlayedOnIntersections | true ⓘ |
| isPopularIn |
China
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRepresentedWithNotation | Go game record ⓘ |
| isTurnBased | true ⓘ |
| isZeroSumGame | true ⓘ |
| originatedIn | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
to control territory
ⓘ
to surround more territory than the opponent ⓘ |
| standardBoardSize | 19x19 ⓘ |
| startingPlayer | black ⓘ |
| usesBoard | grid board ⓘ |
| usesPlayingPieces |
black stones
ⓘ
white stones ⓘ |
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: Igo Description of subject: Igo is the Japanese name for the ancient strategic board game known internationally as Go, played with black and white stones on a grid to control territory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.