Emperor Tenji
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Emperor Tenji was a 7th-century Japanese sovereign known for centralizing imperial authority, implementing the Ōmi Code, and laying groundwork for the ritsuryō state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emperor Tenji canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8605074 — 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: Emperor Tenji Context triple: [Princess Nukata, spouse, Emperor Tenji]
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A.
Emperor Nintoku
Emperor Nintoku was a semi-legendary early Japanese emperor traditionally credited with benevolent rule and associated with one of the largest keyhole-shaped burial mounds in the world.
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B.
Emperor Tenmu
Emperor Tenmu was a late 7th-century Japanese sovereign known for consolidating imperial power, promoting Buddhism, and implementing key administrative reforms that shaped the early Japanese state.
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C.
Emperor Kanmu
Emperor Kanmu was a Japanese emperor best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto), thereby inaugurating the Heian period and shaping classical Japanese court culture.
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D.
Emperor Uda
Emperor Uda was a late 9th-century Japanese emperor of the Heian period known for promoting cultural and political reforms and for being the father of Emperor Daigo.
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E.
Emperor Kōnin
Emperor Kōnin was the 49th emperor of Japan, known for restoring imperial authority after a period of political turmoil and for being the father of Emperor Kanmu, under whom the capital moved to Heian-kyō.
- 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: Emperor Tenji Target entity description: Emperor Tenji was a 7th-century Japanese sovereign known for centralizing imperial authority, implementing the Ōmi Code, and laying groundwork for the ritsuryō state.
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A.
Emperor Nintoku
Emperor Nintoku was a semi-legendary early Japanese emperor traditionally credited with benevolent rule and associated with one of the largest keyhole-shaped burial mounds in the world.
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B.
Emperor Tenmu
Emperor Tenmu was a late 7th-century Japanese sovereign known for consolidating imperial power, promoting Buddhism, and implementing key administrative reforms that shaped the early Japanese state.
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C.
Emperor Kanmu
Emperor Kanmu was a Japanese emperor best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto), thereby inaugurating the Heian period and shaping classical Japanese court culture.
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D.
Emperor Uda
Emperor Uda was a late 9th-century Japanese emperor of the Heian period known for promoting cultural and political reforms and for being the father of Emperor Daigo.
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E.
Emperor Kōnin
Emperor Kōnin was the 49th emperor of Japan, known for restoring imperial authority after a period of political turmoil and for being the father of Emperor Kanmu, under whom the capital moved to Heian-kyō.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emperor of Japan
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Japanese monarch ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthYear | 626 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Yamashina, Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalEstablishedAt | Ōtsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Emperor Kōbun
NERFINISHED
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Prince Kawashima NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Shiki NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Ōtomo NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Uno no Sarara NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Ōe NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Ōta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | ritsuryō system ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 672-01-07 ⓘ |
| deathYear | 672 ⓘ |
| deFactoRuleEnd | 668 ⓘ |
| deFactoRuleStart | 661 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Yamato dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Asuka period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraNameUsed |
Hakuchi
NERFINISHED
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Shuchō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Emperor Jomei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formalAccessionYear | 668 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| implemented | Ōmi Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Taika Reforms leadership
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administrative reforms ⓘ centralizing imperial authority ⓘ implementing the Ōmi Code ⓘ laying groundwork for the ritsuryō state ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old Japanese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Empress Kōgyoku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 天智天皇 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalName | Naka no Ōe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ōtsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Emperor of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Tenji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Empress Saimei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 672 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 661 ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
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Shinto ⓘ |
| sibling | Emperor Tenmu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ochi no Iratsume
NERFINISHED
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Soga no Ochi no Iratsume NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamato no Himeji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Emperor Kōbun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Emperor Tenji Description of subject: Emperor Tenji was a 7th-century Japanese sovereign known for centralizing imperial authority, implementing the Ōmi Code, and laying groundwork for the ritsuryō state.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.