Date clan
E770821
The Date clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Tōhoku region, best known for producing the famed warlord Date Masamune and playing a significant role in the Sengoku and early Edo periods.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Date clan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9007840 — 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: Date clan Context triple: [Date Masamune, clan, Date clan]
-
A.
Klanen
Klanen is the main organized supporters’ group of Norwegian football club Vålerenga, known for its passionate fan culture and vocal backing at matches.
-
B.
Dir clans
Dir clans are a major Somali clan-family comprising numerous sub-clans spread across Somalia and the Horn of Africa, historically influential in regional politics, trade, and pastoral life.
-
C.
Clans
Clans is a small rural commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, known for its traditional Provençal character and mountainous surroundings.
-
D.
Deer clan
The Deer clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship divisions, associated with specific ancestral roles, responsibilities, and identity within the tribe.
-
E.
Timung clan
The Timung clan is a lineage group within the Karbi community of Northeast India, recognized as one of its traditional clans.
- 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: Date clan Target entity description: The Date clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Tōhoku region, best known for producing the famed warlord Date Masamune and playing a significant role in the Sengoku and early Edo periods.
-
A.
Klanen
Klanen is the main organized supporters’ group of Norwegian football club Vålerenga, known for its passionate fan culture and vocal backing at matches.
-
B.
Dir clans
Dir clans are a major Somali clan-family comprising numerous sub-clans spread across Somalia and the Horn of Africa, historically influential in regional politics, trade, and pastoral life.
-
C.
Clans
Clans is a small rural commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, known for its traditional Provençal character and mountainous surroundings.
-
D.
Deer clan
The Deer clan is one of the traditional Ho-Chunk social and kinship divisions, associated with specific ancestral roles, responsibilities, and identity within the tribe.
-
E.
Timung clan
The Timung clan is a lineage group within the Karbi community of Northeast India, recognized as one of its traditional clans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
ⓘ
samurai clan ⓘ |
| allegiance | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clanCrest | bamboo leaves and sparrows (take ni suzume mon) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContribution | development of Sendai as a castle town ⓘ |
| daimyoDomain | Sendai Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicBase | rice agriculture in Mutsu and Dewa ⓘ |
| endOfRule | Meiji Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| famousLeader | Date Masamune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingPeriod | Kamakura period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingSystem | feudal domain administration ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
power in the Tōhoku region
ⓘ
producing Date Masamune ⓘ role in the Sengoku period ⓘ role in the early Edo period ⓘ |
| laterAlignedWith | Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCastle | Sendai Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCity | Sendai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MasamuneRole | founder of Sendai Domain ⓘ |
| MasamuneTitle | One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryActivity | regional wars in northern Japan ⓘ |
| modernStatus | former samurai family ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Date Chikamune
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Date Harumune NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Masamune NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Munemura NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Narimune NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Narimura NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Nariyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Nariyuki NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Shigemura NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Tadamune NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Terumune NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Tsunamune NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Yoshikuni NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Yoshikuni (2nd)? NERFINISHED ⓘ Date Yoshimura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originProvince | Mutsu Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | tozama daimyo ⓘ |
| region | Tōhoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Buddhism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shinto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedSide | Toyotomi Hideyoshi (late Sengoku) 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: Date clan Description of subject: The Date clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Tōhoku region, best known for producing the famed warlord Date Masamune and playing a significant role in the Sengoku and early Edo periods.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.