Musashi Province
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Musashi Province was an old Japanese province that once encompassed much of what is now Tokyo and parts of Saitama and Kanagawa Prefectures, serving as an important political and cultural center in feudal Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Musashi Province canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2579914 — 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: Musashi Province Context triple: [Musashi no misasagi, namedAfter, Musashi Province]
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A.
Yamato Province
Yamato Province was an ancient region in Japan that served as the political and cultural heartland of early Japanese civilization and the imperial court.
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B.
Kaga Province
Kaga Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for its wealth, powerful feudal domain, and rich cultural traditions.
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C.
Shinano Province
Shinano Province was an old administrative region of Japan, roughly corresponding to modern Nagano Prefecture, known for its mountainous terrain and historical significance.
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D.
Nagato Province
Nagato Province was a former administrative region of Japan located in what is now western Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
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E.
Kii Province
Kii Province was a historical region of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula, corresponding largely to present-day Wakayama Prefecture and parts of Mie Prefecture.
- 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: Musashi Province Target entity description: Musashi Province was an old Japanese province that once encompassed much of what is now Tokyo and parts of Saitama and Kanagawa Prefectures, serving as an important political and cultural center in feudal Japan.
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A.
Yamato Province
Yamato Province was an ancient region in Japan that served as the political and cultural heartland of early Japanese civilization and the imperial court.
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B.
Kaga Province
Kaga Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for its wealth, powerful feudal domain, and rich cultural traditions.
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C.
Shinano Province
Shinano Province was an old administrative region of Japan, roughly corresponding to modern Nagano Prefecture, known for its mountainous terrain and historical significance.
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D.
Nagato Province
Nagato Province was a former administrative region of Japan located in what is now western Yamaguchi Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
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E.
Kii Province
Kii Province was a historical region of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula, corresponding largely to present-day Wakayama Prefecture and parts of Mie Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historical Japanese province ⓘ |
| abolishedInReform | Meiji Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borders |
Kai Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kazusa Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Kōzuke Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Sagami Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Shimōsa Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Shinano Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Edo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Edo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hachiōji NERFINISHED ⓘ Kawagoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Kawaguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kawasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| correspondsToModernArea |
Kanagawa Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saitama Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo Metropolis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| correspondsToModernAreaPartially |
Kanagawa Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saitama Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo Metropolis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Kantō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerCapital | Fuchū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Kantō kubō
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadIchinomiya |
Hikawa Shrine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ōmiya Hikawa Shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadPortCity | Edo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadProvincialTemple | Musashi Kokubun-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Edo period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Kamakura period NERFINISHED ⓘ Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ Nara period NERFINISHED ⓘ Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | center of early modern Japan due to Edo ⓘ |
| importantCenterFor |
commerce
ⓘ
culture ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Honshu
ⓘ
Kantō region ⓘ |
| majorRoad |
Kōshū Kaidō
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nakasendō NERFINISHED ⓘ Ōshū Kaidō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameWrittenWithKanji | 武蔵国 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oldProvinceCode | Musashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | prefecture system of Japan ⓘ |
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: Musashi Province Description of subject: Musashi Province was an old Japanese province that once encompassed much of what is now Tokyo and parts of Saitama and Kanagawa Prefectures, serving as an important political and cultural center in feudal Japan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.