Higashi Hongan-ji Temple
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Higashi Hongan-ji Temple is a major Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, known for its vast wooden halls and role as the head temple of the Shinshū Ōtani-ha sect.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Higashi Hongan-ji | 1 |
| Higashi Hongan-ji Temple canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8967644 — 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: Higashi Hongan-ji Temple Context triple: [Kintetsu Kyoto Station, nearbyLandmark, Higashi Hongan-ji Temple]
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To-ji Temple
To-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its five-story pagoda and its deep association with the monk Kobo Daishi and Shingon Buddhism.
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Sengaku-ji Temple
Sengaku-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo best known as the burial site of the Forty-seven Ronin, a famous group of samurai celebrated in Japanese history and culture.
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C.
Tenryu-ji Temple
Tenryu-ji Temple is a major Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic landscape garden and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
Seiganto-ji Temple
Seiganto-ji Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, famed for its picturesque pagoda standing before the dramatic Nachi Falls.
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E.
Shokoku-ji Temple
Shokoku-ji Temple is a major Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned as one of the city's historically significant "Five Great Zen Temples."
- 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: Higashi Hongan-ji Temple Target entity description: Higashi Hongan-ji Temple is a major Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, known for its vast wooden halls and role as the head temple of the Shinshū Ōtani-ha sect.
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A.
To-ji Temple
To-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its five-story pagoda and its deep association with the monk Kobo Daishi and Shingon Buddhism.
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B.
Sengaku-ji Temple
Sengaku-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo best known as the burial site of the Forty-seven Ronin, a famous group of samurai celebrated in Japanese history and culture.
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C.
Tenryu-ji Temple
Tenryu-ji Temple is a major Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic landscape garden and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
Seiganto-ji Temple
Seiganto-ji Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, famed for its picturesque pagoda standing before the dramatic Nachi Falls.
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E.
Shokoku-ji Temple
Shokoku-ji Temple is a major Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned as one of the city's historically significant "Five Great Zen Temples."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
ⓘ
head temple ⓘ temple complex ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jōdo Shinshū followers
ⓘ
Shinran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Buddhist temples in Kyoto
ⓘ
Jōdo Shinshū temples ⓘ head temples of Buddhist sects in Japan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Amida Buddha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shinran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Shinshū Ōtani-ha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | separate branch of Hongan-ji ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderRole | shogun ⓘ |
| foundingYear | 1602 ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center of Shinshū Ōtani-ha
ⓘ
center of Buddhist education ⓘ place of worship ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation | Hongan-ji tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
large tatami-floored halls
ⓘ
large wooden prayer halls ⓘ massive wooden pillars ⓘ ornate wooden interiors ⓘ spacious temple grounds ⓘ traditional Japanese temple architecture ⓘ |
| hasMainHall |
Amida-dō
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Goei-dō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | part of Kyoto’s historic temple landscape ⓘ |
| knownFor |
headquarters of Shinshū Ōtani-ha
ⓘ
important Jōdo Shinshū pilgrimage site ⓘ large wooden structures ⓘ vast wooden halls ⓘ |
| languageOfRitual | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Honshu
ⓘ
Japan ⓘ Kansai region ⓘ Kyoto ⓘ Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ |
| locatedInCityCenter | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kyoto Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nishi Hongan-ji Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSect | Jōdo Shinshū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openTo |
pilgrims
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pure Land Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | head temple of Shinshū Ōtani-ha ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Higashi Hongan-ji Temple Description of subject: Higashi Hongan-ji Temple is a major Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, known for its vast wooden halls and role as the head temple of the Shinshū Ōtani-ha sect.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Higashi Hongan-ji