Zentsuji
E895267
Zentsuji is a historic city in Japan known as the birthplace of the Buddhist monk Kūkai and home to the famous Zentsū-ji Temple, one of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zentsuji canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10939735 — 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: Zentsuji Context triple: [Kagawa Prefecture, hasCity, Zentsuji]
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A.
Dōgen
Dōgen was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen, renowned for his influential writings on meditation and enlightenment.
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B.
Heiga Zen
Heiga Zen is a researcher in speech synthesis and machine learning, known for helping develop Google's WaveNet neural network for generating raw audio.
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C.
Gyōki
Gyōki was an influential Japanese Buddhist monk of the Nara period known for his public works, social welfare activities, and role in promoting Buddhism among the common people.
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D.
Ikkyū Sōjun
Ikkyū Sōjun was a 15th-century Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet famed for his iconoclastic behavior, irreverent verse, and influential role in shaping later Zen culture.
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E.
Saichō
Saichō was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who introduced and established the Tendai school in Japan after studying Tiantai Buddhism in China.
- 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: Zentsuji Target entity description: Zentsuji is a historic city in Japan known as the birthplace of the Buddhist monk Kūkai and home to the famous Zentsū-ji Temple, one of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
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A.
Dōgen
Dōgen was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen, renowned for his influential writings on meditation and enlightenment.
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B.
Heiga Zen
Heiga Zen is a researcher in speech synthesis and machine learning, known for helping develop Google's WaveNet neural network for generating raw audio.
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C.
Gyōki
Gyōki was an influential Japanese Buddhist monk of the Nara period known for his public works, social welfare activities, and role in promoting Buddhism among the common people.
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D.
Ikkyū Sōjun
Ikkyū Sōjun was a 15th-century Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet famed for his iconoclastic behavior, irreverent verse, and influential role in shaping later Zen culture.
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E.
Saichō
Saichō was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who introduced and established the Tendai school in Japan after studying Tiantai Buddhism in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf | Kūkai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateClassification | Cfa ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| governingBody | Zentsuji City Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 0877 ⓘ |
| hasCityHall | Zentsuji City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalProperty | Zentsu-ji Temple precincts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | National Defense Academy of Japan Zentsuji campus (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFestival | events related to Kūkai ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance | center of early Shingon Buddhism ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
light manufacturing ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 善通寺市 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Five-story pagoda of Zentsu-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableTemple | Zentsu-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOnShikokuPilgrimage | Temple 75 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodePrefix | 765 ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Zentsuji Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSite |
Konzō-ji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mandara-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSisterCity | Honolulu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
railway
ⓘ
road network ⓘ |
| isStopOn | Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTouristDestinationFor |
Buddhist pilgrims
ⓘ
cultural tourism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Shikoku Pilgrimage
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zentsu-ji Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ birthplace of Kūkai ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kagawa Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanuki Plain NERFINISHED ⓘ Shikoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Marugame
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tadotsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Shikoku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Zentsu-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prefectureCapital | Takamatsu (nearby, not in Zentsuji) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Chugoku-Shikoku block NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Shingon Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByRailwayLine | JR Dosan Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +09:00 ⓘ |
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: Zentsuji Description of subject: Zentsuji is a historic city in Japan known as the birthplace of the Buddhist monk Kūkai and home to the famous Zentsū-ji Temple, one of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.