Uesugi Kagekatsu
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Uesugi Kagekatsu was a prominent Sengoku and early Edo period daimyō who inherited leadership of the Uesugi clan and became a key opponent of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uesugi Kagekatsu canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10978523 — 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: Uesugi Kagekatsu Context triple: [Uesugi clan, notableMember, Uesugi Kagekatsu]
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Katō Kiyomasa
Katō Kiyomasa was a prominent Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and military leader renowned for his fierce samurai discipline, castle-building expertise, and major role in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasions of Korea.
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Kuroda Nagamasa
Kuroda Nagamasa was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō, known for his military leadership, political acumen, and role in consolidating Tokugawa power.
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Azai Nagamasa
Azai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō known for his alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga, as well as for being the husband of Nobunaga’s sister Oichi.
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D.
Chōsokabe Motochika
Chōsokabe Motochika was a prominent Sengoku-period daimyō who unified Shikoku under his rule before being subdued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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E.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
- 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: Uesugi Kagekatsu Target entity description: Uesugi Kagekatsu was a prominent Sengoku and early Edo period daimyō who inherited leadership of the Uesugi clan and became a key opponent of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign.
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A.
Katō Kiyomasa
Katō Kiyomasa was a prominent Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and military leader renowned for his fierce samurai discipline, castle-building expertise, and major role in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasions of Korea.
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B.
Kuroda Nagamasa
Kuroda Nagamasa was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō, known for his military leadership, political acumen, and role in consolidating Tokugawa power.
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C.
Azai Nagamasa
Azai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō known for his alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga, as well as for being the husband of Nobunaga’s sister Oichi.
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D.
Chōsokabe Motochika
Chōsokabe Motochika was a prominent Sengoku-period daimyō who unified Shikoku under his rule before being subdued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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E.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Edo-period person
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Japanese samurai ⓘ Sengoku-period person ⓘ daimyō ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | Uesugi Kenshin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Ishida Mitsunari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biologicalFather | Nagao Masakage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1556 ⓘ |
| castle |
Aizu-Wakamatsu Castle
NERFINISHED
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Kasugayama Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ Yonezawa Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clan | Uesugi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Yonezawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1623 ⓘ |
| domain |
Aizu domain
NERFINISHED
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Echigo Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Yonezawa domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
NERFINISHED
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Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ early Edo period ⓘ |
| familyName | Uesugi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foughtForSide | Western Army at Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Kagekatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldTitle |
Daimyō of Aizu
NERFINISHED
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Daimyō of Yonezawa ⓘ Lord of Echigo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| laterKoku | 300,000 koku at Yonezawa ⓘ |
| lostTerritoryAfter | Battle of Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Aya-Gozen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | daimyō of 1,200,000 koku at peak ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Tedorigawa
NERFINISHED
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Sekigahara campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Hasedō NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Otate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of the Uesugi clan
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opposition to Tokugawa Ieyasu ⓘ victory in the Otate no Ran succession conflict ⓘ |
| opponent | Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Uesugi Kenshin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Go-Bugyō member ⓘ |
| reducedStipendAfter | Battle of Sekigahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Uesugi Kagetora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Oda Nobunaga
NERFINISHED
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Toyotomi administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Uesugi Sadakatsu 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: Uesugi Kagekatsu Description of subject: Uesugi Kagekatsu was a prominent Sengoku and early Edo period daimyō who inherited leadership of the Uesugi clan and became a key opponent of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.