Ruriko-ji Temple
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Ruriko-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Yamaguchi, Japan, best known for its elegant five-story pagoda, considered one of the finest in the country.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruriko-ji Pagoda | 1 |
| Ruriko-ji Temple canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10529994 — 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: Ruriko-ji Temple Context triple: [Yamaguchi Prefecture, hasTemple, Ruriko-ji Temple]
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A.
Joruri-ji Temple
Joruri-ji Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple in Kizugawa, Japan, renowned for its Heian-period architecture, Pure Land garden, and statues of the Amida Buddha.
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Zenkō-ji Temple
Zenkō-ji Temple is a historic and highly revered Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, known as one of the country’s most important pilgrimage sites.
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Engyō-ji Temple
Engyō-ji Temple is an ancient Tendai Buddhist temple complex on Mount Shosha in Himeji, Japan, renowned for its historic wooden halls and scenic, forested setting.
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D.
Kinpusen-ji Temple
Kinpusen-ji Temple is a major Shugendō Buddhist temple complex in Nara Prefecture, Japan, renowned as a sacred mountain worship site and part of the UNESCO-listed Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
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E.
Kōshō-ji Temple
Kōshō-ji Temple is a historic Japanese Buddhist temple notable for incorporating architectural materials from the former Fushimi Castle.
- 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: Ruriko-ji Temple Target entity description: Ruriko-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Yamaguchi, Japan, best known for its elegant five-story pagoda, considered one of the finest in the country.
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A.
Joruri-ji Temple
Joruri-ji Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple in Kizugawa, Japan, renowned for its Heian-period architecture, Pure Land garden, and statues of the Amida Buddha.
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B.
Zenkō-ji Temple
Zenkō-ji Temple is a historic and highly revered Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, known as one of the country’s most important pilgrimage sites.
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C.
Engyō-ji Temple
Engyō-ji Temple is an ancient Tendai Buddhist temple complex on Mount Shosha in Himeji, Japan, renowned for its historic wooden halls and scenic, forested setting.
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D.
Kinpusen-ji Temple
Kinpusen-ji Temple is a major Shugendō Buddhist temple complex in Nara Prefecture, Japan, renowned as a sacred mountain worship site and part of the UNESCO-listed Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
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E.
Kōshō-ji Temple
Kōshō-ji Temple is a historic Japanese Buddhist temple notable for incorporating architectural materials from the former Fushimi Castle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ |
| affiliation | Zen Buddhism ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional Japanese Buddhist temple architecture ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | one of Japan’s most celebrated pagodas ⓘ |
| hasAltitudeType | lowland temple setting ⓘ |
| hasCity | Yamaguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalCategory |
Japanese Buddhist temple
ⓘ
historic religious site in Japan ⓘ |
| hasFiveStoryPagoda | true ⓘ |
| hasGarden | Japanese garden ⓘ |
| hasNameInJapanese | 瑠璃光寺 ⓘ |
| hasPart | Ruriko-ji five-story pagoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrefecture | Yamaguchi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStructureType |
gate
ⓘ
main hall ⓘ pagoda ⓘ |
| hasVisitorFacility |
parking area
ⓘ
viewing spots for pagoda ⓘ walking paths ⓘ |
| heritageStatus |
Important Cultural Property of Japan
NERFINISHED
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designated scenic spot of Yamaguchi Prefecture ⓘ |
| isFamousFor | elegant five-story pagoda ⓘ |
| isFamousIn | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPhotographedFor |
cultural heritage photography
ⓘ
landscape photography ⓘ |
| knownFor |
five-story pagoda
ⓘ
scenic temple grounds ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Yamaguchi City
NERFINISHED
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Yamaguchi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableView | illuminated pagoda at night ⓘ |
| region | Chugoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Buddhist worship
ⓘ
cultural appreciation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: Ruriko-ji Temple Description of subject: Ruriko-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Yamaguchi, Japan, best known for its elegant five-story pagoda, considered one of the finest in the country.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yamaguchi Prefecture
subject surface form:
Yamaguchi Prefecture
this entity surface form:
Ruriko-ji Pagoda