Shimada Clan
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The Shimada Clan is a powerful and traditional Japanese crime family in the Overwatch universe, known for its mastery of ninjutsu and archery and for being the birthplace of the brothers Genji and Hanzo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shimada Clan canonical | 2 |
| Shimada clan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11543073 — 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: Shimada Clan Context triple: [Genji, affiliation, Shimada Clan]
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A.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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B.
Azai clan
The Azai clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, known for its rule over northern Ōmi Province and its eventual destruction by Oda Nobunaga.
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C.
Ikeda clan
The Ikeda clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence as feudal lords (daimyō) during the Sengoku and Edo periods.
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D.
Matsudaira clan
The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Kakinomoto clan
The Kakinomoto clan was an ancient Japanese family best known for producing the celebrated Asuka-period poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a central figure in early Japanese literature.
- 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: Shimada Clan Target entity description: The Shimada Clan is a powerful and traditional Japanese crime family in the Overwatch universe, known for its mastery of ninjutsu and archery and for being the birthplace of the brothers Genji and Hanzo.
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A.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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B.
Azai clan
The Azai clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, known for its rule over northern Ōmi Province and its eventual destruction by Oda Nobunaga.
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C.
Ikeda clan
The Ikeda clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence as feudal lords (daimyō) during the Sengoku and Edo periods.
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D.
Matsudaira clan
The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Kakinomoto clan
The Kakinomoto clan was an ancient Japanese family best known for producing the celebrated Asuka-period poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a central figure in early Japanese literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Overwatch universe organization
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fictional criminal organization ⓘ yakuza clan ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Dragons (Overwatch animated short)
NERFINISHED
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Overwatch NERFINISHED ⓘ Overwatch 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Overwatch comics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedLocation |
Hanamura dojo
NERFINISHED
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Hanamura shrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Genji Shimada
NERFINISHED
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Overwatch organization ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalInfluence | traditional Japanese aesthetics ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Shimada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Overwatch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Shimada family ancestors ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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science fiction ⓘ |
| governingBody | Shimada elders council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquarters | Shimada castle in Hanamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| internalConflict | succession dispute between Hanzo and Genji ⓘ |
| knownFor |
archery mastery
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assassination ⓘ ninjutsu mastery ⓘ organized crime ⓘ smuggling ⓘ use of dragons as spiritual weapons ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| location | Hanamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Genji Shimada
NERFINISHED
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Hanzo Shimada NERFINISHED ⓘ Shimada elders ⓘ Sojiro Shimada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ |
| successor |
Genji Shimada (initially intended)
NERFINISHED
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Hanzo Shimada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbol | stylized dragon emblem ⓘ |
| trainingDiscipline |
archery
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martial arts ⓘ stealth ⓘ swordsmanship ⓘ |
| typeOfCrime |
assassination contracts
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black market trade ⓘ extortion ⓘ weapons trafficking ⓘ |
| usesAbility | Dragonstrike ⓘ |
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: Shimada Clan Description of subject: The Shimada Clan is a powerful and traditional Japanese crime family in the Overwatch universe, known for its mastery of ninjutsu and archery and for being the birthplace of the brothers Genji and Hanzo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shimada clan