Ōnin
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Ōnin is the Japanese era name (nengō) that corresponds to the time of the Ōnin War, a major 15th-century civil conflict that helped trigger the Sengoku period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ōnin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11749579 — 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: Ōnin Context triple: [Ōnin War, eraName, Ōnin]
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A.
Tadaoka
Tadaoka is a small coastal town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for being one of the smallest municipalities in the country by area.
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B.
Rikitea
Rikitea is the principal village and administrative hub of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia, known for its lagoon setting and pearl-farming activities.
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C.
Enryaku
Enryaku was a Japanese era during the reign of Emperor Kanmu, notable for major political reforms and the early development of Kyoto as the imperial capital.
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D.
Nagakute
Nagakute is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for hosting part of Expo 2005 and for its blend of suburban residential areas and cultural attractions.
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E.
Risshū
Risshū is a Japanese Buddhist monastic order founded by the Chinese monk Ganjin that emphasizes strict adherence to the Vinaya (monastic precepts).
- 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: Ōnin Target entity description: Ōnin is the Japanese era name (nengō) that corresponds to the time of the Ōnin War, a major 15th-century civil conflict that helped trigger the Sengoku period.
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A.
Tadaoka
Tadaoka is a small coastal town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for being one of the smallest municipalities in the country by area.
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B.
Rikitea
Rikitea is the principal village and administrative hub of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia, known for its lagoon setting and pearl-farming activities.
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C.
Enryaku
Enryaku was a Japanese era during the reign of Emperor Kanmu, notable for major political reforms and the early development of Kyoto as the imperial capital.
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D.
Nagakute
Nagakute is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for hosting part of Expo 2005 and for its blend of suburban residential areas and cultural attractions.
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E.
Risshū
Risshū is a Japanese Buddhist monastic order founded by the Chinese monk Ganjin that emphasizes strict adherence to the Vinaya (monastic precepts).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era name
ⓘ
nengō ⓘ |
| associatedShogun | Ashikaga Yoshimasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCapitalDestruction | Kyoto urban warfare GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFeudalLords | daimyō GENERATED ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Japanese era calendar ⓘ |
| capitalDuringEra | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| century | 15th century ⓘ |
| chronologicalPosition | late Muromachi era ⓘ |
| chronologyContext | pre-Sengoku Japan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| endDate | 1469-04-28 ⓘ |
| endYear | 1469 ⓘ |
| eraLengthInYears | 3 ⓘ |
| eraNameForEmperor |
Emperor Go-Hanazono
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraNameSystem | nengō system ⓘ |
| eraSequenceInMuromachiPeriod |
follows Bunshō
ⓘ
precedes Bunmei ⓘ |
| follows | Bunshō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentTypeDuringEra | Ashikaga shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedEvent | Ōnin War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedPeriod | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEraChangeReason | political and social unrest ⓘ |
| hasKeyThemeInScholarship | transition from centralized to fragmented power ⓘ |
| hasOriginalScriptForm | 応仁 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
contributed to onset of Sengoku period
ⓘ
marks outbreak of large-scale civil war in Japan ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ōnin War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableConflict | Ōnin War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orthographyType | shinjitai/kyūjitai kanji ⓘ |
| precedes | Bunmei ⓘ |
| region | Honshu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Hepburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 1467-03-05 ⓘ |
| startYear | 1467 ⓘ |
| transcription | Onin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfName | period name ⓘ |
| usedForDatingDocuments | yes ⓘ |
| usedInDatingBattleRecords | Ōnin War chronicles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInHistoriographyOf | Japanese medieval history ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kanji ⓘ |
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: Ōnin Description of subject: Ōnin is the Japanese era name (nengō) that corresponds to the time of the Ōnin War, a major 15th-century civil conflict that helped trigger the Sengoku period.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.