Ashikaga Yoshimi
E948829
Ashikaga Yoshimi was a 15th-century Japanese shogunal prince whose contested claim to the Ashikaga shogunate helped trigger the Ōnin War and the subsequent Sengoku period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashikaga Yoshimi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11749589 — 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: Ashikaga Yoshimi Context triple: [Ōnin War, relatedTo, Ashikaga Yoshimi]
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A.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was the third shogun of Japan’s Ashikaga shogunate, known for consolidating shogunal power and fostering a flourishing culture that helped define the early Muromachi period.
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Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Ashikaga Yoshimasa was the eighth shogun of Japan’s Ashikaga shogunate, known for his patronage of the arts and the development of Higashiyama culture during the Muromachi period.
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Asai Nagamasa
Asai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō of Ōmi Province, known for his alliance and later betrayal of his brother-in-law Oda Nobunaga, which led to his clan’s destruction.
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Ōshima Yoshimasa
Ōshima Yoshimasa was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for his leadership during the First Sino-Japanese War, including commanding Japanese forces at the Battle of Seonghwan.
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E.
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
Minamoto no Yoshinaka was a 12th-century Japanese samurai general of the Genpei War who briefly seized control of Kyoto before being defeated by his Minamoto cousins.
- 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: Ashikaga Yoshimi Target entity description: Ashikaga Yoshimi was a 15th-century Japanese shogunal prince whose contested claim to the Ashikaga shogunate helped trigger the Ōnin War and the subsequent Sengoku period.
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A.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was the third shogun of Japan’s Ashikaga shogunate, known for consolidating shogunal power and fostering a flourishing culture that helped define the early Muromachi period.
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B.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Ashikaga Yoshimasa was the eighth shogun of Japan’s Ashikaga shogunate, known for his patronage of the arts and the development of Higashiyama culture during the Muromachi period.
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C.
Asai Nagamasa
Asai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō of Ōmi Province, known for his alliance and later betrayal of his brother-in-law Oda Nobunaga, which led to his clan’s destruction.
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D.
Ōshima Yoshimasa
Ōshima Yoshimasa was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for his leadership during the First Sino-Japanese War, including commanding Japanese forces at the Battle of Seonghwan.
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E.
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
Minamoto no Yoshinaka was a 12th-century Japanese samurai general of the Genpei War who briefly seized control of Kyoto before being defeated by his Minamoto cousins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
ⓘ
Japanese noble ⓘ Muromachi-period person ⓘ shogunal prince ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 15th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hosokawa clan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yamana clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Ōnin War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution | Ashikaga shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeriod | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfEvent | Ōnin War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | succession dispute within the Ashikaga shogunate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| era | Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ashikaga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Ashikaga Yoshinori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yoshimi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | figure in the transition from Muromachi to Sengoku period ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | helped trigger prolonged civil conflict in Japan ⓘ |
| house | Ashikaga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfDynasty | Ashikaga clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ashikaga Yoshimi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 足利義視 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contested claim to the Ashikaga shogunate
ⓘ
involvement in succession dispute with Ashikaga Yoshimasa ⓘ role in the outbreak of the Ōnin War ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | opposition faction within Ashikaga shogunate ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | shogunal prince without securing the shogunate ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Buddhist monk
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shogunal heir claimant ⓘ |
| powerBase | Ashikaga clan supporters ⓘ |
| predecessorInClaim | Ashikaga Yoshinori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Ashikaga Yoshihisa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| rival | Ashikaga Yoshimasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Ashikaga Yoshimasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorInShogunate | Ashikaga Yoshihisa 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: Ashikaga Yoshimi Description of subject: Ashikaga Yoshimi was a 15th-century Japanese shogunal prince whose contested claim to the Ashikaga shogunate helped trigger the Ōnin War and the subsequent Sengoku period.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.