Minamoto no Yoritomo
E100731
Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and first shogun of Japan’s Kamakura shogunate, establishing the country’s first military government in the late 12th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minamoto no Yoritomo canonical | 20 |
| Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes de facto ruler of Japan | 1 |
| Yoritomo | 1 |
| 源頼朝 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682785 — 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: Minamoto no Yoritomo Context triple: [Heian period, significantPerson, Minamoto no Yoritomo]
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A.
Taira no Kiyomori
Taira no Kiyomori was a powerful 12th-century Japanese warlord and head of the Taira clan who briefly established samurai dominance over the imperial court, setting the stage for the rise of military rule in Japan.
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B.
Ugaki Kazushige
Ugaki Kazushige was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a prominent imperial administrator during Japan’s pre-World War II expansion.
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C.
Fujiwara no Yorimichi
Fujiwara no Yorimichi was a powerful 11th-century Japanese court noble and regent who dominated Heian-period politics and famously sponsored the construction of the Byōdō-in temple at Uji.
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D.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a preeminent 16th-century Japanese daimyo and military leader who unified Japan after a long period of civil war and laid the foundations for the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Nakae Chōmin
Nakae Chōmin was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese political thinker, journalist, and translator who helped introduce Western liberal ideas to Japan and became a leading advocate for democracy and civil rights.
- 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: Minamoto no Yoritomo Target entity description: Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and first shogun of Japan’s Kamakura shogunate, establishing the country’s first military government in the late 12th century.
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A.
Taira no Kiyomori
Taira no Kiyomori was a powerful 12th-century Japanese warlord and head of the Taira clan who briefly established samurai dominance over the imperial court, setting the stage for the rise of military rule in Japan.
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B.
Ugaki Kazushige
Ugaki Kazushige was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a prominent imperial administrator during Japan’s pre-World War II expansion.
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C.
Fujiwara no Yorimichi
Fujiwara no Yorimichi was a powerful 11th-century Japanese court noble and regent who dominated Heian-period politics and famously sponsored the construction of the Byōdō-in temple at Uji.
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D.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a preeminent 16th-century Japanese daimyo and military leader who unified Japan after a long period of civil war and laid the foundations for the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Nakae Chōmin
Nakae Chōmin was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese political thinker, journalist, and translator who helped introduce Western liberal ideas to Japan and became a leading advocate for democracy and civil rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Minamoto no Yoritomo Description of subject: Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and first shogun of Japan’s Kamakura shogunate, establishing the country’s first military government in the late 12th century.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes de facto ruler of Japan
this entity surface form:
源頼朝
this entity surface form:
Yoritomo