Yanagisawa clan
E1025109
The Yanagisawa clan was a prominent samurai family of the Edo period, closely associated with the Tokugawa shogunate through high-ranking retainers and daimyō.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yanagisawa clan canonical | 3 |
| Sakai clan | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12242578 — 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: Yanagisawa clan Context triple: [Rikugien Garden, originalOwner, Yanagisawa clan]
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A.
Kikkawa clan
The Kikkawa clan was a prominent samurai family in western Japan that became closely allied with and eventually absorbed into the powerful Mōri clan during the Sengoku 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.
Hatakeyama clan
The Hatakeyama clan was a prominent samurai family in medieval Japan that rose to power as influential shugo (military governors) and played a key role in the politics of the Muromachi period.
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D.
Shimada Clan
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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E.
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.
- 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: Yanagisawa clan Target entity description: The Yanagisawa clan was a prominent samurai family of the Edo period, closely associated with the Tokugawa shogunate through high-ranking retainers and daimyō.
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A.
Kikkawa clan
The Kikkawa clan was a prominent samurai family in western Japan that became closely allied with and eventually absorbed into the powerful Mōri clan during the Sengoku 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.
Hatakeyama clan
The Hatakeyama clan was a prominent samurai family in medieval Japan that rose to power as influential shugo (military governors) and played a key role in the politics of the Muromachi period.
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D.
Shimada Clan
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
ⓘ
daimyō ⓘ samurai ⓘ samurai clan ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | Edo period ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tokugawa shogunate
ⓘ
Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext | buke (warrior) culture ⓘ |
| era | early modern Japan ⓘ |
| governanceType | feudal domain lords ⓘ |
| governedByLawCode |
Buke shohatto
ⓘ
linked to:
buke shohatto
|
| governmentStructure | hereditary clan leadership ⓘ |
| heldDomain |
Kawagoe Domain
ⓘ
Kōfu Domain ⓘ |
| heritage | Japanese nobility (warrior aristocracy) ⓘ |
| historicalCategory | Edo-period daimyō clan ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | influential retainers of the fifth Tokugawa shōgun ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yanagisawa clan ⓘ |
| militaryRole | samurai retainers ⓘ |
| militarySystem | feudal retainer system ⓘ |
| notableMember | Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| politicalRole | shogunal advisors ⓘ |
| politicalSystem |
Tokugawa feudal system
ⓘ
linked to:
Tokugawa shogunate
|
| powerBase |
Kawagoe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kōfu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| role |
daimyō family
ⓘ
high-ranking retainers of Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| servedAs |
Tairō-level senior counselor (de facto) of Tokugawa shogunate
ⓘ
rōjū ⓘ |
| servedGovernment | bakufu ⓘ |
| servedShogun | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi ⓘ |
| socialClass | samurai ⓘ |
| status | fudai daimyō ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Tokugawa shōgun ⓘ |
| title |
daimyō of Kawagoe Domain
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daimyō of Kōfu Domain ⓘ |
| typeOfDaimyō | fudai (hereditary vassal) daimyō ⓘ |
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: Yanagisawa clan Description of subject: The Yanagisawa clan was a prominent samurai family of the Edo period, closely associated with the Tokugawa shogunate through high-ranking retainers and daimyō.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.