Oharai
E1038638
Oharai is a major Shinto purification ritual intended to cleanse people, objects, and spaces of spiritual impurity and misfortune.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12017946 — 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: Oharai Context triple: [Nagoshi no Harae, relatedRite, Oharai]
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A.
Ōhira
Ōhira is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Masayoshi Ōhira, a former Prime Minister of Japan.
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B.
Nagahori
Nagahori is a district in Osaka, Japan, known primarily as an urban area served by the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line.
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C.
Hiranaka
Hiranaka is a Japanese surname borne by individuals such as former professional boxer Akinobu Hiranaka.
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D.
Takarano
Takarano is a small settlement on the atoll of Tabiteuea in the island nation of Kiribati, located in the central Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Takarano
Takarano is a village located on the atoll of Abaiang in the island nation of Kiribati.
- 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: Oharai Target entity description: Oharai is a major Shinto purification ritual intended to cleanse people, objects, and spaces of spiritual impurity and misfortune.
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A.
Ōhira
Ōhira is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Masayoshi Ōhira, a former Prime Minister of Japan.
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B.
Nagahori
Nagahori is a district in Osaka, Japan, known primarily as an urban area served by the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line.
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C.
Hiranaka
Hiranaka is a Japanese surname borne by individuals such as former professional boxer Akinobu Hiranaka.
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D.
Takarano
Takarano is a small settlement on the atoll of Tabiteuea in the island nation of Kiribati, located in the central Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Takarano
Takarano is a village located on the atoll of Abaiang in the island nation of Kiribati.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shinto purification ritual
ⓘ
Shinto religious practice ⓘ |
| aimsToAchieve |
harmony with kami
ⓘ
protection ⓘ renewal ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
harae
ⓘ
kegare ⓘ misogi ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Amaterasu
ⓘ
Hachiman ⓘ local kami ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japan ⓘ |
| field | Japanese religious practice ⓘ |
| frequency | periodic ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Great Purification
ⓘ
linked to:
PurificationRites
Ōharae ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
communal ritual
ⓘ
individual ritual ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
averting misfortune
ⓘ
removal of kegare (impurity) ⓘ restoring ritual purity ⓘ spiritual purification ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Shinto shrine
ⓘ
construction site ⓘ home ⓘ workplace ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Kannushi
ⓘ
Miko ⓘ Shinto priest ⓘ |
| performedForOccasion |
New Year
ⓘ
after misfortune ⓘ before festivals ⓘ before important life events ⓘ |
| performedOn |
objects
ⓘ
people ⓘ spaces ⓘ |
| relatedRitual |
Misogi
ⓘ
Shubatsu ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| ritualAction |
recitation of norito (prayers)
ⓘ
symbolic transfer of impurity ⓘ waving of purification wand ⓘ |
| symbolicallyRemoves |
bad luck
ⓘ
calamity ⓘ spiritual pollution ⓘ |
| usesRitualObject |
haraigushi
ⓘ
ōnusa ⓘ |
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: Oharai Description of subject: Oharai is a major Shinto purification ritual intended to cleanse people, objects, and spaces of spiritual impurity and misfortune.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Oharai