Keishōin
E1038845
Keishōin was a prominent Edo-period Japanese noblewoman and the mother of shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, known for her political influence and religious patronage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Keishōin canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13411728 — 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: Keishōin Context triple: [Gokoku-ji, Tokyo, foundedBy, Keishōin]
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A.
Arisugawa no Miya Toshihime
Arisugawa no Miya Toshihime was a Japanese imperial princess of the Arisugawa-no-miya house and a member of the broader Japanese Imperial Family in the late Edo to early Meiji period.
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B.
Nijō Tsuruko
Nijō Tsuruko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
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C.
Yoshihime
Yoshihime was a Sengoku-period Japanese noblewoman best known as the mother of the powerful warlord Date Masamune.
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D.
Nōhime
Nōhime was a 16th-century Japanese noblewoman, traditionally regarded as the politically significant but enigmatic wife of the warlord Oda Nobunaga.
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E.
Hanako, Princess Hitachi
Hanako, Princess Hitachi is a member of the Japanese imperial family known for her cultural and charitable work, particularly in the fields of welfare and the arts.
- 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: Keishōin Target entity description: Keishōin was a prominent Edo-period Japanese noblewoman and the mother of shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, known for her political influence and religious patronage.
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A.
Arisugawa no Miya Toshihime
Arisugawa no Miya Toshihime was a Japanese imperial princess of the Arisugawa-no-miya house and a member of the broader Japanese Imperial Family in the late Edo to early Meiji period.
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B.
Nijō Tsuruko
Nijō Tsuruko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
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C.
Yoshihime
Yoshihime was a Sengoku-period Japanese noblewoman best known as the mother of the powerful warlord Date Masamune.
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D.
Nōhime
Nōhime was a 16th-century Japanese noblewoman, traditionally regarded as the politically significant but enigmatic wife of the warlord Oda Nobunaga.
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E.
Hanako, Princess Hitachi
Hanako, Princess Hitachi is a member of the Japanese imperial family known for her cultural and charitable work, particularly in the fields of welfare and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Edo-period person
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Japanese noblewoman ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tokugawa shogunate
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Ōoku ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Tokyo
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a Tokugawa family temple ⓘ |
| category |
Japanese Buddhist laywomen
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Japanese women of the Edo period ⓘ Tokugawa shogunate people ⓘ |
| child | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi ⓘ |
| childOf | Keishōin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| era | Edo period ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| father | Tokugawa Iemitsu ⓘ |
| givenName | Ofuku ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Keishōin ⓘ |
| influenced | shogunal policies through court influence ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| motherOf | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | mother of the shogun ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Tokugawa clan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
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political influence in the Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ religious patronage ⓘ |
| patronage | Buddhist temples ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Edo
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Japan ⓘ |
| politicalInfluenceOn | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi ⓘ |
| positionHeld | concubine of Tokugawa Iemitsu ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousName | Keishōin ⓘ |
| residence | Edo Castle ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole | influential figure in the Ōoku (women’s quarters of Edo Castle) ⓘ |
| spouseOrPartner | Tokugawa Iemitsu ⓘ |
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: Keishōin Description of subject: Keishōin was a prominent Edo-period Japanese noblewoman and the mother of shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, known for her political influence and religious patronage.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.