Gen’ei
E1043304
Gen’ei was a Japanese era name (nengō) used during the reign of Emperor Toba in the early 12th century.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13494402 — 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: Gen’ei Context triple: [Emperor Toba, eraNameUsed, Gen’ei]
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A.
Genshō
Genshō was an 8th-century Japanese empress who ruled during the Nara period and is known for continuing the centralizing reforms of her predecessors.
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B.
Gento
Gento was a Vandal nobleman of the late 5th century, known primarily as a member of the Vandal royal family in North Africa.
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C.
Geisa
Geisa is a small historic town in the state of Thuringia in central Germany, near the former inner-German border.
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D.
Genda
Genda is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Minoru Genda, an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and key planner of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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E.
Garai
Garai is a surname most notably associated with English actress and director Romola Garai.
- 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: Gen’ei Target entity description: Gen’ei was a Japanese era name (nengō) used during the reign of Emperor Toba in the early 12th century.
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A.
Genshō
Genshō was an 8th-century Japanese empress who ruled during the Nara period and is known for continuing the centralizing reforms of her predecessors.
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B.
Gento
Gento was a Vandal nobleman of the late 5th century, known primarily as a member of the Vandal royal family in North Africa.
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C.
Geisa
Geisa is a small historic town in the state of Thuringia in central Germany, near the former inner-German border.
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D.
Genda
Genda is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Minoru Genda, an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and key planner of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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E.
Garai
Garai is a surname most notably associated with English actress and director Romola Garai.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era name
ⓘ
nengō ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Imperial court of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial Court of Japan
|
| calendarSystem | Japanese calendar ⓘ |
| century | 12th century ⓘ |
| chronologicalPosition | early 12th century Japanese era ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| endYear | 1120 ⓘ |
| eraOf | Emperor Toba ⓘ |
| followedBy | Hōan ⓘ |
| follows |
Hōan
ⓘ
linked to:
Hōen
|
| governmentType | Imperial monarchy ⓘ |
| hasType | historical period ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| namedAfter | era name change under Emperor Toba ⓘ |
| precededBy | Hōan ⓘ |
| preModernEra | yes ⓘ |
| region | Kyoto ⓘ |
| reignOf | Emperor Toba ⓘ |
| startYear | 1118 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
dating days
ⓘ
dating months ⓘ dating years ⓘ |
| usedIn | Heian period ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kanji ⓘ |
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: Gen’ei Description of subject: Gen’ei was a Japanese era name (nengō) used during the reign of Emperor Toba in the early 12th century.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gen’ei