Yūgao
E1045712
Yūgao is a fragile, lower-ranking court lady and one of Hikaru Genji’s most tragic early lovers in The Tale of Genji, whose mysterious death deeply affects him.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13482378 — 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: Yūgao Context triple: [Hikaru Genji, fictionalLover, Yūgao]
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A.
Gaoxiu
Gaoxiu was the courtesy name of Zhu Biao, the Crown Prince of the Ming dynasty and eldest son of the Hongwu Emperor.
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B.
Yanshou
Yanshou was a prominent 10th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk and scholar known for synthesizing various Buddhist traditions and emphasizing the unity of different paths to enlightenment.
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C.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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D.
Yüeh
Yüeh is an alternative romanization of "Yue," a term historically associated with various ancient peoples and regions in southern China and their related languages and cultures.
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E.
Dushun
Dushun was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk traditionally regarded as the founding patriarch of the Huayan school of Mahayana Buddhism.
- 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: Yūgao Target entity description: Yūgao is a fragile, lower-ranking court lady and one of Hikaru Genji’s most tragic early lovers in The Tale of Genji, whose mysterious death deeply affects him.
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A.
Gaoxiu
Gaoxiu was the courtesy name of Zhu Biao, the Crown Prince of the Ming dynasty and eldest son of the Hongwu Emperor.
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B.
Yanshou
Yanshou was a prominent 10th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk and scholar known for synthesizing various Buddhist traditions and emphasizing the unity of different paths to enlightenment.
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C.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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D.
Yüeh
Yüeh is an alternative romanization of "Yue," a term historically associated with various ancient peoples and regions in southern China and their related languages and cultures.
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E.
Dushun
Dushun was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk traditionally regarded as the founding patriarch of the Huayan school of Mahayana Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Genji’s lover
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court lady ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Tale of Genji ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | “Yūgao” chapter of The Tale of Genji ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Heian court
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linked to:
Heian aristocracy
Hikaru Genji ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | supernatural or spiritual influence (ambiguous in text) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
fragile
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gentle ⓘ modest ⓘ |
| createdBy | Murasaki Shikibu ⓘ |
| death | dies mysteriously ⓘ |
| deathEffectOn | Hikaru Genji ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| influences | Genji’s later relationships ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Classical Japanese ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Heian period literature ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | moonflower ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
illustrates fragility of life and love
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intensifies Genji’s sense of loss ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| relationshipToGenji | secret lover ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
early lover of Hikaru Genji
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tragic heroine ⓘ |
| socialStatus | lower-ranking court lady ⓘ |
| symbolism |
ephemeral beauty
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transience of human life ⓘ vulnerability of women in Heian court ⓘ |
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: Yūgao Description of subject: Yūgao is a fragile, lower-ranking court lady and one of Hikaru Genji’s most tragic early lovers in The Tale of Genji, whose mysterious death deeply affects him.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yūgao
linked to: Yūgao