Great Fire of Meireki
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The Great Fire of Meireki was a devastating 1657 conflagration in Edo (now Tokyo) that destroyed much of the city and prompted major urban reconstruction and reorganization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Fire of Meireki canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14237050 — 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: Great Fire of Meireki Context triple: [Yoshiwara pleasure district, relocatedAfterEvent, Great Fire of Meireki]
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A.
Sakuragichō train fire
The Sakuragichō train fire was a 1951 railway disaster in Yokohama, Japan, in which an overhead wire caused a blaze that killed more than 100 passengers and led to major safety reforms on Japanese trains.
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B.
Ishiyama Hongan-ji War
The Ishiyama Hongan-ji War was a protracted late-16th-century conflict in Japan between the militant Ikkō-ikki sect based at the Ishiyama Hongan-ji temple fortress and the forces of warlord Oda Nobunaga, emblematic of the intense religious and political struggles of the Sengoku period.
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C.
Nagasaki bugyō
Nagasaki bugyō were high-ranking Tokugawa shogunate officials responsible for administering the port city of Nagasaki and overseeing Japan’s tightly controlled foreign trade and relations during the Edo period.
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D.
The Great Fire
The Great Fire is a theatrical production that dramatizes the events and aftermath of the devastating 1871 Chicago fire.
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E.
Daijō-daikan
Daijō-daikan was the highest central administrative office of Japan’s imperial government, overseeing state affairs and bureaucracy in the classical ritsuryō system.
- 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: Great Fire of Meireki Target entity description: The Great Fire of Meireki was a devastating 1657 conflagration in Edo (now Tokyo) that destroyed much of the city and prompted major urban reconstruction and reorganization.
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A.
Sakuragichō train fire
The Sakuragichō train fire was a 1951 railway disaster in Yokohama, Japan, in which an overhead wire caused a blaze that killed more than 100 passengers and led to major safety reforms on Japanese trains.
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B.
Ishiyama Hongan-ji War
The Ishiyama Hongan-ji War was a protracted late-16th-century conflict in Japan between the militant Ikkō-ikki sect based at the Ishiyama Hongan-ji temple fortress and the forces of warlord Oda Nobunaga, emblematic of the intense religious and political struggles of the Sengoku period.
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C.
Nagasaki bugyō
Nagasaki bugyō were high-ranking Tokugawa shogunate officials responsible for administering the port city of Nagasaki and overseeing Japan’s tightly controlled foreign trade and relations during the Edo period.
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D.
The Great Fire
The Great Fire is a theatrical production that dramatizes the events and aftermath of the devastating 1871 Chicago fire.
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E.
Daijō-daikan
Daijō-daikan was the highest central administrative office of Japan’s imperial government, overseeing state affairs and bureaucracy in the classical ritsuryō system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.