Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion

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The Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion was a major 1637–1638 uprising of mostly Christian peasants and ronin in Japan’s Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Islands against heavy taxation and religious persecution, which ended in brutal suppression and reinforced the Tokugawa shogunate’s isolationist and anti-Christian policies.

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Label	Occurrences
Shimabara Rebellion	6
Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion canonical	6
Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion suppression	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16534960 — 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: Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion
Context triple: [Amakusa Islands, historicalEvent, Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion]

A. Akizuki Rebellion
The Akizuki Rebellion was an 1876 samurai uprising in Akizuki, Japan, protesting the Meiji government's rapid modernization and loss of traditional samurai privileges.
B. Shinpūren Rebellion
The Shinpūren Rebellion was an 1876 uprising in Kumamoto, Japan, led by radical samurai opposed to Westernization and the Meiji government's reforms.
C. Hagi Rebellion
The Hagi Rebellion was a short-lived 1876 samurai uprising in Japan’s Chōshū domain, reflecting discontent with the Meiji government’s modernization policies and foreshadowing larger revolts like the Satsuma Rebellion.
D. Satsuma Rebellion
The Satsuma Rebellion was an 1877 uprising of disaffected samurai against Japan’s rapidly modernizing Meiji government, marking the last major armed resistance to its centralizing reforms.
E. Musha Incident
The Musha Incident was a 1930 uprising by Indigenous Seediq people against Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan, marked by a violent attack on Japanese settlers and a brutal military crackdown in response.
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: Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion
Target entity description: The Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion was a major 1637–1638 uprising of mostly Christian peasants and ronin in Japan’s Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Islands against heavy taxation and religious persecution, which ended in brutal suppression and reinforced the Tokugawa shogunate’s isolationist and anti-Christian policies.

A. Akizuki Rebellion
The Akizuki Rebellion was an 1876 samurai uprising in Akizuki, Japan, protesting the Meiji government's rapid modernization and loss of traditional samurai privileges.
B. Shinpūren Rebellion
The Shinpūren Rebellion was an 1876 uprising in Kumamoto, Japan, led by radical samurai opposed to Westernization and the Meiji government's reforms.
C. Hagi Rebellion
The Hagi Rebellion was a short-lived 1876 samurai uprising in Japan’s Chōshū domain, reflecting discontent with the Meiji government’s modernization policies and foreshadowing larger revolts like the Satsuma Rebellion.
D. Satsuma Rebellion
The Satsuma Rebellion was an 1877 uprising of disaffected samurai against Japan’s rapidly modernizing Meiji government, marking the last major armed resistance to its centralizing reforms.
E. Musha Incident
The Musha Incident was a 1930 uprising by Indigenous Seediq people against Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan, marked by a violent attack on Japanese settlers and a brutal military crackdown in response.
F. None of above. chosen