Minamoto
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Minamoto was a powerful Japanese samurai clan that played a central role in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, producing several shoguns and shaping the rise of the shogunate.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minamoto canonical | 12 |
| Kamakura-based Minamoto forces | 1 |
| Minamoto clan noble (name uncertain) | 1 |
| Minamoto no Yoritomo’s army | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17972319 — 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: Minamoto Context triple: [Minamoto no Yoriie, familyName, Minamoto]
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A.
Taira
Taira was a powerful samurai clan that dominated late Heian-period Japanese politics and warfare before its downfall in the Genpei War.
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B.
Hōjō
Hōjō was a powerful samurai clan that rose to prominence as feudal lords in Japan during the late Sengoku and early Edo periods.
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C.
Otomo
Otomo is a deadly, silent cyborg ninja assassin featured as one of the primary antagonists in the film RoboCop 3.
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D.
Arinori
Arinori was a given name of Mori Arinori, a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and reformer known for modernizing Japan’s education system.
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E.
Michinaga
Michinaga is the given name of Fujiwara no Michinaga, a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble who dominated imperial politics at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s influence.
- 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: Minamoto Target entity description: Minamoto was a powerful Japanese samurai clan that played a central role in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, producing several shoguns and shaping the rise of the shogunate.
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A.
Taira
Taira was a powerful samurai clan that dominated late Heian-period Japanese politics and warfare before its downfall in the Genpei War.
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B.
Hōjō
Hōjō was a powerful samurai clan that rose to prominence as feudal lords in Japan during the late Sengoku and early Edo periods.
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C.
Otomo
Otomo is a deadly, silent cyborg ninja assassin featured as one of the primary antagonists in the film RoboCop 3.
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D.
Arinori
Arinori was a given name of Mori Arinori, a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and reformer known for modernizing Japan’s education system.
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E.
Michinaga
Michinaga is the given name of Fujiwara no Michinaga, a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble who dominated imperial politics at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s influence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Minamoto
linked to: Minamoto
linked to: Minamoto