Chōshū Domain
E150960
Chōshū Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu, Japan, centered in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, that played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chōshū Domain canonical | 16 |
| 長州藩 | 3 |
| Chōshū Domain leadership | 2 |
| Chōshū domain | 2 |
| Hagi, Chōshū Domain | 2 |
| Choshu Domain | 1 |
| Chōshū Domain activists | 1 |
| Chōshū Domain samurai tradition | 1 |
| Chōshū clan | 1 |
| 長州藩政府 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1072464 — 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: Chōshū Domain Context triple: [Terauchi Masatake, placeOfBirth, Chōshū Domain]
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A.
Higashikuni
Higashikuni is a former Japanese princely house and branch of the Imperial Family, established in the Meiji era and known for its close ties to the main imperial line.
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B.
Shinano
Shinano was a Japanese World War II aircraft carrier, originally laid down as a Yamato-class battleship and notable for being the largest carrier ever sunk in combat.
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C.
Higashi Shina Kai
Higashi Shina Kai is the Japanese name for the East China Sea, a marginal sea located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula.
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D.
Gifu
Gifu is a city in central Japan that serves as the capital of Gifu Prefecture, known for its historic cormorant fishing on the Nagara River and its strategic location in the Chūbu region.
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E.
Kaga Province
Kaga Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for its wealth, powerful feudal domain, and rich cultural traditions.
- 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: Chōshū Domain Target entity description: Chōshū Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu, Japan, centered in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, that played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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A.
Higashikuni
Higashikuni is a former Japanese princely house and branch of the Imperial Family, established in the Meiji era and known for its close ties to the main imperial line.
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B.
Shinano
Shinano was a Japanese World War II aircraft carrier, originally laid down as a Yamato-class battleship and notable for being the largest carrier ever sunk in combat.
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C.
Higashi Shina Kai
Higashi Shina Kai is the Japanese name for the East China Sea, a marginal sea located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula.
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D.
Gifu
Gifu is a city in central Japan that serves as the capital of Gifu Prefecture, known for its historic cormorant fishing on the Nagara River and its strategic location in the Chūbu region.
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E.
Kaga Province
Kaga Province was a historical region of Japan located in what is now southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for its wealth, powerful feudal domain, and rich cultural traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Chōshū Domain Description of subject: Chōshū Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu, Japan, centered in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, that played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hagi, Chōshū Domain
this entity surface form:
Chōshū Domain samurai tradition
this entity surface form:
Hagi, Chōshū Domain
this entity surface form:
Chōshū Domain leadership
this entity surface form:
Chōshū domain
subject surface form:
Yamaguchi Prefecture
this entity surface form:
Chōshū Domain leadership
this entity surface form:
Chōshū Domain activists
this entity surface form:
Choshu Domain
this entity surface form:
Chōshū domain
this entity surface form:
Chōshū clan