Tennō
E153012
Tennō is the Japanese term for the Emperor of Japan, regarded as the ceremonial and symbolic monarch and, in tradition, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tennō canonical | 18 |
| 天皇 | 2 |
| Daijō Tennō | 1 |
| Great King of Yamato | 1 |
| Heizei-tennō | 1 |
| Tenno (Emperor of Japan) | 1 |
| tennō (emperor of Japan) | 1 |
| 今上天皇 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T997130 — 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: Tennō Context triple: [Emperor Jimmu, title, Tennō]
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A.
Prince of Japan
The Prince of Japan is a hereditary title traditionally held by male members of the Japanese imperial family who stand in close relation to the reigning Emperor and perform official and ceremonial duties on behalf of the monarchy.
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B.
Jōkō
Jōkō is the Japanese honorific title traditionally given to a retired emperor who has abdicated the throne.
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C.
Emperor Daigo
Emperor Daigo was a 10th-century Japanese sovereign whose relatively stable and culturally vibrant reign is often regarded as a high point of the Heian-period imperial court.
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D.
Prince Chichibu
Prince Chichibu was a Japanese imperial prince, the second son of Emperor Taishō, known for his military career and role in pre-World War II Japan.
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E.
Emperor Kanmu
Emperor Kanmu was a Japanese emperor best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto), thereby inaugurating the Heian period and shaping classical Japanese court culture.
- 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: Tennō Target entity description: Tennō is the Japanese term for the Emperor of Japan, regarded as the ceremonial and symbolic monarch and, in tradition, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
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A.
Prince of Japan
The Prince of Japan is a hereditary title traditionally held by male members of the Japanese imperial family who stand in close relation to the reigning Emperor and perform official and ceremonial duties on behalf of the monarchy.
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B.
Jōkō
Jōkō is the Japanese honorific title traditionally given to a retired emperor who has abdicated the throne.
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C.
Emperor Daigo
Emperor Daigo was a 10th-century Japanese sovereign whose relatively stable and culturally vibrant reign is often regarded as a high point of the Heian-period imperial court.
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D.
Prince Chichibu
Prince Chichibu was a Japanese imperial prince, the second son of Emperor Taishō, known for his military career and role in pre-World War II Japan.
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E.
Emperor Kanmu
Emperor Kanmu was a Japanese emperor best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto), thereby inaugurating the Heian period and shaping classical Japanese court culture.
- 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: Tennō Description of subject: Tennō is the Japanese term for the Emperor of Japan, regarded as the ceremonial and symbolic monarch and, in tradition, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tenno (Emperor of Japan)
this entity surface form:
Great King of Yamato
this entity surface form:
Daijō Tennō
this entity surface form:
tennō (emperor of Japan)
this entity surface form:
天皇
this entity surface form:
Heizei-tennō