Toyotomi clan
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The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Toyotomi clan canonical | 64 |
| Hashiba (Toyotomi) family | 1 |
| Toyotomi administration | 1 |
| Toyotomi coalition army | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1371331 — 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: Toyotomi clan Context triple: [Toyotomi Hideyoshi, clanFounded, Toyotomi clan]
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A.
Higashikuni-no-miya family
The Higashikuni-no-miya family was a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family, established in the early 20th century and notable for its close ties to the main imperial line.
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B.
Nikai faction
The Nikai faction is a prominent conservative intra-party group within Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, associated with veteran politician Toshihiro Nikai and known for its strong organizational influence and pro-business stance.
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C.
Takamado family
The Takamado family is a branch of the Japanese Imperial Family descended from Prince Takamado, known for its active engagement in cultural, charitable, and international goodwill activities.
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D.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a preeminent 16th-century Japanese daimyo and military leader who unified Japan after a long period of civil war and laid the foundations for the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate was the feudal military government that ruled Japan from the early 17th to the mid-19th century, overseeing a long period of peace, isolation, and strict social order.
- 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: Toyotomi clan Target entity description: The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
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A.
Higashikuni-no-miya family
The Higashikuni-no-miya family was a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family, established in the early 20th century and notable for its close ties to the main imperial line.
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B.
Nikai faction
The Nikai faction is a prominent conservative intra-party group within Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, associated with veteran politician Toshihiro Nikai and known for its strong organizational influence and pro-business stance.
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C.
Takamado family
The Takamado family is a branch of the Japanese Imperial Family descended from Prince Takamado, known for its active engagement in cultural, charitable, and international goodwill activities.
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D.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a preeminent 16th-century Japanese daimyo and military leader who unified Japan after a long period of civil war and laid the foundations for the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate was the feudal military government that ruled Japan from the early 17th to the mid-19th century, overseeing a long period of peace, isolation, and strict social order.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Toyotomi clan Description of subject: The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Toyotomi clan
linked to: Toyotomi clan
linked to: Toyotomi clan