Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan during the long period of peace and stability known as the Edo period (1603–1868).
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tokugawa Ieyasu canonical | 42 |
| Ieyasu Tokugawa (role) | 1 |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu became de facto ruler of Japan | 1 |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu-ko | 1 |
| 徳川家康 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1371330 — 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: Tokugawa Ieyasu Context triple: [Toyotomi Hideyoshi, successorInNationalRule, Tokugawa Ieyasu]
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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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B.
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga was a powerful 16th-century Japanese daimyo who initiated the unification of Japan through military conquest and political innovation during the Sengoku period.
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Prince Iyesato Tokugawa
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa was a prominent Japanese statesman and internationalist leader of the early 20th century who played a key diplomatic role in fostering U.S.–Japan relations and supporting naval disarmament efforts.
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D.
Ugaki Kazushige
Ugaki Kazushige was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a prominent imperial administrator during Japan’s pre-World War II expansion.
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E.
Minamoto no Yoritomo
Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and first shogun of Japan’s Kamakura shogunate, establishing the country’s first military government in the late 12th century.
- 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: Tokugawa Ieyasu Target entity description: Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan during the long period of peace and stability known as the Edo period (1603–1868).
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A.
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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B.
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga was a powerful 16th-century Japanese daimyo who initiated the unification of Japan through military conquest and political innovation during the Sengoku period.
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C.
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa was a prominent Japanese statesman and internationalist leader of the early 20th century who played a key diplomatic role in fostering U.S.–Japan relations and supporting naval disarmament efforts.
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D.
Ugaki Kazushige
Ugaki Kazushige was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a prominent imperial administrator during Japan’s pre-World War II expansion.
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E.
Minamoto no Yoritomo
Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and first shogun of Japan’s Kamakura shogunate, establishing the country’s first military government in the late 12th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Tokugawa Ieyasu Description of subject: Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan during the long period of peace and stability known as the Edo period (1603–1868).
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ieyasu Tokugawa (role)
this entity surface form:
徳川家康
this entity surface form:
Tokugawa Ieyasu-ko
this entity surface form:
Tokugawa Ieyasu became de facto ruler of Japan
subject surface form:
Shizuoka City
subject surface form:
Sengaku-ji
subject surface form:
Yoshii Toranaga (Shōgun 2024)