Tokugawa Hidetada
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Tokugawa Hidetada was the second shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, who consolidated his father Ieyasu’s rule and oversaw the early Edo period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tokugawa Hidetada canonical | 37 |
| 徳川秀忠 | 2 |
| Hidetada | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1453229 — 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 Hidetada Context triple: [Siege of Osaka, commander, Tokugawa Hidetada]
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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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B.
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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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.
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu was the short-lived son and heir of Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the late Sengoku period.
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E.
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.
- 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 Hidetada Target entity description: Tokugawa Hidetada was the second shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, who consolidated his father Ieyasu’s rule and oversaw the early Edo period.
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A.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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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B.
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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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.
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu
Toyotomi Tsurumatsu was the short-lived son and heir of Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the late Sengoku period.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Hidetada Description of subject: Tokugawa Hidetada was the second shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, who consolidated his father Ieyasu’s rule and oversaw the early Edo period.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tokugawa Hidetada
linked to: Tokugawa Hidetada
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