Emperor Taishō
E18484
Emperor Taishō was the 123rd emperor of Japan, whose reign from 1912 to 1926 marked a period of continued modernization and growing parliamentary democracy known as "Taishō democracy."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emperor Taishō canonical | 39 |
| Emperor Taisho | 7 |
| Empress Teimei | 1 |
| Taishō Tennō | 1 |
| 大正天皇 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T86463 — 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: Emperor Taishō Context triple: [Emperor Hirohito, father, Emperor Taishō]
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A.
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito was the Shōwa-era emperor of Japan who reigned during World War II and oversaw the country’s militarist expansion, defeat, and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
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B.
Akihito
Akihito is the former Emperor of Japan who abdicated in 2019, ending the Heisei era and becoming the first Japanese monarch to step down in over two centuries.
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C.
Naruhito
Naruhito is the Emperor of Japan and the symbolic head of state of the country.
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D.
Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino
Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino, is the younger brother and heir presumptive to Emperor Naruhito of Japan and a senior member of the Japanese imperial family.
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E.
Empress Masako
Empress Masako is the current Empress of Japan, a Harvard-educated former diplomat known for her international background and marriage to Emperor Naruhito.
- 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: Emperor Taishō Target entity description: Emperor Taishō was the 123rd emperor of Japan, whose reign from 1912 to 1926 marked a period of continued modernization and growing parliamentary democracy known as "Taishō democracy."
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A.
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito was the Shōwa-era emperor of Japan who reigned during World War II and oversaw the country’s militarist expansion, defeat, and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
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B.
Akihito
Akihito is the former Emperor of Japan who abdicated in 2019, ending the Heisei era and becoming the first Japanese monarch to step down in over two centuries.
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C.
Naruhito
Naruhito is the Emperor of Japan and the symbolic head of state of the country.
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D.
Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino
Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino, is the younger brother and heir presumptive to Emperor Naruhito of Japan and a senior member of the Japanese imperial family.
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E.
Empress Masako
Empress Masako is the current Empress of Japan, a Harvard-educated former diplomat known for her international background and marriage to Emperor Naruhito.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Emperor Taishō Description of subject: Emperor Taishō was the 123rd emperor of Japan, whose reign from 1912 to 1926 marked a period of continued modernization and growing parliamentary democracy known as "Taishō democracy."
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Empress Teimei
this entity surface form:
Emperor Taisho
this entity surface form:
Emperor Taisho
subject surface form:
Musashi Imperial Graveyard
this entity surface form:
Taishō Tennō
this entity surface form:
Emperor Taisho
this entity surface form:
Emperor Taisho
subject surface form:
Aoyama Palace
subject surface form:
Aoyama Palace
subject surface form:
Aoyama Palace
subject surface form:
Sokui no rei
this entity surface form:
Emperor Taisho
this entity surface form:
Emperor Taisho
subject surface form:
Tōgō Heihachirō
this entity surface form:
Emperor Taisho