Emperor Ōjin
E186145
Emperor Ōjin is a semi-legendary early Japanese emperor who is traditionally identified with the Shinto war god Hachiman and venerated as a deified ancestral figure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emperor Ōjin canonical | 13 |
| 応神天皇 | 3 |
| Emperor Ōjin (as a kami) | 1 |
| Emperor Ōjin (traditional attribution) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1644766 — 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 Ōjin Context triple: [Hachiman, associatedWith, Emperor Ōjin]
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A.
Emperor Jimmu
Emperor Jimmu is the legendary first emperor of Japan, traditionally regarded as the mythic founder of the Japanese imperial line.
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B.
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.
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C.
Tennō
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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D.
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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E.
Takehaya Susanoo no Mikoto
Takehaya Susanoo no Mikoto is a major storm and sea deity in Japanese mythology, known from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki for his tumultuous behavior, exile from heaven, and slaying of the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi.
- 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 Ōjin Target entity description: Emperor Ōjin is a semi-legendary early Japanese emperor who is traditionally identified with the Shinto war god Hachiman and venerated as a deified ancestral figure.
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A.
Emperor Jimmu
Emperor Jimmu is the legendary first emperor of Japan, traditionally regarded as the mythic founder of the Japanese imperial line.
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B.
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.
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C.
Tennō
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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D.
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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E.
Takehaya Susanoo no Mikoto
Takehaya Susanoo no Mikoto is a major storm and sea deity in Japanese mythology, known from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki for his tumultuous behavior, exile from heaven, and slaying of the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emperor of Japan
ⓘ
Shinto kami ⓘ deified person ⓘ semi-legendary figure ⓘ |
| associatedText |
Kojiki
ⓘ
Nihon Shoki ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yamato dynasty
ⓘ
military protection ⓘ protection of the state ⓘ samurai class ⓘ |
| birthStatus | semi-legendary ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Habikino, Osaka
ⓘ
Konda Gobyōyama Kofun ⓘ |
| category |
Japanese mythology
ⓘ
Legendary Emperors of Japan ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Jimmu
Shinto deities ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| cultCenter |
Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū
ⓘ
linked to:
Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū ⓘ
linked to:
Tsurugaoka Hachimangū
Usa Hachiman-gū ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| deifiedAs |
kami of archery
ⓘ
kami of war ⓘ |
| domain | Yamato Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Yamato ⓘ |
| era | Kofun period ⓘ |
| father | Emperor Chūai ⓘ |
| historicity |
disputed
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semi-legendary ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Tennō ⓘ |
| identifiedWith | Hachiman ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| mother | Empress Jingū ⓘ |
| position | 15th Emperor of Japan ⓘ |
| posthumousName |
Ōjin
ⓘ
Ōjin-tennō ⓘ |
| predecessor | Emperor Chūai ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| roleInReligion |
ancestral deity
ⓘ
protective deity ⓘ war god ⓘ |
| scriptOfName | kanji ⓘ |
| successor | Emperor Nintoku ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
Hachiman
ⓘ
ancestral figure ⓘ imperial ancestor ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Shinto practitioners
ⓘ
imperial family ⓘ samurai ⓘ |
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 Ōjin Description of subject: Emperor Ōjin is a semi-legendary early Japanese emperor who is traditionally identified with the Shinto war god Hachiman and venerated as a deified ancestral figure.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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