Minamoto clan
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The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minamoto clan canonical | 21 |
| Minamoto | 4 |
| Genji clan | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1644780 — 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: Minamoto clan Context triple: [Hachiman, patronOf, Minamoto clan]
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A.
Toyotomi clan
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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B.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Taira no Kiyomori
Taira no Kiyomori was a powerful 12th-century Japanese warlord and head of the Taira clan who briefly established samurai dominance over the imperial court, setting the stage for the rise of military rule in Japan.
- 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: Minamoto clan Target entity description: The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
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A.
Toyotomi clan
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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B.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Taira no Kiyomori
Taira no Kiyomori was a powerful 12th-century Japanese warlord and head of the Taira clan who briefly established samurai dominance over the imperial court, setting the stage for the rise of military rule in Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Minamoto clan Description of subject: The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Genji clan
this entity surface form:
Minamoto
this entity surface form:
Minamoto
this entity surface form:
Genji clan
this entity surface form:
Minamoto
this entity surface form:
Minamoto