Ashikaga clan
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The Ashikaga clan was a powerful samurai family that established and led Japan’s Muromachi shogunate, ruling the country as shoguns from the 14th to the 16th century.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashikaga shogunate | 9 |
| Ashikaga clan canonical | 2 |
| Ashikaga shogunate factions | 1 |
| Ashikaga shoguns | 1 |
| Muromachi shogunate rulers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2591614 — 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: Ashikaga clan Context triple: [Muromachi period, dominantClan, Ashikaga clan]
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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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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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Minamoto clan
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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Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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Uesugi clan
The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in 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: Ashikaga clan Target entity description: The Ashikaga clan was a powerful samurai family that established and led Japan’s Muromachi shogunate, ruling the country as shoguns from the 14th to the 16th century.
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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.
Minamoto clan
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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D.
Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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E.
Uesugi clan
The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
- 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: Ashikaga clan Description of subject: The Ashikaga clan was a powerful samurai family that established and led Japan’s Muromachi shogunate, ruling the country as shoguns from the 14th to the 16th century.
Referenced by (14)
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Ashikaga shogunate
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Ashikaga shogunate factions
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Muromachi shogunate rulers
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Ashikaga shogunate
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Ashikaga shogunate
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Ashikaga shoguns
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Ashikaga shogunate
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Ashikaga shogunate
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Ashikaga shogunate
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Ashikaga shogunate
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Ashikaga shogunate