Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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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.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi canonical | 49 |
| Hashiba Hideyoshi | 2 |
| Hideyoshi | 1 |
| Toyotomi | 1 |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi (as de facto ruler of Japan) | 1 |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi (daimyo and unifier of Japan) | 1 |
| 太閤 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235007 — 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: Toyotomi Hideyoshi Context triple: [Osaka Castle, builtBy, Toyotomi Hideyoshi]
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A.
Masaharu Homma
Masaharu Homma was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the invasion of the Philippines during World War II and later being held responsible for the Bataan Death March.
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B.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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C.
Yamamoto
Yamamoto is a Japanese surname most famously associated with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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D.
Nobutake Kondō
Nobutake Kondō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played major command roles in key Pacific War engagements, including the Guadalcanal campaign and other operations alongside the main carrier forces.
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E.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
- 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: Toyotomi Hideyoshi Target entity description: 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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A.
Masaharu Homma
Masaharu Homma was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the invasion of the Philippines during World War II and later being held responsible for the Bataan Death March.
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B.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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C.
Yamamoto
Yamamoto is a Japanese surname most famously associated with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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D.
Nobutake Kondō
Nobutake Kondō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played major command roles in key Pacific War engagements, including the Guadalcanal campaign and other operations alongside the main carrier forces.
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E.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Toyotomi Hideyoshi Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hideyoshi
this entity surface form:
Toyotomi
this entity surface form:
Hashiba Hideyoshi
this entity surface form:
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (as de facto ruler of Japan)
this entity surface form:
太閤
this entity surface form:
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (daimyo and unifier of Japan)