Taira clan
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The Taira clan was a powerful samurai family that dominated late Heian-period Japanese court politics and warfare, ultimately clashing with rival Minamoto forces in the Genpei War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Taira clan canonical | 15 |
| Taira | 2 |
| Taira clan (claimed) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3020627 — 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: Taira clan Context triple: [Hōgen Rebellion, belligerent, Taira clan]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Fujiwara clan
The Fujiwara clan was a powerful and influential aristocratic family that dominated Japanese court politics for centuries, especially during the Heian period, through strategic marriages and regency positions.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Taira clan Target entity description: The Taira clan was a powerful samurai family that dominated late Heian-period Japanese court politics and warfare, ultimately clashing with rival Minamoto forces in the Genpei War.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Fujiwara clan
The Fujiwara clan was a powerful and influential aristocratic family that dominated Japanese court politics for centuries, especially during the Heian period, through strategic marriages and regency positions.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Taira clan Description of subject: The Taira clan was a powerful samurai family that dominated late Heian-period Japanese court politics and warfare, ultimately clashing with rival Minamoto forces in the Genpei War.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Taira
this entity surface form:
Taira clan (claimed)
subject surface form:
Tadahiko Taira
this entity surface form:
Taira