Tsuwano Domain
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Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tsuwano Domain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3645728 — 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: Tsuwano Domain Context triple: [Nishi Amane, birthPlace, Tsuwano Domain]
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A.
Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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B.
Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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C.
Tosa Domain
Tosa Domain was a feudal han in Shikoku during Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Yamauchi clan and later known for producing influential Meiji-era political leaders.
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D.
Chōshū Domain
Chōshū Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu, Japan, centered in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, that played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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E.
Fujiyoshida
Fujiyoshida is a Japanese city in Yamanashi Prefecture, best known as a gateway to Mount Fuji and a popular base for climbers and tourists visiting the iconic volcano.
- 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: Tsuwano Domain Target entity description: Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
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A.
Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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B.
Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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C.
Tosa Domain
Tosa Domain was a feudal han in Shikoku during Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Yamauchi clan and later known for producing influential Meiji-era political leaders.
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D.
Chōshū Domain
Chōshū Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu, Japan, centered in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, that played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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E.
Fujiyoshida
Fujiyoshida is a Japanese city in Yamanashi Prefecture, best known as a gateway to Mount Fuji and a popular base for climbers and tourists visiting the iconic volcano.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Edo period domain
ⓘ
feudal domain ⓘ han ⓘ |
| abolishedBy |
Meiji oligarchy
ⓘ
surface form:
Meiji government
|
| abolishedIn | 1871 ⓘ |
| abolitionEvent | Abolition of the han system ⓘ |
| capital | Tsuwano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centeredOn |
Tsuwano
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tsuwano Castle ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | koku ⓘ |
| era |
Edo period
ⓘ
surface form:
early modern Japan
|
| governmentType | feudal ⓘ |
| hadCastle | Tsuwano Castle ⓘ |
| hasCastleTown | Tsuwano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCenter | castle town of Tsuwano ⓘ |
| historicalProvince | Iwami Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Chūgoku region
ⓘ
surface form:
Chūgoku region of Honshu
|
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chūgoku region
ⓘ
Honshu ⓘ Japanese archipelago ⓘ western Japan ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Japan
ⓘ
Shimane Prefecture, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlord | Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| period | Edo period ⓘ |
| politicalStructure | domain ruled by a daimyō ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | han system ⓘ |
| presentLocation |
Shimane Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tsuwano, Shimane Prefecture ⓘ |
| region |
San’in region
ⓘ
surface form:
San'in region
|
| status | under Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| subordination | to Edo bakufu ⓘ |
| successorAdministrativeUnit | Shimane Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfTerritory | fief ⓘ |
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: Tsuwano Domain Description of subject: Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.