To-ji Temple
E404376
Buddhist temple
Historic Monument of Ancient Kyoto
Shingon Buddhist temple
UNESCO World Heritage Site
To-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its five-story pagoda and its deep association with the monk Kobo Daishi and Shingon Buddhism.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tō-ji Temple | 3 |
| To-ji Temple canonical | 1 |
| To-ji temple administration | 1 |
| To-ji temple complex | 1 |
| Tō-ji temple complex | 1 |
| Tō-ji temple grounds | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3568706 — 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: To-ji Temple Context triple: [Kobo Daishi, associatedWith, To-ji Temple]
-
A.
Tenryu-ji Temple
Tenryu-ji Temple is a major Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic landscape garden and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
-
B.
Gotokuji Temple
Gotokuji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo famed as the birthplace of the beckoning cat (maneki-neko) legend and its thousands of cat figurines.
-
C.
Sengaku-ji Temple
Sengaku-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo best known as the burial site of the Forty-seven Ronin, a famous group of samurai celebrated in Japanese history and culture.
-
D.
Senso-ji Temple
Senso-ji Temple is Tokyo’s oldest and most famous Buddhist temple, renowned for its iconic Kaminarimon gate and bustling Nakamise shopping street.
-
E.
Zojo-ji Temple
Zojo-ji Temple is a historic Jodo Buddhist temple in central Tokyo, known for its grand main gate, cultural heritage, and scenic setting near Tokyo Tower.
- 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: To-ji Temple Target entity description: To-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its five-story pagoda and its deep association with the monk Kobo Daishi and Shingon Buddhism.
-
A.
Tenryu-ji Temple
Tenryu-ji Temple is a major Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic landscape garden and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
-
B.
Gotokuji Temple
Gotokuji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo famed as the birthplace of the beckoning cat (maneki-neko) legend and its thousands of cat figurines.
-
C.
Sengaku-ji Temple
Sengaku-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo best known as the burial site of the Forty-seven Ronin, a famous group of samurai celebrated in Japanese history and culture.
-
D.
Senso-ji Temple
Senso-ji Temple is Tokyo’s oldest and most famous Buddhist temple, renowned for its iconic Kaminarimon gate and bustling Nakamise shopping street.
-
E.
Zojo-ji Temple
Zojo-ji Temple is a historic Jodo Buddhist temple in central Tokyo, known for its grand main gate, cultural heritage, and scenic setting near Tokyo Tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: To-ji Temple Description of subject: To-ji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its five-story pagoda and its deep association with the monk Kobo Daishi and Shingon Buddhism.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: To-ji Temple
linked to: To-ji Temple
linked to: To-ji Temple
linked to: To-ji Temple
linked to: To-ji Temple
linked to: To-ji Temple