Yamashina-dera
E507902
Yamashina-dera was an early Buddhist temple in Japan that served as the predecessor and original site of the influential Kōfuku-ji temple associated with the powerful Fujiwara clan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamashina-dera canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4822190 — 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: Yamashina-dera Context triple: [Kōfuku-ji, foundedAs, Yamashina-dera]
-
A.
Ishiyama-dera
Ishiyama-dera is a historic Buddhist temple in Japan renowned for its autumn foliage, cultural treasures, and association with the author of The Tale of Genji.
-
B.
Fujiidera Temple
Fujiidera Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Fujiidera, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its association with the Thirty-three Kannon Pilgrimage and its revered statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon.
-
C.
Ryōzenji
Ryōzenji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, best known as the traditional starting point of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage.
-
D.
Zentsū-ji Temple
Zentsū-ji Temple is a major Shingon Buddhist temple in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, revered as the birthplace of the monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) and one of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
-
E.
Zenkō-ji Temple
Zenkō-ji Temple is a historic and highly revered Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, known as one of the country’s most important pilgrimage sites.
- 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: Yamashina-dera Target entity description: Yamashina-dera was an early Buddhist temple in Japan that served as the predecessor and original site of the influential Kōfuku-ji temple associated with the powerful Fujiwara clan.
-
A.
Ishiyama-dera
Ishiyama-dera is a historic Buddhist temple in Japan renowned for its autumn foliage, cultural treasures, and association with the author of The Tale of Genji.
-
B.
Fujiidera Temple
Fujiidera Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Fujiidera, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its association with the Thirty-three Kannon Pilgrimage and its revered statue of the Bodhisattva Kannon.
-
C.
Ryōzenji
Ryōzenji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, best known as the traditional starting point of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage.
-
D.
Zentsū-ji Temple
Zentsū-ji Temple is a major Shingon Buddhist temple in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, revered as the birthplace of the monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) and one of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
-
E.
Zenkō-ji Temple
Zenkō-ji Temple is a historic and highly revered Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, known as one of the country’s most important pilgrimage sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
ⓘ
historical religious site ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fujiwara clan
ⓘ
Hossō school ⓘ Nara Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Buddhism
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Japanese Buddhism
ⓘ
aristocratic temple culture ⓘ |
| function |
Buddhist ritual center
ⓘ
clan temple ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Asuka period
ⓘ
linked to:
Yamato period
early Nara period ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
development of Kōfuku-ji temple complex
ⓘ
rise of Fujiwara political influence ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kinai region
ⓘ
linked to:
Kinai
Yamashina ⓘ Yamashiro Province ⓘ |
| originalSiteOf | Kōfuku-ji ⓘ |
| patron | Fujiwara clan ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Kōfuku-ji ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| significance |
early power base of Fujiwara clan
ⓘ
predecessor of one of the Seven Great Temples of Nara ⓘ |
| status | no longer extant as major temple ⓘ |
| successor | Kōfuku-ji ⓘ |
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: Yamashina-dera Description of subject: Yamashina-dera was an early Buddhist temple in Japan that served as the predecessor and original site of the influential Kōfuku-ji temple associated with the powerful Fujiwara clan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.