Kōdō
E567849
Kōdō is the Lecture Hall of the historic Tōshōdai-ji Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, used for religious teachings and ceremonial gatherings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kōdō canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4982846 — 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: Kōdō Context triple: [Tōshōdai-ji, hasBuilding, Kōdō]
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A.
Kōgō
Kōgō is the Japanese term used to refer to the empress consort of Japan.
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B.
Gotō
Gotō is a Japanese surname borne by various notable figures in politics, business, and the arts.
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C.
Kamiyama
Kamiyama is a Japanese surname borne by various individuals, including artists, athletes, and public figures.
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D.
Takamikura
Takamikura is the ornate imperial throne used in Kyoto for the enthronement ceremonies of Japanese emperors.
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E.
Keiyo
Keiyo is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Keiyo people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.
- 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: Kōdō Target entity description: Kōdō is the Lecture Hall of the historic Tōshōdai-ji Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, used for religious teachings and ceremonial gatherings.
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A.
Kōgō
Kōgō is the Japanese term used to refer to the empress consort of Japan.
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B.
Gotō
Gotō is a Japanese surname borne by various notable figures in politics, business, and the arts.
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C.
Kamiyama
Kamiyama is a Japanese surname borne by various individuals, including artists, athletes, and public figures.
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D.
Takamikura
Takamikura is the ornate imperial throne used in Kyoto for the enthronement ceremonies of Japanese emperors.
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E.
Keiyo
Keiyo is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Keiyo people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple building
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lecture hall ⓘ religious building ⓘ |
| architecturalFunction | lecture hall ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Japanese Buddhism
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Tōshōdai-ji Buddhist temple ⓘ
linked to:
Tōshōdai-ji
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese Buddhist architecture ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Japan
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Nara ⓘ Nara Prefecture ⓘ Tōshōdai-ji ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Nara ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Kansai region ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Honshu ⓘ |
| nameInJapanese | 講堂 ⓘ |
| nameRomanization | Kōdō ⓘ |
| partOf | Tōshōdai-ji ⓘ |
| partOfComplex |
Tōshōdai-ji temple complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Tōshōdai-ji
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| primaryLanguageContext | Japanese ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Buddhist ceremonies
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ceremonial gatherings ⓘ lectures ⓘ religious teachings ⓘ |
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: Kōdō Description of subject: Kōdō is the Lecture Hall of the historic Tōshōdai-ji Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, used for religious teachings and ceremonial gatherings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.