Yakami-hime
E578896
Yakami-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology known as a consort of the deity Ōkuninushi and as a figure in the Izumo cycle of legends.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ichikishimahime | 2 |
| Yakami-hime canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6240781 — 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: Yakami-hime Context triple: [Ōkuninushi, spouse, Yakami-hime]
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A.
Tamayori-hime
Tamayori-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, often associated with water and the sea, revered as the mother of Japan’s legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
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B.
Himegami
Himegami is a Shinto deity venerated in Japan, associated with sacred shrines and traditional religious worship.
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C.
Princess Kaguya
Princess Kaguya is the moon princess from the classic Japanese folktale "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter," renowned as one of Japan’s oldest and most famous literary works.
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D.
Lady Fujitsubo
Lady Fujitsubo is a noblewoman in The Tale of Genji whose beauty and forbidden relationship with Prince Genji drive much of the novel’s emotional and political drama.
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E.
Yodo-dono
Yodo-dono was a prominent Japanese noblewoman and political figure of the late Sengoku period, best known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s consort and the mother of his heir, Toyotomi Hideyori.
- 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: Yakami-hime Target entity description: Yakami-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology known as a consort of the deity Ōkuninushi and as a figure in the Izumo cycle of legends.
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A.
Tamayori-hime
Tamayori-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, often associated with water and the sea, revered as the mother of Japan’s legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
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B.
Himegami
Himegami is a Shinto deity venerated in Japan, associated with sacred shrines and traditional religious worship.
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C.
Princess Kaguya
Princess Kaguya is the moon princess from the classic Japanese folktale "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter," renowned as one of Japan’s oldest and most famous literary works.
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D.
Lady Fujitsubo
Lady Fujitsubo is a noblewoman in The Tale of Genji whose beauty and forbidden relationship with Prince Genji drive much of the novel’s emotional and political drama.
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E.
Yodo-dono
Yodo-dono was a prominent Japanese noblewoman and political figure of the late Sengoku period, best known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s consort and the mother of his heir, Toyotomi Hideyori.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
goddess
ⓘ
kami ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn | legends of Izumo Province ⓘ |
| associatedRegion | Izumo ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Izumo cycle of legends
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marriage themes in mythology ⓘ Ōkuninushi ⓘ |
| consortOf | Ōkuninushi ⓘ |
| culture |
Japanese mythology
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Shinto ⓘ |
| domain | myth and legend ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasType |
deity
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female deity ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole |
consort of Ōkuninushi
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figure in the Izumo cycle ⓘ |
| nameInJapanese | 八上比売 ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | participant in divine marriage tales ⓘ |
| partOf |
Japanese mythological pantheon
ⓘ
Shinto pantheon ⓘ
linked to:
Shinto
|
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| spouse | Ōkuninushi ⓘ |
| writtenWithKanji | 八上比売 ⓘ |
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: Yakami-hime Description of subject: Yakami-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology known as a consort of the deity Ōkuninushi and as a figure in the Izumo cycle of legends.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yakami-hime
linked to: Yakami-hime