Empress Suiko
E595431
Empress Suiko was Japan’s first recorded empress regnant, known for promoting Buddhism and centralizing imperial authority during the Asuka period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Empress Suiko canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6402229 — 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: Empress Suiko Context triple: [Horyu-ji, foundedBy, Empress Suiko]
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A.
Empress Nara
Empress Nara was a Qing dynasty empress consort of the Qianlong Emperor, known for her mysterious fall from favor and the subsequent erasure of her status from official records.
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B.
Empress Jingū
Empress Jingū is a legendary Japanese consort and regent celebrated in myth and early chronicles for her supposed conquest of Korea and as a revered figure in Shinto tradition.
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Empress Shōshi
Empress Shōshi was a Heian-period Japanese imperial consort and cultural patron whose court became a major center of literature, famously including the author Murasaki Shikibu.
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D.
Empress Genmei
Empress Genmei was an early 8th-century Japanese empress known for commissioning the compilation of foundational texts like the Kojiki and for relocating the capital to Heijō-kyō (Nara).
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E.
Empress Kōjun
Empress Kōjun was the longtime consort of Emperor Hirohito and the mother of Emperor Akihito, serving as Japan’s empress during much of the Shōwa era.
- 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: Empress Suiko Target entity description: Empress Suiko was Japan’s first recorded empress regnant, known for promoting Buddhism and centralizing imperial authority during the Asuka period.
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A.
Empress Nara
Empress Nara was a Qing dynasty empress consort of the Qianlong Emperor, known for her mysterious fall from favor and the subsequent erasure of her status from official records.
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B.
Empress Jingū
Empress Jingū is a legendary Japanese consort and regent celebrated in myth and early chronicles for her supposed conquest of Korea and as a revered figure in Shinto tradition.
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C.
Empress Shōshi
Empress Shōshi was a Heian-period Japanese imperial consort and cultural patron whose court became a major center of literature, famously including the author Murasaki Shikibu.
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D.
Empress Genmei
Empress Genmei was an early 8th-century Japanese empress known for commissioning the compilation of foundational texts like the Kojiki and for relocating the capital to Heijō-kyō (Nara).
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E.
Empress Kōjun
Empress Kōjun was the longtime consort of Emperor Hirohito and the mother of Emperor Akihito, serving as Japan’s empress during much of the Shōwa era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Empress of Japan
ⓘ
female ruler ⓘ historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| acknowledgedAs | one of the earliest Buddhist monarchs of Japan ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Prince Shōtoku’s Buddhist reforms ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Yamato Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 554 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Shimanoyama Kofun ⓘ |
| capital | Asuka ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| deathYear | 628 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Yamato dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
Suiko era
ⓘ
linked to:
Suiko
|
| eraName | Suiko ⓘ |
| eraType | nengō (Japanese era name) ⓘ |
| father | Emperor Kinmei ⓘ |
| foreignRelations |
diplomatic missions to the Sui dynasty of China
ⓘ
relations with Korean kingdoms ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Suiko ⓘ |
| house | Imperial House of Japan ⓘ |
| implementedPolicy |
adoption of the Twelve Level Cap and Rank System
ⓘ
promulgation of the Seventeen-Article Constitution ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first recorded empress regnant of Japan
ⓘ
centralization of imperial authority ⓘ promotion of Buddhism in Japan ⓘ |
| language | Classical Japanese ⓘ |
| mother | Soga no Kitashihime ⓘ |
| nativeName | 推古天皇 ⓘ |
| period | Asuka period ⓘ |
| personalName | Toyomike Kashikiya Hime ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 33rd monarch of Japan ⓘ |
| predecessor | Emperor Sushun ⓘ |
| promoted | Buddhist temples and institutions ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Kojiki
ⓘ
Nihon Shoki ⓘ |
| regent |
Prince Shōtoku
ⓘ
Soga no Umako ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 628 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 593 ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| spouse | Emperor Bidatsu ⓘ |
| styleOfAddress | Empress Suiko ⓘ |
| successor | Emperor Jomei ⓘ |
| title | Tennō ⓘ |
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: Empress Suiko Description of subject: Empress Suiko was Japan’s first recorded empress regnant, known for promoting Buddhism and centralizing imperial authority during the Asuka period.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.