Late Hōjō clan
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The Late Hōjō clan was a powerful samurai family that dominated much of the Kantō region during Japan’s Sengoku period until its defeat by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Later Hōjō clan | 4 |
| Hōjō clan | 1 |
| Hōjō clan of Odawara | 1 |
| Late Hōjō clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6864395 — 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: Late Hōjō clan Context triple: [Odawara campaign, mainBelligerent, Late Hōjō clan]
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A.
Uesugi clan
The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
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B.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
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D.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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E.
Asano clan
The Asano clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Edo period, best known for its role in the historical incident of the Forty-seven rōnin.
- 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: Late Hōjō clan Target entity description: The Late Hōjō clan was a powerful samurai family that dominated much of the Kantō region during Japan’s Sengoku period until its defeat by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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A.
Uesugi clan
The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
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B.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
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D.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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E.
Asano clan
The Asano clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Edo period, best known for its role in the historical incident of the Forty-seven rōnin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
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samurai clan ⓘ |
| activeDuring | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Go-Hōjō clan
NERFINISHED
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Odawara Hōjō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| claimedDescentFrom | Kamakura Hōjō clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clanNameKanji | 後北条氏 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | three scales (Mitsu-uroko) crest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controlledProvince |
Izu Province
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Musashi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Sagami Province NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Awa Province (Kazusa-Awa region) ⓘ parts of Kōzuke Province ⓘ parts of Shimotsuke Province ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| defeatedBy | Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolvedAfter | Siege of Odawara (1590) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endDate | 1590 ⓘ |
| era | Azuchi–Momoyama period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Hōjō Sōun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Hōjō Sōun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyEvent |
Battle of Kawagoe (1545–1546)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Siege of Odawara (1590) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastLeader | Hōjō Ujinao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCastle | Odawara Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRole | regional hegemon in Kantō ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hōjō clan (Kamakura) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Hōjō Sōun
NERFINISHED
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Hōjō Ujimasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Hōjō Ujinao NERFINISHED ⓘ Hōjō Ujitsuna NERFINISHED ⓘ Hōjō Ujiyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent |
Satake clan
NERFINISHED
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Satomi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Takeda clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyotomi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Uesugi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus |
daimyō
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warlord family ⓘ |
| powerBase |
Kantō region
NERFINISHED
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Odawara NERFINISHED ⓘ Sagami Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ise clan (as family origin) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
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Shinto ⓘ |
| socialClass |
buke
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samurai ⓘ |
| startDate | late 15th century ⓘ |
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: Late Hōjō clan Description of subject: The Late Hōjō clan was a powerful samurai family that dominated much of the Kantō region during Japan’s Sengoku period until its defeat by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hōjō clan of Odawara
this entity surface form:
Hōjō clan
this entity surface form:
Later Hōjō clan
this entity surface form:
Later Hōjō clan