Man’en
E626485
Man’en was a short Japanese era of the late Edo period that followed Ansei and preceded Bunkyū during the reign of Emperor Kōmei.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Man’en canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6897240 — 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: Man’en Context triple: [Emperor Kōmei, eraNameUsedDuringReign, Man’en]
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A.
Maonan
The Maonan are a small ethnic minority group in southern China known for their distinct Kam–Sui language, traditional rice farming, and rich folk customs.
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B.
Niiname-sai
Niiname-sai is a traditional Shinto harvest festival in Japan during which the emperor offers newly harvested rice to the deities and partakes of it in a solemn thanksgiving rite.
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C.
Miyazya
Miyazya is one of the spring months in the Ethiopian calendar, roughly corresponding to April in the Gregorian calendar.
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D.
Asago
Asago is a city in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery, historic castle ruins, and hot spring resorts.
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E.
Gamosa
Gamosa is a traditional Assamese handwoven cotton cloth, typically white with red borders and motifs, symbolizing respect, cultural identity, and social bonding in Assam.
- 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: Man’en Target entity description: Man’en was a short Japanese era of the late Edo period that followed Ansei and preceded Bunkyū during the reign of Emperor Kōmei.
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A.
Maonan
The Maonan are a small ethnic minority group in southern China known for their distinct Kam–Sui language, traditional rice farming, and rich folk customs.
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B.
Niiname-sai
Niiname-sai is a traditional Shinto harvest festival in Japan during which the emperor offers newly harvested rice to the deities and partakes of it in a solemn thanksgiving rite.
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C.
Miyazya
Miyazya is one of the spring months in the Ethiopian calendar, roughly corresponding to April in the Gregorian calendar.
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D.
Asago
Asago is a city in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery, historic castle ruins, and hot spring resorts.
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E.
Gamosa
Gamosa is a traditional Assamese handwoven cotton cloth, typically white with red borders and motifs, symbolizing respect, cultural identity, and social bonding in Assam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era
ⓘ
nengō ⓘ |
| calendarType | Japanese lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| capitalCityDuringEra | Edo ⓘ |
| chronologySystem | Japanese era name system (gengō / nengō) ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| emperor | Emperor Kōmei ⓘ |
| endYear | 1861 ⓘ |
| eraLength | short era ⓘ |
| eraNameRomanization | Man’en ⓘ |
| eraNameWrittenInKanji | 万延 ⓘ |
| follows | Ansei ⓘ |
| governmentType | Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Bakumatsu
ⓘ
linked to:
Bakumatsu period reforms
|
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
late Edo period
ⓘ
linked to:
Bakumatsu period
|
| namedAfter | phrase from classical Chinese literature ⓘ |
| partOf | Edo period ⓘ |
| precedes | Bunkyū ⓘ |
| preModernJapaneseEraSequence | between Ansei and Bunkyū ⓘ |
| reignOf | Emperor Kōmei ⓘ |
| sovereignType | Emperor of Japan ⓘ |
| startYear | 1860 ⓘ |
| usedFor | dating years in Japan ⓘ |
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: Man’en Description of subject: Man’en was a short Japanese era of the late Edo period that followed Ansei and preceded Bunkyū during the reign of Emperor Kōmei.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.