Genji
E626487
Genji is the Japanese era name (nengō) that marked a specific period of Emperor Kōmei’s reign in the late Edo period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Genji canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6897242 — 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: Genji Context triple: [Emperor Kōmei, eraNameUsedDuringReign, Genji]
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A.
Genji
Genji is a cybernetic ninja hero from Blizzard's Overwatch franchise, known for his agility, shuriken attacks, and deflecting abilities.
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B.
Ōtomo no Tabito
Ōtomo no Tabito was an early Nara-period Japanese courtier and poet best known for his refined Chinese-style verse and influential role in the development of classical Japanese poetry.
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C.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji is an 11th-century Japanese literary classic by Murasaki Shikibu, often considered the world’s first novel and a masterpiece of courtly romance and psychological insight.
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D.
Hikaru Genji
Hikaru Genji is the fictional nobleman and romantic protagonist of the classic Japanese literary work "The Tale of Genji," renowned for his beauty, sensitivity, and complex love affairs in the Heian court.
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E.
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Ōtomo no Yakamochi was an 8th-century Japanese court noble and one of the most prominent poets of the Nara period, traditionally regarded as a principal compiler of the Man'yōshū anthology.
- 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: Genji Target entity description: Genji is the Japanese era name (nengō) that marked a specific period of Emperor Kōmei’s reign in the late Edo period.
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A.
Genji
Genji is a cybernetic ninja hero from Blizzard's Overwatch franchise, known for his agility, shuriken attacks, and deflecting abilities.
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B.
Ōtomo no Tabito
Ōtomo no Tabito was an early Nara-period Japanese courtier and poet best known for his refined Chinese-style verse and influential role in the development of classical Japanese poetry.
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C.
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji is an 11th-century Japanese literary classic by Murasaki Shikibu, often considered the world’s first novel and a masterpiece of courtly romance and psychological insight.
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D.
Hikaru Genji
Hikaru Genji is the fictional nobleman and romantic protagonist of the classic Japanese literary work "The Tale of Genji," renowned for his beauty, sensitivity, and complex love affairs in the Heian court.
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E.
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Ōtomo no Yakamochi was an 8th-century Japanese court noble and one of the most prominent poets of the Nara period, traditionally regarded as a principal compiler of the Man'yōshū anthology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era name
ⓘ
nengō ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
imperial court of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial court of Japan (historically)
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| country | Japan ⓘ |
| eraOf | Emperor Kōmei ⓘ |
| follows | Keiō ⓘ |
| historicalContext | final years of the Edo period ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | late Edo period ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Genji (源治) ⓘ |
| precedes |
Meiji
ⓘ
linked to:
Meiji era
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| typeOfReignMarker | era name ⓘ |
| usedFor | year designation in Japan ⓘ |
| usedIn | Japanese calendar ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kanji ⓘ |
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: Genji Description of subject: Genji is the Japanese era name (nengō) that marked a specific period of Emperor Kōmei’s reign in the late Edo period.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.