Shōan Sōjun
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Shōan Sōjun was a Japanese tea master of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, known as a prominent disciple and successor within the lineage of Sen no Rikyū’s wabi-cha tea ceremony tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shōan Sōjun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6864540 — 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: Shōan Sōjun Context triple: [Sen no Rikyū, teacherOf, Shōan Sōjun]
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A.
Kuribayashi Taro
Kuribayashi Taro is the son of Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the famed commander of Japanese forces during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
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B.
Kobayakawa Hideaki
Kobayakawa Hideaki was a late Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō best known for his pivotal betrayal at the Battle of Sekigahara, which helped secure Tokugawa Ieyasu’s victory and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Katō Tomosaburō
Katō Tomosaburō was a prominent early 20th-century Japanese naval officer and statesman who rose to become a leading admiral and later served as Prime Minister of Japan.
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D.
Nogi Maresuke
Nogi Maresuke was a prominent Japanese general of the Meiji era, renowned for his leadership in the Russo-Japanese War and his embodiment of traditional samurai values.
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E.
Mutaguchi Renya
Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
- 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: Shōan Sōjun Target entity description: Shōan Sōjun was a Japanese tea master of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, known as a prominent disciple and successor within the lineage of Sen no Rikyū’s wabi-cha tea ceremony tradition.
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A.
Kuribayashi Taro
Kuribayashi Taro is the son of Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the famed commander of Japanese forces during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
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B.
Kobayakawa Hideaki
Kobayakawa Hideaki was a late Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō best known for his pivotal betrayal at the Battle of Sekigahara, which helped secure Tokugawa Ieyasu’s victory and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Katō Tomosaburō
Katō Tomosaburō was a prominent early 20th-century Japanese naval officer and statesman who rose to become a leading admiral and later served as Prime Minister of Japan.
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D.
Nogi Maresuke
Nogi Maresuke was a prominent Japanese general of the Meiji era, renowned for his leadership in the Russo-Japanese War and his embodiment of traditional samurai values.
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E.
Mutaguchi Renya
Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese tea master
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historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | Azuchi–Momoyama period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Japanese tea ceremony
NERFINISHED
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chanoyu ⓘ wabi-sabi aesthetics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese culture ⓘ |
| discipleOf | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
tea ceremony
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wabi-cha ⓘ |
| genre | tea ceremony ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Sen no Rikyū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| movement | wabi-cha tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
practice of wabi-cha tea ceremony
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role in the lineage of Sen no Rikyū ⓘ |
| occupation | tea master ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | successor in the lineage of Sen no Rikyū ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
Japanese aesthetics
ⓘ
tea culture in Japan ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Azuchi–Momoyama period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradition | Rikyū school of tea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shōan Sōjun Description of subject: Shōan Sōjun was a Japanese tea master of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, known as a prominent disciple and successor within the lineage of Sen no Rikyū’s wabi-cha tea ceremony tradition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.