Udaijin (Minister of the Right)
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Udaijin (Minister of the Right) was one of the highest-ranking officials in Japan’s classical imperial government, serving as a chief minister directly under the emperor within the ritsuryō administrative system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Udaijin (Minister of the Right) canonical | 1 |
| 右大臣 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7090956 — 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: Udaijin (Minister of the Right) Context triple: [Daijō-kan (Council of State of Japan), hasPosition, Udaijin (Minister of the Right)]
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A.
Sadaijin (Minister of the Left)
Sadaijin (Minister of the Left) was one of the highest-ranking officials in Japan’s classical imperial government, serving as a chief minister alongside the Udaijin (Minister of the Right) in the ritsuryō administrative system.
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B.
Dainagon (Major Counsellor)
Dainagon (Major Counsellor) was a high-ranking aristocratic office in Japan’s imperial court, serving as a senior advisor involved in state administration and policy.
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C.
Daijō-kan (Council of State of Japan)
The Daijō-kan was the highest governing body of the early Meiji government in Japan, overseeing state administration before the establishment of the modern parliamentary system.
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D.
Ii Naosuke
Ii Naosuke was a powerful late-Edo period Japanese daimyō and tairō (chief minister) of the Tokugawa shogunate, known for opening Japan to foreign powers and for his assassination in the Sakurada Gate Incident of 1860.
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E.
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa is a neighborhood in Tokyo’s Kōtō ward known for its traditional shitamachi atmosphere, riverside parks, and growing reputation as a hub for art galleries and specialty coffee shops.
- 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: Udaijin (Minister of the Right) Target entity description: Udaijin (Minister of the Right) was one of the highest-ranking officials in Japan’s classical imperial government, serving as a chief minister directly under the emperor within the ritsuryō administrative system.
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A.
Sadaijin (Minister of the Left)
Sadaijin (Minister of the Left) was one of the highest-ranking officials in Japan’s classical imperial government, serving as a chief minister alongside the Udaijin (Minister of the Right) in the ritsuryō administrative system.
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B.
Dainagon (Major Counsellor)
Dainagon (Major Counsellor) was a high-ranking aristocratic office in Japan’s imperial court, serving as a senior advisor involved in state administration and policy.
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C.
Daijō-kan (Council of State of Japan)
The Daijō-kan was the highest governing body of the early Meiji government in Japan, overseeing state administration before the establishment of the modern parliamentary system.
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D.
Ii Naosuke
Ii Naosuke was a powerful late-Edo period Japanese daimyō and tairō (chief minister) of the Tokugawa shogunate, known for opening Japan to foreign powers and for his assassination in the Sakurada Gate Incident of 1860.
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E.
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa is a neighborhood in Tokyo’s Kōtō ward known for its traditional shitamachi atmosphere, riverside parks, and growing reputation as a hub for art galleries and specialty coffee shops.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
court title
ⓘ
government office ⓘ ministerial position ⓘ |
| administrativeSystem | ritsuryō ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Japanese imperial court
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial court of Japan (historically)
Yamato court ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fujiwara clan
ⓘ
aristocratic clans ⓘ |
| category |
Government of feudal Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
feudal Japan
Japanese imperial court ranks ⓘ Titles of national or ethnic leadership in Asia ⓘ |
| coordinateWith | Sadaijin ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| domainOf | court politics ⓘ |
| followedByInRank | Naidaijin ⓘ |
| governmentForm | imperial government ⓘ |
| hasGenderRestriction | typically male ⓘ |
| hasOppositeNumber | Sadaijin ⓘ |
| hasRank | one of the highest ministers of state ⓘ |
| hierarchicalRank | second among the three great ministers ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Kinai region
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansai region
|
| historicalStatus | largely ceremonial in later periods ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | Minister of the Right ⓘ |
| officeHolderClass | high-ranking nobility ⓘ |
| officeType | civil office ⓘ |
| partOf |
Daijō-kan
ⓘ
ritsuryō system ⓘ |
| positionHeldBy |
court noble
ⓘ
kuge ⓘ |
| precededByInRank | Daijō-daijin ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
advising the emperor on policy
ⓘ
assisting the emperor in state affairs ⓘ overseeing certain ministries ⓘ supervising central government administration ⓘ |
| seatOfGovernment |
Heian-kyō
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
Nara ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | imperial appointment ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Daijō-daijin
ⓘ
Emperor of Japan ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
Heian period
ⓘ
Nara period ⓘ classical Japan ⓘ |
| usedScript | kanji ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Japanese ⓘ |
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: Udaijin (Minister of the Right) Description of subject: Udaijin (Minister of the Right) was one of the highest-ranking officials in Japan’s classical imperial government, serving as a chief minister directly under the emperor within the ritsuryō administrative system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.