Tokugawa Sen
E681286
Tokugawa Sen was a Japanese noblewoman of the early Edo period, known as the daughter of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and for her politically significant marriage into the Toyotomi clan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tokugawa | 1 |
| Tokugawa Sen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7317998 — 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: Tokugawa Sen Context triple: [Toyotomi Hideyori, spouse, Tokugawa Sen]
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A.
Tokugawa Yorinobu
Tokugawa Yorinobu was a powerful early Edo-period daimyō of the Tokugawa clan, best known as the first lord of the Kii Domain and a key figure in consolidating Tokugawa rule in western Japan.
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B.
Ōshima Yoshimasa
Ōshima Yoshimasa was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for his leadership during the First Sino-Japanese War, including commanding Japanese forces at the Battle of Seonghwan.
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C.
Tokugawa Yorifusa
Tokugawa Yorifusa was a prominent early Edo-period Japanese daimyō and founder of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan.
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D.
Ikeda Terumasa
Ikeda Terumasa was a prominent early Edo-period Japanese daimyo known for his major role in developing and fortifying Himeji Castle into its iconic form.
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E.
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa was a prominent Japanese statesman and internationalist leader of the early 20th century who played a key diplomatic role in fostering U.S.–Japan relations and supporting naval disarmament efforts.
- 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: Tokugawa Sen Target entity description: Tokugawa Sen was a Japanese noblewoman of the early Edo period, known as the daughter of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and for her politically significant marriage into the Toyotomi clan.
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A.
Tokugawa Yorinobu
Tokugawa Yorinobu was a powerful early Edo-period daimyō of the Tokugawa clan, best known as the first lord of the Kii Domain and a key figure in consolidating Tokugawa rule in western Japan.
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B.
Ōshima Yoshimasa
Ōshima Yoshimasa was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for his leadership during the First Sino-Japanese War, including commanding Japanese forces at the Battle of Seonghwan.
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C.
Tokugawa Yorifusa
Tokugawa Yorifusa was a prominent early Edo-period Japanese daimyō and founder of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan.
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D.
Ikeda Terumasa
Ikeda Terumasa was a prominent early Edo-period Japanese daimyo known for his major role in developing and fortifying Himeji Castle into its iconic form.
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E.
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa
Prince Iyesato Tokugawa was a prominent Japanese statesman and internationalist leader of the early 20th century who played a key diplomatic role in fostering U.S.–Japan relations and supporting naval disarmament efforts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Edo period person
ⓘ
Japanese noblewoman ⓘ daimyo wife ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Japan ⓘ |
| clan | Tokugawa clan ⓘ |
| clanByMarriage | Toyotomi clan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese culture ⓘ |
| era | Edo period ⓘ |
| familyName |
Tokugawa
ⓘ
linked to:
Tokugawa clan
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| father | Tokugawa Hidetada ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| grandfather | Tokugawa Ieyasu ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| mother | Oeyo ⓘ |
| nobleRank | kugyō-related family ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage into the Toyotomi clan ⓘ |
| position | political marriage partner between Tokugawa and Toyotomi clans ⓘ |
| relative | Tokugawa Ieyasu ⓘ |
| spouse | Toyotomi Hideyori ⓘ |
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: Tokugawa Sen Description of subject: Tokugawa Sen was a Japanese noblewoman of the early Edo period, known as the daughter of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and for her politically significant marriage into the Toyotomi clan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.