Rijō
E691528
Rijō is the Japanese feudal-era castle in Hiroshima, historically the seat of the powerful Hiroshima Domain and a notable example of a flatland castle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rijō canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7634908 — 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: Rijō Context triple: [Hiroshima Castle, alsoKnownAs, Rijō]
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A.
Ryōtsu
Ryōtsu was a former city on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, known for its coastal setting and later incorporation into the city of Sado.
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B.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
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C.
Ichigaya
Ichigaya is a central Tokyo district known for its major railway station, government and educational institutions, and proximity to the Imperial Palace area.
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D.
Narusawa
Narusawa is a village in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, located in the scenic Fuji Five Lakes region near Mount Fuji.
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E.
Keiyo
Keiyo is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Keiyo people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.
- 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: Rijō Target entity description: Rijō is the Japanese feudal-era castle in Hiroshima, historically the seat of the powerful Hiroshima Domain and a notable example of a flatland castle.
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A.
Ryōtsu
Ryōtsu was a former city on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, known for its coastal setting and later incorporation into the city of Sado.
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B.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
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C.
Ichigaya
Ichigaya is a central Tokyo district known for its major railway station, government and educational institutions, and proximity to the Imperial Palace area.
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D.
Narusawa
Narusawa is a village in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, located in the scenic Fuji Five Lakes region near Mount Fuji.
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E.
Keiyo
Keiyo is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Keiyo people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese castle
ⓘ
flatland castle ⓘ hirayama-style castle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Carp Castle
ⓘ
Hiroshima Castle ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Azuchi–Momoyama castle architecture ⓘ |
| builtBy | Mōri clan ⓘ |
| builtFor | Mōri Terumoto ⓘ |
| cityDevelopedAround | Hiroshima ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 1599 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1589 ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currentUse |
history museum
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ |
| destroyedInEvent | atomic bombing of Hiroshima ⓘ |
| destructionDate | 1945-08-06 ⓘ |
| feature |
baileys
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moats ⓘ stone walls ⓘ tenshu (main keep) ⓘ |
| garrisonedBy | samurai retainers of the Asano clan ⓘ |
| governedRegion |
Aki Province
NERFINISHED
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Bingo Province ⓘ |
| hasExhibit |
displays on Hiroshima Castle history
ⓘ
displays on pre-war Hiroshima ⓘ samurai arms and armor ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | designated historic site by Japan ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
ⓘ
Edo period ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Ota River ⓘ |
| mainKeepDestroyed | 1945 ⓘ |
| nativeName |
広島城
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linked to:
Hiroshima Castle
|
| nativeNameLanguage | ja ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hiroshima Castle ruins historic site
ⓘ
linked to:
Hiroshima Castle
|
| reconstructedAs | concrete tenshu ⓘ |
| reconstructionDate | 1958 ⓘ |
| roofStyle | traditional Japanese ⓘ |
| significance |
notable example of a flatland castle in Japan
ⓘ
symbol of Hiroshima’s feudal-era history ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | castle town of Hiroshima (historically) ⓘ |
| theme |
history of Hiroshima
ⓘ
samurai culture ⓘ |
| tourismRegion | Chūgoku region ⓘ |
| wasSeatOf |
Asano clan
ⓘ
Hiroshima Domain ⓘ |
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: Rijō Description of subject: Rijō is the Japanese feudal-era castle in Hiroshima, historically the seat of the powerful Hiroshima Domain and a notable example of a flatland castle.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.