Minamoto no Mitsunaka
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Minamoto no Mitsunaka was a prominent 10th-century Japanese samurai and courtier who helped establish the political and military influence of the Minamoto clan during the Heian period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minamoto no Mitsunaka canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7996816 — 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: Minamoto no Mitsunaka Context triple: [Minamoto clan, notableMember, Minamoto no Mitsunaka]
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A.
Minamoto no Tameyoshi
Minamoto no Tameyoshi was a late Heian-period samurai leader and head of the Minamoto clan, known for his role in early conflicts that foreshadowed the rise of samurai rule in Japan.
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B.
Minamoto no Noriyori
Minamoto no Noriyori was a late Heian-period Japanese samurai commander of the Minamoto clan who played a key military role in the Genpei War against the Taira.
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C.
Minamoto no Tsunemoto
Minamoto no Tsunemoto was a 10th-century Japanese courtier and warrior of the early Minamoto samurai lineage, known as an ancestor of the Seiwa Genji branch that later produced powerful shogunal families.
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D.
Fujiwara no Michitaka
Fujiwara no Michitaka was a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble and regent who led the Fujiwara clan before his more famous younger brother Fujiwara no Michinaga.
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E.
Minamoto no Yoriyoshi
Minamoto no Yoriyoshi was an influential 11th-century samurai leader and military commander of the Minamoto clan, best known for his role in the Former Nine Years' War in northern Japan.
- 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: Minamoto no Mitsunaka Target entity description: Minamoto no Mitsunaka was a prominent 10th-century Japanese samurai and courtier who helped establish the political and military influence of the Minamoto clan during the Heian period.
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A.
Minamoto no Tameyoshi
Minamoto no Tameyoshi was a late Heian-period samurai leader and head of the Minamoto clan, known for his role in early conflicts that foreshadowed the rise of samurai rule in Japan.
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B.
Minamoto no Noriyori
Minamoto no Noriyori was a late Heian-period Japanese samurai commander of the Minamoto clan who played a key military role in the Genpei War against the Taira.
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C.
Minamoto no Tsunemoto
Minamoto no Tsunemoto was a 10th-century Japanese courtier and warrior of the early Minamoto samurai lineage, known as an ancestor of the Seiwa Genji branch that later produced powerful shogunal families.
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D.
Fujiwara no Michitaka
Fujiwara no Michitaka was a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble and regent who led the Fujiwara clan before his more famous younger brother Fujiwara no Michinaga.
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E.
Minamoto no Yoriyoshi
Minamoto no Yoriyoshi was an influential 11th-century samurai leader and military commander of the Minamoto clan, best known for his role in the Former Nine Years' War in northern Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Heian-period person
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courtier ⓘ member of the Minamoto clan ⓘ samurai ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 10th century ⓘ |
| clan | Minamoto clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| era | Heian period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Minamoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Mitsunaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | early leader of the Minamoto clan ⓘ |
| influenced | later Minamoto clan dominance in Japanese politics ⓘ |
| militaryAffiliation | Minamoto clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Minamoto no Mitsunaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Minamoto clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping establish the military influence of the Minamoto clan
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helping establish the political influence of the Minamoto clan ⓘ |
| occupation |
courtier
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samurai ⓘ |
| politicalRole | courtier in the Heian court ⓘ |
| region | Heian-kyō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
aristocrat
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warrior aristocracy ⓘ |
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: Minamoto no Mitsunaka Description of subject: Minamoto no Mitsunaka was a prominent 10th-century Japanese samurai and courtier who helped establish the political and military influence of the Minamoto clan during the Heian period.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.