Kakinomoto clan
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The Kakinomoto clan was an ancient Japanese family best known for producing the celebrated Asuka-period poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a central figure in early Japanese literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kakinomoto clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8535938 — 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: Kakinomoto clan Context triple: [Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, associatedWith, Kakinomoto clan]
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A.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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B.
Matsudaira clan
The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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D.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Minamoto clan
The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
- 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: Kakinomoto clan Target entity description: The Kakinomoto clan was an ancient Japanese family best known for producing the celebrated Asuka-period poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a central figure in early Japanese literature.
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A.
Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
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B.
Matsudaira clan
The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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D.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Minamoto clan
The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
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aristocratic family ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Asuka-period court culture
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Man’yōshū NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamato court NERFINISHED ⓘ early Japanese literature ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| era | ancient Japan ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity | court poetry ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Kakinomoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
NERFINISHED
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Kakinomoto no Saru (attributed/legendary) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableMemberRole |
court poet
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official in imperial service ⓘ |
| hasReputation | literary distinction ⓘ |
| influenced | Japanese waka tradition ⓘ |
| knownFor | producing the poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro ⓘ |
| language | Classical Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | Asuka period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism (historical context)
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Shinto (historical context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | court nobility ⓘ |
| timeFrame |
7th century
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8th century ⓘ |
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: Kakinomoto clan Description of subject: The Kakinomoto clan was an ancient Japanese family best known for producing the celebrated Asuka-period poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, a central figure in early Japanese literature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.