Azai Nagamasa
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Azai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō known for his alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga, as well as for being the husband of Nobunaga’s sister Oichi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Azai Nagamasa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8837606 — 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: Azai Nagamasa Context triple: [Yodo-dono, father, Azai Nagamasa]
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Maeda Toshiie
Maeda Toshiie was a prominent Sengoku-period samurai and daimyo who rose from Oda Nobunaga’s retainer to become the powerful lord of Kaga Province and head of the influential Maeda clan.
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Kuroda Nagamasa
Kuroda Nagamasa was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō, known for his military leadership, political acumen, and role in consolidating Tokugawa power.
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Katō Kiyomasa
Katō Kiyomasa was a prominent Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and military leader renowned for his fierce samurai discipline, castle-building expertise, and major role in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasions of Korea.
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D.
Maeda Toshinaga
Maeda Toshinaga was a prominent early Edo-period daimyō who succeeded his father Maeda Toshiie as head of the powerful Maeda clan and ruler of the Kaga Domain.
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E.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
- 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: Azai Nagamasa Target entity description: Azai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō known for his alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga, as well as for being the husband of Nobunaga’s sister Oichi.
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A.
Maeda Toshiie
Maeda Toshiie was a prominent Sengoku-period samurai and daimyo who rose from Oda Nobunaga’s retainer to become the powerful lord of Kaga Province and head of the influential Maeda clan.
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B.
Kuroda Nagamasa
Kuroda Nagamasa was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō, known for his military leadership, political acumen, and role in consolidating Tokugawa power.
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C.
Katō Kiyomasa
Katō Kiyomasa was a prominent Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and military leader renowned for his fierce samurai discipline, castle-building expertise, and major role in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasions of Korea.
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D.
Maeda Toshinaga
Maeda Toshinaga was a prominent early Edo-period daimyō who succeeded his father Maeda Toshiie as head of the powerful Maeda clan and ruler of the Kaga Domain.
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E.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese daimyō
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Sengoku-period person ⓘ samurai ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1545 ⓘ |
| brotherInLaw | Oda Nobunaga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | seppuku ⓘ |
| child |
Oeyo
NERFINISHED
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Ohatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Yodo-dono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clan | Azai clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1573 ⓘ |
| domain | Northern Ōmi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Azai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Azai Hisamasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Nagamasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
initial alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga
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leadership of the Azai clan ⓘ marriage to Oichi ⓘ |
| militaryAlly | Asakura Yoshikage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryOpponent |
Oda Nobunaga
NERFINISHED
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Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Azai Nagamasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 浅井 長政 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Anegawa
NERFINISHED
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Siege of Odani Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ alliance with Oda Nobunaga ⓘ betrayal of Oda Nobunaga ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Emperor Heisei
NERFINISHED
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Emperor Meiji NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Reiwa NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Shōwa NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Taishō NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naosuke NERFINISHED ⓘ Imperial House of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Oda Nobunaga NERFINISHED ⓘ Oda clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Hidetada NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ieharu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Iemitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Iemochi NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ienari NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ienari’s descendants ⓘ Tokugawa Ienobu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Iesada NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ietsugu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ietsuna NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ieyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Ieyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Yoshimune NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa Yoshinobu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa clan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokugawa shoguns NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyotomi Hideyori NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyotomi clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Odani Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | daimyō of Ōmi Province ⓘ |
| residence | Odani Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Oichi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Azai Nagamasa Description of subject: Azai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō known for his alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga, as well as for being the husband of Nobunaga’s sister Oichi.
Referenced by (1)
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