Shaka-dō
E788487
Shaka-dō is a principal Buddhist hall at Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei, known for enshrining a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha and serving as an important site of Tendai Buddhist worship.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8967834 — 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: Shaka-dō Context triple: [Hieizan Enryaku-ji, notableHall, Shaka-dō]
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Dogenzaka
Dogenzaka is a lively entertainment and shopping district in Shibuya, Tokyo, known for its nightlife, restaurants, and proximity to the famous Shibuya Crossing.
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B.
Kodai-in
Kodai-in, better known as Nene, was the principal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and a prominent noblewoman who later became a respected Buddhist nun and patron of temples in Japan’s late Sengoku period.
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Miei-dō
Miei-dō is a commemorative hall at the historic Tōshōdai-ji temple in Nara, Japan, dedicated to enshrining images of the temple’s founder and important figures.
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D.
Chugu-ji
Chugu-ji is a historic Buddhist nunnery temple in Nara, Japan, renowned for its elegant Asuka-period wooden statue of a contemplative bodhisattva.
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E.
Daisan Shōhōtei
Daisan Shōhōtei is the Third Petty Bench of the Supreme Court of Japan, one of its small panels responsible for hearing specific categories of cases.
- 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: Shaka-dō Target entity description: Shaka-dō is a principal Buddhist hall at Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei, known for enshrining a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha and serving as an important site of Tendai Buddhist worship.
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A.
Dogenzaka
Dogenzaka is a lively entertainment and shopping district in Shibuya, Tokyo, known for its nightlife, restaurants, and proximity to the famous Shibuya Crossing.
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B.
Kodai-in
Kodai-in, better known as Nene, was the principal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and a prominent noblewoman who later became a respected Buddhist nun and patron of temples in Japan’s late Sengoku period.
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C.
Miei-dō
Miei-dō is a commemorative hall at the historic Tōshōdai-ji temple in Nara, Japan, dedicated to enshrining images of the temple’s founder and important figures.
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D.
Chugu-ji
Chugu-ji is a historic Buddhist nunnery temple in Nara, Japan, renowned for its elegant Asuka-period wooden statue of a contemplative bodhisattva.
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E.
Daisan Shōhōtei
Daisan Shōhōtei is the Third Petty Bench of the Supreme Court of Japan, one of its small panels responsible for hearing specific categories of cases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Buddhist hall ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional Japanese Buddhist temple architecture ⓘ |
| associatedSchool |
Tendai school of Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Tendai Buddhism
|
| associatedWith |
Japanese Tendai tradition
ⓘ
Saichō ⓘ |
| belongsToSect |
Tendai sect
ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Tendai school
|
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Shakyamuni Buddha ⓘ |
| enshrines | statue of Shakyamuni Buddha ⓘ |
| function | principal hall for Buddhist worship at Enryaku-ji ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
important site of Tendai Buddhist worship
ⓘ
pilgrimage destination on Mount Hiei ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named for Shaka (Shakyamuni Buddha) ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto" ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Enryaku-ji
ⓘ
Shiga Prefecture ⓘ Ōtsu ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mount Hiei ⓘ |
| near | Kyoto ⓘ |
| partOf |
Enryaku-ji temple complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Enryaku-ji
religious center of the Kyoto region ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Tendai Buddhism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Buddhist rituals
ⓘ
Tendai ceremonies ⓘ devotional worship ⓘ |
| worldHeritageSiteSince | 1994 ⓘ |
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: Shaka-dō Description of subject: Shaka-dō is a principal Buddhist hall at Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei, known for enshrining a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha and serving as an important site of Tendai Buddhist worship.
Referenced by (4)
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