Ninai-dō
E790143
Ninai-dō is a prominent paired hall complex within Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei, known for its historical association with ascetic Tendai Buddhist practice and monastic training.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ninai-dō canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8967835 — 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: Ninai-dō Context triple: [Hieizan Enryaku-ji, notableHall, Ninai-dō]
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A.
Ninna-ji
Ninna-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its imperial connections, traditional architecture, and late-blooming cherry blossoms.
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B.
Yamashina-dera
Yamashina-dera was an early Buddhist temple in Japan that served as the predecessor and original site of the influential Kōfuku-ji temple associated with the powerful Fujiwara clan.
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C.
Nakayama-dera
Nakayama-dera is a historic Buddhist temple in Japan, renowned as one of the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage sites and a popular destination for prayers related to safe childbirth and child-rearing.
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D.
Nigatsu-dō
Nigatsu-dō is a prominent sub-temple hall within the Tōdai-ji complex in Nara, Japan, renowned for its annual Shuni-e (Omizutori) Buddhist repentance ceremony.
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E.
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.
- 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: Ninai-dō Target entity description: Ninai-dō is a prominent paired hall complex within Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei, known for its historical association with ascetic Tendai Buddhist practice and monastic training.
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A.
Ninna-ji
Ninna-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its imperial connections, traditional architecture, and late-blooming cherry blossoms.
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B.
Yamashina-dera
Yamashina-dera was an early Buddhist temple in Japan that served as the predecessor and original site of the influential Kōfuku-ji temple associated with the powerful Fujiwara clan.
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C.
Nakayama-dera
Nakayama-dera is a historic Buddhist temple in Japan, renowned as one of the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage sites and a popular destination for prayers related to safe childbirth and child-rearing.
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D.
Nigatsu-dō
Nigatsu-dō is a prominent sub-temple hall within the Tōdai-ji complex in Nara, Japan, renowned for its annual Shuni-e (Omizutori) Buddhist repentance ceremony.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple building
ⓘ
religious hall complex ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Enryaku-ji monastery
ⓘ
linked to:
Enryaku-ji
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| associatedWith |
Tendai ascetic practice
ⓘ
monastic training ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| hasComponent | paired halls ⓘ |
| heritageContext | part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (UNESCO World Heritage Site) ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Enryaku-ji ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Kyoto ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mount Hiei ⓘ |
| notableFor | historical role in Tendai monastic discipline ⓘ |
| partOf |
Enryaku-ji temple complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Enryaku-ji
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| religiousFunction |
ascetic practice site
ⓘ
training of monks ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Tendai Buddhism ⓘ |
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: Ninai-dō Description of subject: Ninai-dō is a prominent paired hall complex within Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei, known for its historical association with ascetic Tendai Buddhist practice and monastic training.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hieizan Enryaku-ji temple complex