Ii clan
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The Ii clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, known for its military prowess and influential role as daimyō under the Tokugawa shogunate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ii clan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9893752 — 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: Ii clan Context triple: [Hikone Castle, builtFor, Ii clan]
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A.
Ukita clan
The Ukita clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, known for its control of Bizen Province and its prominent role as a major daimyo house under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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B.
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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C.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
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D.
Mōri clan
The Mōri clan was a powerful samurai family that rose to prominence as daimyō in western Honshu during Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, playing a major role in regional politics and military affairs.
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E.
Ikeda clan
The Ikeda clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence as feudal lords (daimyō) during the Sengoku and Edo periods.
- 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: Ii clan Target entity description: The Ii clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, known for its military prowess and influential role as daimyō under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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A.
Ukita clan
The Ukita clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, known for its control of Bizen Province and its prominent role as a major daimyo house under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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B.
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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C.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
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D.
Mōri clan
The Mōri clan was a powerful samurai family that rose to prominence as daimyō in western Honshu during Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, playing a major role in regional politics and military affairs.
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E.
Ikeda clan
The Ikeda clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence as feudal lords (daimyō) during the Sengoku and Edo periods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
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samurai clan ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
Edo period
ⓘ
Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Tokugawa Ieyasu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hikone city NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| crest | Ii family mon ⓘ |
| culturalLegacy | preservation of Hikone Castle ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Azuchi–Momoyama period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeDomain | Hikone Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeProvince | Tōtōmi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
military prowess
ⓘ
service to Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| mainCastle | Hikone Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | Red Devil troops ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Sekigahara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Siege of Osaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assassination of Ii Naosuke in the Sakuradamon Incident ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Ii Naochika
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ii Naoharu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naohide NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naohira NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naohisa NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naokatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naokuni NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naomasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naomori NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naomune NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naonaka NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naonori NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naosada NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naosuke NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naotaka NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naotomo NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naoyasu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naoyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ Ii Naoyuki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalInfluence | bakufu leadership ⓘ |
| politicalRole | senior councilors of Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| region | Ōmi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInGovernment | fudai daimyō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedClan | Tokugawa clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | daimyō ⓘ |
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: Ii clan Description of subject: The Ii clan was a prominent samurai family in Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, known for its military prowess and influential role as daimyō under the Tokugawa shogunate.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.