Takeda clan
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The Takeda clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known for its famed warlord Takeda Shingen and its military prowess in central Honshu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Takeda clan canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10978543 — 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: Takeda clan Context triple: [Uesugi clan, rival, Takeda clan]
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A.
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.
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B.
Toyotomi clan
The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
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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D.
Ōtomo clan
The Ōtomo clan was an influential aristocratic family in ancient Japan, prominent in court politics and early Japanese literature.
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E.
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.
- 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: Takeda clan Target entity description: The Takeda clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known for its famed warlord Takeda Shingen and its military prowess in central Honshu.
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A.
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.
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B.
Toyotomi clan
The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
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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D.
Ōtomo clan
The Ōtomo clan was an influential aristocratic family in ancient Japan, prominent in court politics and early Japanese literature.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Takeda clan Description of subject: The Takeda clan was a powerful samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known for its famed warlord Takeda Shingen and its military prowess in central Honshu.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.