Yonezawa Castle
E897997
Yonezawa Castle was a prominent Japanese feudal stronghold in Dewa Province, historically associated with the powerful Uesugi samurai clan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yonezawa Castle canonical | 4 |
| 米沢城 | 2 |
| Yonezawa jin’ya and castle town | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10978555 — 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: Yonezawa Castle Context triple: [Uesugi clan, baseOfOperations, Yonezawa Castle]
-
A.
Aizuwakamatsu Castle
Aizuwakamatsu Castle is a historic Japanese fortress in the city of Aizuwakamatsu, renowned for its role in the Boshin War and its reconstructed keep with distinctive red-tiled roofs.
-
B.
Koriyama Castle
Koriyama Castle is a historic Japanese castle in Nara Prefecture known for its Edo-period fortifications and scenic cherry blossoms.
-
C.
Nagaoka Castle
Nagaoka Castle was a Japanese feudal stronghold in Echigo Province that served as the political and administrative center of the Nagaoka Domain during the Edo period.
-
D.
Yamagata Castle
Yamagata Castle is a historic Japanese castle known for its extensive ruins and reconstructed structures in present-day Yamagata City, reflecting the region’s feudal-era heritage.
-
E.
Fukuchiyama Castle
Fukuchiyama Castle is a reconstructed Japanese hilltop castle in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, originally built in the late 16th century and noted for its historical architecture and panoramic views.
- 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: Yonezawa Castle Target entity description: Yonezawa Castle was a prominent Japanese feudal stronghold in Dewa Province, historically associated with the powerful Uesugi samurai clan.
-
A.
Aizuwakamatsu Castle
Aizuwakamatsu Castle is a historic Japanese fortress in the city of Aizuwakamatsu, renowned for its role in the Boshin War and its reconstructed keep with distinctive red-tiled roofs.
-
B.
Koriyama Castle
Koriyama Castle is a historic Japanese castle in Nara Prefecture known for its Edo-period fortifications and scenic cherry blossoms.
-
C.
Nagaoka Castle
Nagaoka Castle was a Japanese feudal stronghold in Echigo Province that served as the political and administrative center of the Nagaoka Domain during the Edo period.
-
D.
Yamagata Castle
Yamagata Castle is a historic Japanese castle known for its extensive ruins and reconstructed structures in present-day Yamagata City, reflecting the region’s feudal-era heritage.
-
E.
Fukuchiyama Castle
Fukuchiyama Castle is a reconstructed Japanese hilltop castle in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, originally built in the late 16th century and noted for its historical architecture and panoramic views.
- 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: Yonezawa Castle Description of subject: Yonezawa Castle was a prominent Japanese feudal stronghold in Dewa Province, historically associated with the powerful Uesugi samurai clan.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.