Genshō
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Genshō was an 8th-century Japanese empress who ruled during the Nara period and is known for continuing the centralizing reforms of her predecessors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Genshō canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11433854 — 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: Genshō Context triple: [Empress Genshō, alsoKnownAs, Genshō]
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A.
Enyō
Enyō is a minor Greek goddess associated with war, destruction, and the bloody chaos of battle, often depicted as a companion of Ares.
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B.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
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C.
Fumimaro
Fumimaro was a Japanese nobleman and politician who served multiple terms as Prime Minister of Japan in the years leading up to and during the early stages of World War II.
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D.
Hōshō
Hōshō was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s pioneering aircraft carrier and the world’s first purpose-built carrier to enter service.
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E.
Michinaga
Michinaga is the given name of Fujiwara no Michinaga, a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble who dominated imperial politics at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s influence.
- 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: Genshō Target entity description: Genshō was an 8th-century Japanese empress who ruled during the Nara period and is known for continuing the centralizing reforms of her predecessors.
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A.
Enyō
Enyō is a minor Greek goddess associated with war, destruction, and the bloody chaos of battle, often depicted as a companion of Ares.
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B.
Seishirō
Seishirō is a Japanese given name commonly used for male individuals.
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C.
Fumimaro
Fumimaro was a Japanese nobleman and politician who served multiple terms as Prime Minister of Japan in the years leading up to and during the early stages of World War II.
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D.
Hōshō
Hōshō was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s pioneering aircraft carrier and the world’s first purpose-built carrier to enter service.
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E.
Michinaga
Michinaga is the given name of Fujiwara no Michinaga, a powerful Heian-period Japanese court noble who dominated imperial politics at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s influence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Empress of Japan
ⓘ
human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| birthName | Hidaka-hime ⓘ |
| birthYear | 680 ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Nara Prefecture (traditional site)
ⓘ
linked to:
Nara Prefecture
|
| capitalDuringReign |
Heijō-kyō
ⓘ
linked to:
Nara
|
| century | 8th century ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| deathYear | 748 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Yamato dynasty ⓘ |
| era | Nara period ⓘ |
| father | Prince Kusakabe ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| house | Imperial House of Japan ⓘ |
| mother | Empress Genmei ⓘ |
| notableFor |
continuing centralizing reforms of her predecessors
ⓘ
patronage of Buddhism ⓘ supporting the ritsuryō legal-administrative system ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Empress regnant of Japan ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Genshō-tennō ⓘ |
| predecessor | Empress Genmei ⓘ |
| regnalOrder | 44th monarch of Japan ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 724 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 715 ⓘ |
| relative |
Emperor Tenmu
ⓘ
Empress Jitō ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| sibling | Emperor Monmu ⓘ |
| spouse | none (never married) ⓘ |
| style | Tennō ⓘ |
| succession | Empress of Japan ⓘ |
| successor | Emperor Shōmu ⓘ |
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: Genshō Description of subject: Genshō was an 8th-century Japanese empress who ruled during the Nara period and is known for continuing the centralizing reforms of her predecessors.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.