Kōmokuten
E950809
Kōmokuten is one of the Four Heavenly Kings in Buddhist tradition, revered in Japan as the guardian of the West who protects the world and upholds Buddhist law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kōmokuten canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11861022 — 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: Kōmokuten Context triple: [Virūpākṣa, JapaneseName, Kōmokuten]
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A.
Konkō Daijin
Konkō Daijin is the 19th-century Japanese religious leader revered as the founder and central deity figure of the Konkokyo faith, which emphasizes sincere faith, mutual help, and harmony with the divine.
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B.
Tōshō
Tōshō is the commonly used Japanese abbreviation for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one of the world’s largest and most influential stock markets.
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C.
Hokuzan
Hokuzan was a medieval kingdom in northern Okinawa that existed before the unification of the Ryukyu Islands under the Ryukyu Kingdom.
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D.
Kumano Gongen
Kumano Gongen is a syncretic Shinto-Buddhist manifestation of deities venerated at the Kumano shrines, revered as protective and salvific mountain and pilgrimage gods in Japan.
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E.
Tenkasi
Tenkasi is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, known for its scenic Western Ghats backdrop, historic temples, and growing role as an emerging technology hub.
- 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: Kōmokuten Target entity description: Kōmokuten is one of the Four Heavenly Kings in Buddhist tradition, revered in Japan as the guardian of the West who protects the world and upholds Buddhist law.
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A.
Konkō Daijin
Konkō Daijin is the 19th-century Japanese religious leader revered as the founder and central deity figure of the Konkokyo faith, which emphasizes sincere faith, mutual help, and harmony with the divine.
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B.
Tōshō
Tōshō is the commonly used Japanese abbreviation for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one of the world’s largest and most influential stock markets.
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C.
Hokuzan
Hokuzan was a medieval kingdom in northern Okinawa that existed before the unification of the Ryukyu Islands under the Ryukyu Kingdom.
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D.
Kumano Gongen
Kumano Gongen is a syncretic Shinto-Buddhist manifestation of deities venerated at the Kumano shrines, revered as protective and salvific mountain and pilgrimage gods in Japan.
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E.
Tenkasi
Tenkasi is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, known for its scenic Western Ghats backdrop, historic temples, and growing role as an emerging technology hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist deity
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Dharmapala ⓘ Four Heavenly King ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
justice
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law ⓘ protection ⓘ vigilance ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buddhist temple gates
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Japan ⓘ heavenly armies ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRole |
guardian of one of the four cardinal directions
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protector of the western quarter of the world ⓘ |
| cultCenter | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalRole | protector of the nation in Japanese belief ⓘ |
| depictedAs | wrathful guardian figure ⓘ |
| domain | western direction of Mount Sumeru ⓘ |
| function |
guardian of Buddhist temples
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protector of the Dharma ⓘ subduer of evil ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| guardianDirection | West ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
armor
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helmet ⓘ scroll ⓘ spear ⓘ staff ⓘ stomping on a demon ⓘ |
| memberOf | Four Heavenly Kings ⓘ |
| mythologicalOrigin | Indian guardian king Virūpākṣa ⓘ |
| originTradition |
Chinese Buddhism
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Indian Buddhism ⓘ Japanese Buddhism ⓘ |
| otherName | Virūpākṣa ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| role |
protector of the world
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upholder of Buddhist law ⓘ |
| script | Japanese ⓘ |
| sharesGroupWith |
Jikokuten
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Tamonten ⓘ Zōchōten ⓘ |
| typicalLocation | entrances of Japanese Buddhist temples ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | guardian of the West ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Chinese Buddhism
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East Asian Buddhism ⓘ Japanese Buddhism ⓘ Korean Buddhism ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Kanji ⓘ |
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: Kōmokuten Description of subject: Kōmokuten is one of the Four Heavenly Kings in Buddhist tradition, revered in Japan as the guardian of the West who protects the world and upholds Buddhist law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.