Honnō-ji
E950978
Honnō-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, best known as the site of Oda Nobunaga’s forced suicide during the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Honnō-ji temple | 2 |
| Honnō-ji canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11867491 — 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: Honnō-ji Context triple: [Incident at Honnō-ji, location, Honnō-ji]
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A.
Kurozumikyo
Kurozumikyo is a Shinto-derived religious movement in Japan centered on the teachings and revelations of its founder, Kurozumi Munetada.
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B.
Nagakute
Nagakute is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for hosting part of Expo 2005 and for its blend of suburban residential areas and cultural attractions.
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C.
Enryaku-ji
Enryaku-ji is a historic Tendai Buddhist monastery complex on Mount Hiei, renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Japan’s most important religious centers.
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D.
Daigo-ji
Daigo-ji is a historic Buddhist temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its association with Shingon Buddhism, ancient pagoda, and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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E.
Ryōzenji
Ryōzenji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, best known as the traditional starting point of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage.
- 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: Honnō-ji Target entity description: Honnō-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, best known as the site of Oda Nobunaga’s forced suicide during the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji.
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A.
Kurozumikyo
Kurozumikyo is a Shinto-derived religious movement in Japan centered on the teachings and revelations of its founder, Kurozumi Munetada.
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B.
Nagakute
Nagakute is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, known for hosting part of Expo 2005 and for its blend of suburban residential areas and cultural attractions.
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C.
Enryaku-ji
Enryaku-ji is a historic Tendai Buddhist monastery complex on Mount Hiei, renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Japan’s most important religious centers.
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D.
Daigo-ji
Daigo-ji is a historic Buddhist temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its association with Shingon Buddhism, ancient pagoda, and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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E.
Ryōzenji
Ryōzenji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, best known as the traditional starting point of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
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historic site ⓘ |
| affiliation | Nichiren Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Akechi Mitsuhide
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oda Nobunaga NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyotomi Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cityDistrict | Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryCapitalNearest | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfKeyEvent |
1582
ⓘ
June 21, 1582 (Gregorian approximation) ⓘ |
| eventLocation | Incident at Honnō-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Nichiren sect monks ⓘ |
| governingBody | religious corporation (Japan) ⓘ |
| hasArchitectureType | Japanese temple architecture ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
Japanese history
ⓘ
Sengoku-era warfare ⓘ |
| hasDiacriticForm | Honno-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
historical memorial site
ⓘ
place of worship ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | local historic site ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEra | Sengoku period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasNameInJapanese | 本能寺 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandmark | Kyoto city center ⓘ |
| hasNotablePeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| hasRomanization | Honnō-ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTourismType |
cultural tourism site
ⓘ
historical tourism site ⓘ |
| hasType | temple complex ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Japanese popular culture depictions of the Incident at Honnō-ji
ⓘ
historical studies of Oda Nobunaga ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Incident at Honnō-ji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
death of Oda Nobunaga ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kansai region
ⓘ
Kyoto ⓘ Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| originallyLocatedIn | central Kyoto ⓘ |
| reconstructedIn | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| siteOf | forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga ⓘ |
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: Honnō-ji Description of subject: Honnō-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, best known as the site of Oda Nobunaga’s forced suicide during the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Honnō-ji temple
this entity surface form:
Honnō-ji temple