Yoshimasa
E1046248
Yoshimasa is a Japanese given name commonly associated with historical figures, most notably the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yoshimasa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12131982 — 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: Yoshimasa Context triple: [Ashikaga Yoshimasa, givenName, Yoshimasa]
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A.
Ōshima Yoshimasa
Ōshima Yoshimasa was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for his leadership during the First Sino-Japanese War, including commanding Japanese forces at the Battle of Seonghwan.
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B.
Yasumasa
Yasumasa is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various historical and contemporary figures.
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C.
Shigenobu
Shigenobu is a Japanese given name notably borne by Ōkuma Shigenobu, a prominent Meiji-era statesman and former Prime Minister of Japan.
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D.
Asai Nagamasa
Asai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō of Ōmi Province, known for his alliance and later betrayal of his brother-in-law Oda Nobunaga, which led to his clan’s destruction.
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E.
Oda Nobukatsu
Oda Nobukatsu was a samurai lord of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known as one of Oda Nobunaga’s sons who inherited and contested parts of his father’s domain after Nobunaga’s death.
- 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: Yoshimasa Target entity description: Yoshimasa is a Japanese given name commonly associated with historical figures, most notably the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
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A.
Ōshima Yoshimasa
Ōshima Yoshimasa was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for his leadership during the First Sino-Japanese War, including commanding Japanese forces at the Battle of Seonghwan.
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B.
Yasumasa
Yasumasa is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various historical and contemporary figures.
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C.
Shigenobu
Shigenobu is a Japanese given name notably borne by Ōkuma Shigenobu, a prominent Meiji-era statesman and former Prime Minister of Japan.
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D.
Asai Nagamasa
Asai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō of Ōmi Province, known for his alliance and later betrayal of his brother-in-law Oda Nobunaga, which led to his clan’s destruction.
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E.
Oda Nobukatsu
Oda Nobukatsu was a samurai lord of Japan’s Sengoku period, best known as one of Oda Nobunaga’s sons who inherited and contested parts of his father’s domain after Nobunaga’s death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name
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human ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ shogun ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Ashikaga shogunate
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linked to:
Ashikaga clan
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| familyName | Ashikaga ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yoshimasa ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Ashikaga Yoshimasa ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameCategory | given name ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate ⓘ |
| occupation | military ruler ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
hiragana
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kanji ⓘ katakana ⓘ |
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: Yoshimasa Description of subject: Yoshimasa is a Japanese given name commonly associated with historical figures, most notably the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.