Nakayama Yoshiko
E151755
Nakayama Yoshiko was a Japanese noblewoman best known as the mother of Emperor Meiji, who played a pivotal role in Japan’s modernization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nakayama Yoshiko canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1155737 — 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: Nakayama Yoshiko Context triple: [Emperor Meiji, mother, Nakayama Yoshiko]
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A.
Michiko Shōda
Michiko Shōda, later Empress Michiko, is the former Empress consort of Japan and the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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B.
Hisako Nagayama
Hisako Nagayama was the wife of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was a prominent military leader during World War II.
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C.
Chikako Shimazu
Chikako Shimazu was a Japanese noblewoman of the influential Shimazu family and the mother of Empress Kōjun, consort of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).
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D.
Sayako Kuroda
Sayako Kuroda, formerly Princess Sayako of Japan, is the only daughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko who left the imperial family upon her marriage to a commoner.
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E.
Naoko Mori
Naoko Mori is a Japanese-born British actress best known for her roles in the TV series "Torchwood" and the musical "Miss Saigon."
- 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: Nakayama Yoshiko Target entity description: Nakayama Yoshiko was a Japanese noblewoman best known as the mother of Emperor Meiji, who played a pivotal role in Japan’s modernization.
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A.
Michiko Shōda
Michiko Shōda, later Empress Michiko, is the former Empress consort of Japan and the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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B.
Hisako Nagayama
Hisako Nagayama was the wife of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was a prominent military leader during World War II.
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C.
Chikako Shimazu
Chikako Shimazu was a Japanese noblewoman of the influential Shimazu family and the mother of Empress Kōjun, consort of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).
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D.
Sayako Kuroda
Sayako Kuroda, formerly Princess Sayako of Japan, is the only daughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko who left the imperial family upon her marriage to a commoner.
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E.
Naoko Mori
Naoko Mori is a Japanese-born British actress best known for her roles in the TV series "Torchwood" and the musical "Miss Saigon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese noblewoman
ⓘ
aristocrat ⓘ concubine of the Japanese emperor ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1835-10-16 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kyoto ⓘ |
| child | Emperor Meiji ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1907-01-05 ⓘ |
| era |
early Meiji period
ⓘ
late Edo period ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| father | Nakayama Tadayasu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | court lady of the Inner Palace ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOfFamily | Nakayama family ⓘ |
| motherOf | Emperor Meiji ⓘ |
| name | Nakayama Yoshiko ⓘ |
| nativeName |
中山 慶子
ⓘ
linked to:
中山慶子
|
| nobleFamily | Nakayama family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Emperor Meiji ⓘ |
| occupation | court lady ⓘ |
| partner | Emperor Kōmei ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kyoto ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Kyoto ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lady-in-waiting at the Imperial Court ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| residence | Kyoto Imperial Palace ⓘ |
| spouse | Emperor Kōmei ⓘ |
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: Nakayama Yoshiko Description of subject: Nakayama Yoshiko was a Japanese noblewoman best known as the mother of Emperor Meiji, who played a pivotal role in Japan’s modernization.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.