Shō En
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Shō En was the founder and first king of the Second Shō Dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, ruling in the late 15th century and establishing a new royal lineage in Okinawa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shō En canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23162262 — 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: Shō En Context triple: [Shō Shin, predecessor, Shō En]
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A.
Hō Shō
Hō Shō, better known by her pen name Yosano Akiko, was a pioneering Japanese poet, feminist, and social reformer of the early 20th century.
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B.
Shō Tai
Shō Tai was the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, whose reign ended with the kingdom’s annexation by Japan in the late 19th century.
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C.
Bun'ō
Bun'ō was a short-lived Japanese era of the Kamakura period, marked by political tension between the imperial court and the emerging samurai government.
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D.
Sutoku-tennō
Sutoku-tennō was a 12th-century Japanese emperor whose troubled reign and later exile led to his legendary status as a vengeful spirit in Japanese folklore.
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E.
Nakae Chōmin
Nakae Chōmin was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese political thinker, journalist, and translator who helped introduce Western liberal ideas to Japan and became a leading advocate for democracy and civil rights.
- 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: Shō En Target entity description: Shō En was the founder and first king of the Second Shō Dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, ruling in the late 15th century and establishing a new royal lineage in Okinawa.
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A.
Hō Shō
Hō Shō, better known by her pen name Yosano Akiko, was a pioneering Japanese poet, feminist, and social reformer of the early 20th century.
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B.
Shō Tai
Shō Tai was the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, whose reign ended with the kingdom’s annexation by Japan in the late 19th century.
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C.
Bun'ō
Bun'ō was a short-lived Japanese era of the Kamakura period, marked by political tension between the imperial court and the emerging samurai government.
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D.
Sutoku-tennō
Sutoku-tennō was a 12th-century Japanese emperor whose troubled reign and later exile led to his legendary status as a vengeful spirit in Japanese folklore.
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E.
Nakae Chōmin
Nakae Chōmin was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese political thinker, journalist, and translator who helped introduce Western liberal ideas to Japan and became a leading advocate for democracy and civil rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.