Nagaoka Domain
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Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nagaoka Domain canonical | 4 |
| Echigo Domain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1426934 — 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: Nagaoka Domain Context triple: [Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, wasCastleTownOf, Nagaoka Domain]
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A.
Chōshū Domain
Chōshū Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu, Japan, centered in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, that played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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B.
Ominato District
Ominato District is a regional command of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force responsible for naval operations and defense in the northern waters of Japan.
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C.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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D.
Shinano
Shinano was a Japanese World War II aircraft carrier, originally laid down as a Yamato-class battleship and notable for being the largest carrier ever sunk in combat.
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E.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
- 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: Nagaoka Domain Target entity description: Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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A.
Chōshū Domain
Chōshū Domain was a powerful feudal domain in western Honshu, Japan, centered in present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, that played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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B.
Ominato District
Ominato District is a regional command of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force responsible for naval operations and defense in the northern waters of Japan.
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C.
Shiga Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture in central Japan known for encompassing Lake Biwa, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and for its historical towns and proximity to Kyoto in the Kansai region.
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D.
Shinano
Shinano was a Japanese World War II aircraft carrier, originally laid down as a Yamato-class battleship and notable for being the largest carrier ever sunk in combat.
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E.
Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture is a coastal prefecture in central Japan known for the Ise Grand Shrine, scenic coastal landscapes, and traditional pearl cultivation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Edo period domain
ⓘ
feudal domain ⓘ han ⓘ |
| abolishedBy | abolition of the han system ⓘ |
| allegiance | Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| capital | Nagaoka Castle ⓘ |
| centeredIn | Nagaoka ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| currency | koku ⓘ |
| endTime | Meiji Restoration ⓘ |
| governingSystem | han system ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Early modern Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Edo period
|
| historicalLocation | north-central Honshū ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Echigo Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Niigata Prefecture ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Honshū
ⓘ
linked to:
Honshu
|
| overlord | Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| partOf | Edo period Japan ⓘ |
| period | Edo period ⓘ |
| politicalStructure | hereditary domain ⓘ |
| region |
Chūbu region
ⓘ
Hokuriku region ⓘ |
| ruledBy | daimyō ⓘ |
| rulerTitle | daimyō ⓘ |
| startTime | Edo period ⓘ |
| status | feudal domain under shogunate ⓘ |
| successor |
Nagaoka Prefecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Niigata Prefecture ⓘ |
| typeOfGovernment | feudal lordship ⓘ |
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: Nagaoka Domain Description of subject: Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nagaoka Domain