Hajino Nakamaro
E254705
Hajino Nakamaro was a historical Japanese figure traditionally credited with founding Sensō-ji, one of Tokyo’s oldest and most significant Buddhist temples.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hajino Nakamaro canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2104876 — 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: Hajino Nakamaro Context triple: [Senso-ji, foundedBy, Hajino Nakamaro]
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A.
Hara Takashi
Hara Takashi was a Japanese politician who became the first commoner to serve as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Taishō period.
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B.
Iwakura Tomomi
Iwakura Tomomi was a key Japanese statesman of the late Edo and early Meiji periods who played a central role in the Meiji Restoration and Japan’s early modernization and diplomacy.
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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.
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.
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E.
Minami Jirō
Minami Jirō was a Japanese army general and colonial administrator best known for serving as Governor-General of Korea during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century.
- 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: Hajino Nakamaro Target entity description: Hajino Nakamaro was a historical Japanese figure traditionally credited with founding Sensō-ji, one of Tokyo’s oldest and most significant Buddhist temples.
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A.
Hara Takashi
Hara Takashi was a Japanese politician who became the first commoner to serve as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Taishō period.
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B.
Iwakura Tomomi
Iwakura Tomomi was a key Japanese statesman of the late Edo and early Meiji periods who played a central role in the Meiji Restoration and Japan’s early modernization and diplomacy.
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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.
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.
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E.
Minami Jirō
Minami Jirō was a Japanese army general and colonial administrator best known for serving as Governor-General of Korea during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
Asuka period
ⓘ
linked to:
Yamato period
early Japanese Buddhism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Asakusa Kannon legend
ⓘ
Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| commemoratedAt | Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese Buddhist tradition ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| founderOf | Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
Asakusa
ⓘ
Musashi Province ⓘ present-day Tokyo ⓘ
linked to:
Tokyo city center
|
| hasFamilyName |
Hajino
ⓘ
linked to:
Hiranaka
|
| hasGivenName | Nakamaro ⓘ |
| hasRole | founder of Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Sensō-ji temple legend ⓘ |
| narrativeStatus | semi-legendary ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding Sensō-ji ⓘ |
| occupation |
religious figure
ⓘ
temple founder ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Asakusa
ⓘ
Edo ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Mahayana Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
|
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: Hajino Nakamaro Description of subject: Hajino Nakamaro was a historical Japanese figure traditionally credited with founding Sensō-ji, one of Tokyo’s oldest and most significant Buddhist temples.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Senso-ji Temple