Uesugi clan
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The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uesugi clan canonical | 9 |
| Ōgigayatsu Uesugi clan | 1 |
| Ōgigayatsu branch of the Uesugi clan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2347117 — 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: Uesugi clan Context triple: [Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan, historicallyRuledBy, Uesugi clan]
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A.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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B.
Toyotomi clan
The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Minamoto clan
The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
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D.
Nikai faction
The Nikai faction is a prominent conservative intra-party group within Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, associated with veteran politician Toshihiro Nikai and known for its strong organizational influence and pro-business stance.
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E.
Higashikuni-no-miya family
The Higashikuni-no-miya family was a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family, established in the early 20th century and notable for its close ties to the main imperial line.
- 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: Uesugi clan Target entity description: The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
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A.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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B.
Toyotomi clan
The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
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C.
Minamoto clan
The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
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D.
Nikai faction
The Nikai faction is a prominent conservative intra-party group within Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, associated with veteran politician Toshihiro Nikai and known for its strong organizational influence and pro-business stance.
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E.
Higashikuni-no-miya family
The Higashikuni-no-miya family was a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family, established in the early 20th century and notable for its close ties to the main imperial line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Uesugi clan Description of subject: The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Uesugi clan
linked to: Uesugi clan