Kujō family
E281434
The Kujō family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage that formed one of the five regent houses historically supplying regents and consorts to the imperial court.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nijō family | 5 |
| Kujō family canonical | 4 |
| Fujiwara regent house | 1 |
| sekkanke (regent house of Fujiwara) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2569623 — 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: Kujō family Context triple: [Empress Teimei, nobleFamily, Kujō family]
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A.
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.
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B.
Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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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.
House of Fushimi-no-miya
The House of Fushimi-no-miya was one of the four shinnōke branches of Japan’s imperial family, established to provide potential heirs to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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E.
Imperial House of Japan
The Imperial House of Japan is the world's oldest continuing hereditary monarchy, comprising the Japanese emperor and his family, who serve as the ceremonial and symbolic leaders of the nation.
- 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: Kujō family Target entity description: The Kujō family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage that formed one of the five regent houses historically supplying regents and consorts to the imperial court.
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A.
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.
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B.
Yamato clan
The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
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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.
House of Fushimi-no-miya
The House of Fushimi-no-miya was one of the four shinnōke branches of Japan’s imperial family, established to provide potential heirs to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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E.
Imperial House of Japan
The Imperial House of Japan is the world's oldest continuing hereditary monarchy, comprising the Japanese emperor and his family, who serve as the ceremonial and symbolic leaders of the nation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Kujō family Description of subject: The Kujō family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage that formed one of the five regent houses historically supplying regents and consorts to the imperial court.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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