Kukai
E281645
Kūkai was a Japanese Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, and calligrapher who founded the Shingon (Esoteric) school of Buddhism in Japan during the early Heian period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kōbō Daishi | 43 |
| Kukai canonical | 10 |
| 弘法大師 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2613199 — 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.
Target entity: Kukai Context triple: [To-ji, associatedWith, Kukai]
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A.
Gyōki
Gyōki was an influential Japanese Buddhist monk of the Nara period known for his public works, social welfare activities, and role in promoting Buddhism among the common people.
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Saigyō
Saigyō was a renowned late Heian and early Kamakura period Japanese Buddhist monk and poet celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature, impermanence, and spiritual longing.
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C.
Heiga Zen
Heiga Zen is a researcher in speech synthesis and machine learning, known for helping develop Google's WaveNet neural network for generating raw audio.
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D.
Ganjin (Jianzhen)
Ganjin (Jianzhen) was a Chinese Buddhist monk renowned for his arduous journey to Japan and his pivotal role in establishing orthodox Buddhist precepts during the Nara period.
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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.
Target entity: Kukai Target entity description: Kūkai was a Japanese Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, and calligrapher who founded the Shingon (Esoteric) school of Buddhism in Japan during the early Heian period.
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A.
Gyōki
Gyōki was an influential Japanese Buddhist monk of the Nara period known for his public works, social welfare activities, and role in promoting Buddhism among the common people.
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B.
Saigyō
Saigyō was a renowned late Heian and early Kamakura period Japanese Buddhist monk and poet celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature, impermanence, and spiritual longing.
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C.
Heiga Zen
Heiga Zen is a researcher in speech synthesis and machine learning, known for helping develop Google's WaveNet neural network for generating raw audio.
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D.
Ganjin (Jianzhen)
Ganjin (Jianzhen) was a Chinese Buddhist monk renowned for his arduous journey to Japan and his pivotal role in establishing orthodox Buddhist precepts during the Nara period.
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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
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist patriarch
ⓘ
Heian-period person ⓘ Japanese Buddhist monk ⓘ calligrapher ⓘ founder of a Buddhist school ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Esoteric Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
Heian-kyō ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
Mount Kōya ⓘ Tō-ji ⓘ
linked to:
To-ji
|
| birthYear | 774 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| deathYear | 835 ⓘ |
| era | early Heian period ⓘ |
| founded |
Shingon school of Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Shingon Buddhism
Shingon-shū ⓘ
linked to:
Shingon Buddhism
|
| honorificName |
弘法大師
ⓘ
linked to:
Kukai
|
| influenced |
Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Shingon Buddhism
Japanese calligraphy ⓘ Japanese poetry ⓘ Japanese religious culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
excellence in calligraphy
ⓘ
founding Shingon (Esoteric) Buddhism in Japan ⓘ poetry in Classical Chinese and Japanese ⓘ promoting mantra and ritual practice ⓘ systematizing Esoteric Buddhist doctrine in Japan ⓘ |
| language |
Classical Chinese
ⓘ
Classical Japanese ⓘ |
| name |
Kobo Daishi
ⓘ
Kūkai ⓘ |
| nativeName | 空海 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Benkenmitsu nikyō ron
ⓘ
Sokushin jōbutsu gi ⓘ Ten Stages of the Development of Mind ⓘ Treatise on the Ten Stages of the Development of Mind ⓘ
linked to:
Ten Stages of the Development of Mind
|
| occupation |
Buddhist monk
ⓘ
calligrapher ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Japan
ⓘ
Mount Kōya ⓘ Tō-ji Temple ⓘ
linked to:
To-ji Temple
|
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousSchool | Shingon Buddhism ⓘ |
| teacherOf | Shingon disciples ⓘ |
| title |
Daishi
ⓘ
linked to:
Kobo Daishi
|
| veneratedIn |
Japanese Buddhism
ⓘ
Shingon Buddhism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Kukai Description of subject: Kūkai was a Japanese Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, and calligrapher who founded the Shingon (Esoteric) school of Buddhism in Japan during the early Heian period.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.