Fujiwara no Tametoki
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Fujiwara no Tametoki was a Heian-period Japanese court noble and scholar best known as the father of the famed author Murasaki Shikibu.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fujiwara no Nobutaka | 1 |
| Fujiwara no Tametoki canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3020588 — 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: Fujiwara no Tametoki Context triple: [Murasaki Shikibu, father, Fujiwara no Tametoki]
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A.
Fujiwara no Yorimichi
Fujiwara no Yorimichi was a powerful 11th-century Japanese court noble and regent who dominated Heian-period politics and famously sponsored the construction of the Byōdō-in temple at Uji.
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B.
Fujiwara no Michinaga
Fujiwara no Michinaga was a powerful Japanese court noble who dominated Heian-period politics by controlling the imperial regency and marrying his daughters into the imperial family.
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C.
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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D.
Sugawara no Michizane
Sugawara no Michizane was a renowned Heian-period scholar, poet, and statesman who was later deified in Japan as Tenjin, the patron kami of learning and scholarship.
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E.
Nijō Tsuruko
Nijō Tsuruko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
- 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: Fujiwara no Tametoki Target entity description: Fujiwara no Tametoki was a Heian-period Japanese court noble and scholar best known as the father of the famed author Murasaki Shikibu.
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A.
Fujiwara no Yorimichi
Fujiwara no Yorimichi was a powerful 11th-century Japanese court noble and regent who dominated Heian-period politics and famously sponsored the construction of the Byōdō-in temple at Uji.
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B.
Fujiwara no Michinaga
Fujiwara no Michinaga was a powerful Japanese court noble who dominated Heian-period politics by controlling the imperial regency and marrying his daughters into the imperial family.
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C.
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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D.
Sugawara no Michizane
Sugawara no Michizane was a renowned Heian-period scholar, poet, and statesman who was later deified in Japan as Tenjin, the patron kami of learning and scholarship.
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E.
Nijō Tsuruko
Nijō Tsuruko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Heian-period person
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Japanese court noble ⓘ member of the Fujiwara clan ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| child | Murasaki Shikibu ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| era | Heian period ⓘ |
| familyName |
Fujiwara
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linked to:
Fujiwara clan
|
| fieldOfWork |
Chinese learning
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literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Tametoki
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linked to:
Michitaka
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Japanese ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Fujiwara clan ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Murasaki Shikibu ⓘ |
| occupation |
court noble
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poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| positionHeld | court official ⓘ |
| relative | Murasaki Shikibu ⓘ |
| residence | Kyoto ⓘ |
| socialClass | kuge ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
10th century
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11th century ⓘ |
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: Fujiwara no Tametoki Description of subject: Fujiwara no Tametoki was a Heian-period Japanese court noble and scholar best known as the father of the famed author Murasaki Shikibu.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fujiwara no Tametoki