Edo Castle
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Edo Castle was the vast fortified residence of the Tokugawa shoguns in Edo (now Tokyo), serving as the political and military center of Japan during the Edo period.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edo Castle canonical | 25 |
| former Edo Castle | 3 |
| Chiyoda Castle (former name of Edo Castle) | 2 |
| 江戸城 | 2 |
| Edo Castle (historically) | 1 |
| Edo Castle site | 1 |
| 江戸城北の丸 | 1 |
| 江戸城本丸跡 | 1 |
| 江戸城跡 | 1 |
| 皇居（旧江戸城） | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3305811 — 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: Edo Castle Context triple: [Edo, hasLandmark, Edo Castle]
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A.
Nagoya Castle
Nagoya Castle is a historic Japanese fortress in Nagoya, famous for its Edo-period architecture and iconic golden shachihoko (mythical tiger-fish) ornaments.
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B.
Himeji Castle
Himeji Castle is a UNESCO-listed Japanese feudal castle famed for its elegant white appearance, complex defensive design, and status as one of Japan’s best-preserved original castles.
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Osaka Castle
Osaka Castle is a historic Japanese fortress in Osaka, renowned for its grand architecture, surrounding park, and major role in Japan’s feudal history.
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D.
Fushimi Castle
Fushimi Castle is a historic Japanese castle in Kyoto associated with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and known for its role in the late Sengoku period and early Edo period.
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E.
Nijō Castle
Nijō Castle is a historic shogunal residence and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its ornate palaces, beautiful gardens, and “nightingale” floors that chirp when walked upon.
- 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: Edo Castle Target entity description: Edo Castle was the vast fortified residence of the Tokugawa shoguns in Edo (now Tokyo), serving as the political and military center of Japan during the Edo period.
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A.
Nagoya Castle
Nagoya Castle is a historic Japanese fortress in Nagoya, famous for its Edo-period architecture and iconic golden shachihoko (mythical tiger-fish) ornaments.
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B.
Himeji Castle
Himeji Castle is a UNESCO-listed Japanese feudal castle famed for its elegant white appearance, complex defensive design, and status as one of Japan’s best-preserved original castles.
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C.
Osaka Castle
Osaka Castle is a historic Japanese fortress in Osaka, renowned for its grand architecture, surrounding park, and major role in Japan’s feudal history.
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D.
Fushimi Castle
Fushimi Castle is a historic Japanese castle in Kyoto associated with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and known for its role in the late Sengoku period and early Edo period.
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E.
Nijō Castle
Nijō Castle is a historic shogunal residence and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its ornate palaces, beautiful gardens, and “nightingale” floors that chirp when walked upon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Edo Castle Description of subject: Edo Castle was the vast fortified residence of the Tokugawa shoguns in Edo (now Tokyo), serving as the political and military center of Japan during the Edo period.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Fushimi-yagura (turret)
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