Temple 9: Hōrinji
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Temple 9: Hōrinji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as the ninth stop on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Horinji (Temple 9) | 1 |
| Temple 9: Hōrinji canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3413482 — 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: Temple 9: Hōrinji Context triple: [Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage, hasPart, Temple 9: Hōrinji]
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Tenryu-ji Temple
Tenryu-ji Temple is a major Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic landscape garden and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
Sojiwan temple
Sojiwan Temple is a 9th-century Buddhist temple near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable for its reliefs and association with the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom.
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C.
Osu Kannon Temple
Osu Kannon Temple is a prominent Buddhist temple and popular cultural and shopping-area centerpiece located in the Ōsu district of Nagoya, Japan.
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D.
Enryaku-ji
Enryaku-ji is a historic Tendai Buddhist monastery complex on Mount Hiei, renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Japan’s most important religious centers.
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E.
Gotokuji Temple
Gotokuji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo famed as the birthplace of the beckoning cat (maneki-neko) legend and its thousands of cat figurines.
- 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: Temple 9: Hōrinji Target entity description: Temple 9: Hōrinji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as the ninth stop on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai.
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A.
Tenryu-ji Temple
Tenryu-ji Temple is a major Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its historic landscape garden and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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B.
Sojiwan temple
Sojiwan Temple is a 9th-century Buddhist temple near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable for its reliefs and association with the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom.
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C.
Osu Kannon Temple
Osu Kannon Temple is a prominent Buddhist temple and popular cultural and shopping-area centerpiece located in the Ōsu district of Nagoya, Japan.
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D.
Enryaku-ji
Enryaku-ji is a historic Tendai Buddhist monastery complex on Mount Hiei, renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Japan’s most important religious centers.
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E.
Gotokuji Temple
Gotokuji Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Tokyo famed as the birthplace of the beckoning cat (maneki-neko) legend and its thousands of cat figurines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Temple 9: Hōrinji Description of subject: Temple 9: Hōrinji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, known as the ninth stop on the historic Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage associated with Kūkai.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Temple 9: Hōrinji