Iwakura family
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The Iwakura family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage best known for producing Iwakura Tomomi, a key statesman in the Meiji Restoration.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iwakura family canonical | 1 |
| Yanagihara family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3531446 — 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: Iwakura family Context triple: [Iwakura Tomomi, clan, Iwakura 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.
Takamado family
The Takamado family is a branch of the Japanese Imperial Family descended from Prince Takamado, known for its active engagement in cultural, charitable, and international goodwill activities.
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C.
Kujō family
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Iwakura family Target entity description: The Iwakura family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage best known for producing Iwakura Tomomi, a key statesman in the Meiji Restoration.
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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.
Takamado family
The Takamado family is a branch of the Japanese Imperial Family descended from Prince Takamado, known for its active engagement in cultural, charitable, and international goodwill activities.
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C.
Kujō family
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese noble family
ⓘ
kuge family ⓘ |
| aristocraticRank | kuge rank ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kyoto Imperial Court
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto Imperial Palace
|
| associatedWithEvent | Meiji Restoration ⓘ |
| centerOfInfluence | Kyoto ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Japanese court culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese people ⓘ |
| governmentalRole | advisers to the Emperor ⓘ |
| hasFamilyNameInKanji | 岩倉氏 ⓘ |
| hasFamilyNameReading | Iwakura-shi ⓘ |
| historicalFunction | court bureaucracy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Edo period
ⓘ
Meiji period ⓘ
linked to:
Meiji era
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| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| nobleClass | kuge ⓘ |
| notableFor | producing key Meiji Restoration leader Iwakura Tomomi ⓘ |
| notableMember | Iwakura Tomomi ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-Imperial ⓘ |
| politicalInfluence | involved in Meiji Restoration politics ⓘ |
| postMeijiChange | affected by abolition of kuge–daimyo distinction ⓘ |
| preMeijiStatus | court nobility under the Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| producedStatesman | Iwakura Tomomi ⓘ |
| region |
Kinai region
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansai region
|
| role | served in the Imperial Court ⓘ |
| socialStatus | court nobility ⓘ |
| traditionalStatus | hereditary aristocracy ⓘ |
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: Iwakura family Description of subject: The Iwakura family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage best known for producing Iwakura Tomomi, a key statesman in the Meiji Restoration.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iwakura family