Owada family
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The Owada family is a prominent Japanese family best known internationally through Masako Owada, who became Crown Princess Masako upon her marriage to Emperor Naruhito of Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Owada family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3639869 — 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: Owada family Context triple: [Owada, notableFamily, Owada family]
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A.
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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B.
Iwakura family
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 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: Owada family Target entity description: The Owada family is a prominent Japanese family best known internationally through Masako Owada, who became Crown Princess Masako upon her marriage to Emperor Naruhito of Japan.
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A.
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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B.
Iwakura family
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Maeda clan
The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Owada family Description of subject: The Owada family is a prominent Japanese family best known internationally through Masako Owada, who became Crown Princess Masako upon her marriage to Emperor Naruhito of Japan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Owada family