Fujiwara no Otomuro
E394946
Fujiwara no Otomuro was a noblewoman of Japan’s powerful Fujiwara clan who became an empress consort during the early Heian period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fujiwara no Otomuro canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3845009 — 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 Otomuro Context triple: [Emperor Kanmu, spouse, Fujiwara no Otomuro]
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A.
Fujiwara no Tametoki
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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B.
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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C.
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Fujiwara no Tadamichi was a prominent late Heian-period court noble and regent of Japan who played a key political and military role in the power struggles between the imperial court and rising samurai clans.
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D.
Fujiwara no Yorinaga
Fujiwara no Yorinaga was a powerful late Heian-period court noble and political leader who became a central figure in the conflict between aristocratic and warrior factions that culminated in the Hōgen Rebellion.
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E.
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.
- 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 Otomuro Target entity description: Fujiwara no Otomuro was a noblewoman of Japan’s powerful Fujiwara clan who became an empress consort during the early Heian period.
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A.
Fujiwara no Tametoki
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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B.
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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C.
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Fujiwara no Tadamichi was a prominent late Heian-period court noble and regent of Japan who played a key political and military role in the power struggles between the imperial court and rising samurai clans.
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D.
Fujiwara no Yorinaga
Fujiwara no Yorinaga was a powerful late Heian-period court noble and political leader who became a central figure in the conflict between aristocratic and warrior factions that culminated in the Hōgen Rebellion.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese noblewoman
ⓘ
empress consort of Japan ⓘ member of the Fujiwara clan ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early Heian period ⓘ |
| clan | Fujiwara clan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| era | Heian period ⓘ |
| familyName |
Fujiwara
ⓘ
linked to:
Fujiwara clan
|
| father | Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu ⓘ |
| givenName | Otomuro ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Emperor Junna
ⓘ
Emperor Saga ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Fujiwara clan ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | empress consort ⓘ |
| notableDescendant | Imperial House of Japan ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection |
Fujiwara regent family
ⓘ
linked to:
Fujiwara clan
|
| positionHeld |
empress consort of Japan
ⓘ
kōgō ⓘ |
| residence |
Heian-kyō
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling | Fujiwara no Tsugunari ⓘ |
| socialClass | kuge ⓘ |
| spouse | Emperor Kanmu ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | emperor of Japan ⓘ |
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 Otomuro Description of subject: Fujiwara no Otomuro was a noblewoman of Japan’s powerful Fujiwara clan who became an empress consort during the early Heian period.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.