Dengyō Daishi
E406527
Dengyō Daishi, also known as Saichō, was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who established the influential Tendai school on Mount Hiei and helped shape the course of Japanese Buddhism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dengyō Daishi canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4007295 — 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: Dengyō Daishi Context triple: [Tendai Buddhism, founderReligiousName, Dengyō Daishi]
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A.
Daijō-daijin
Daijō-daijin was the highest ministerial post in Japan’s ancient imperial government, effectively serving as the head of the Daijō-kan (Great Council of State) under the ritsuryō system.
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B.
Nakae Chōmin
Nakae Chōmin was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese political thinker, journalist, and translator who helped introduce Western liberal ideas to Japan and became a leading advocate for democracy and civil rights.
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C.
Tōshō
Tōshō is the commonly used Japanese abbreviation for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one of the world’s largest and most influential stock markets.
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D.
Sōri Daijin
Sōri Daijin is the Japanese term for the Prime Minister, the head of government and chief executive authority of Japan.
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E.
Tennō
Tennō is the Japanese term for the Emperor of Japan, regarded as the ceremonial and symbolic monarch and, in tradition, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
- 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: Dengyō Daishi Target entity description: Dengyō Daishi, also known as Saichō, was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who established the influential Tendai school on Mount Hiei and helped shape the course of Japanese Buddhism.
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A.
Daijō-daijin
Daijō-daijin was the highest ministerial post in Japan’s ancient imperial government, effectively serving as the head of the Daijō-kan (Great Council of State) under the ritsuryō system.
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B.
Nakae Chōmin
Nakae Chōmin was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese political thinker, journalist, and translator who helped introduce Western liberal ideas to Japan and became a leading advocate for democracy and civil rights.
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C.
Tōshō
Tōshō is the commonly used Japanese abbreviation for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one of the world’s largest and most influential stock markets.
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D.
Sōri Daijin
Sōri Daijin is the Japanese term for the Prime Minister, the head of government and chief executive authority of Japan.
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E.
Tennō
Tennō is the Japanese term for the Emperor of Japan, regarded as the ceremonial and symbolic monarch and, in tradition, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese Buddhist monk
ⓘ
founder of a Buddhist school ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
early Heian period
ⓘ
linked to:
Heian period
|
| associatedTemple | Enryaku-ji ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
present-day Shiga Prefecture, Japan
ⓘ
Ōmi Province ⓘ |
| birthYear | 767 ⓘ |
| broughtBack |
Tiantai teachings from China
ⓘ
esoteric Buddhist practices ⓘ |
| BuddhistSchool | Tendai ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of Japanese esoteric Buddhism
ⓘ
formation of Japanese Tendai Buddhism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathYear | 822 ⓘ |
| era | Heian period ⓘ |
| establishedTemple | Enryaku-ji ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Tendai school of Buddhism in Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Tendai Buddhism
|
| honorificName | Dengyō Daishi ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Tiantai Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Tiantai school
Zhiyi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
establishing Tendai school on Mount Hiei
ⓘ
shaping the course of Japanese Buddhism ⓘ |
| language |
Classical Chinese
ⓘ
Classical Japanese ⓘ |
| legacy |
Tendai became one of the most influential schools in Japanese Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Tendai Buddhism
many later Japanese Buddhist leaders trained in Tendai tradition ⓘ |
| monasticResidence | Mount Hiei ⓘ |
| name | Saichō ⓘ |
| ordination | Buddhist monk ⓘ |
| ordinationPlatformLocation | Mount Hiei ⓘ |
| philosophicalFocus | universal Buddhahood based on the Lotus Sutra ⓘ |
| posthumousTitle | Dengyō Daishi ⓘ |
| posthumousTitleGrantedBy | Emperor Daigo ⓘ |
| posthumousTitleYear | 866 ⓘ |
| promotedPractice |
integrated study and meditation
ⓘ
monastic discipline ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Kyoto region
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto Prefecture
Mount Hiei area ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| requestedFromImperialCourt | independent Mahayana ordination platform ⓘ |
| returnedToJapanYear | 805 ⓘ |
| studiedText |
Lotus Sutra
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linked to:
Lotus Sūtra
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| teacherOf |
Enchin
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Ennin ⓘ Gishin ⓘ |
| traveledTo |
Tang China
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linked to:
Tang dynasty
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| travelYear | 804 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dengyō Daishi Description of subject: Dengyō Daishi, also known as Saichō, was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who established the influential Tendai school on Mount Hiei and helped shape the course of Japanese Buddhism.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.