Himegami
E479479
Himegami is a Shinto deity venerated in Japan, associated with sacred shrines and traditional religious worship.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Himegami canonical | 6 |
| Shirayama Hime Okami | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4910175 — 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: Himegami Context triple: [Kasuga Taisha, dedicatedTo, Himegami]
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A.
Kushinadahime
Kushinadahime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, best known as the rescued maiden whom the storm god Susanoo marries after saving her from the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi.
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B.
Tokihime
Tokihime was an aristocratic woman of Japan’s Heian period, best known as the mother of the powerful court noble Fujiwara no Michinaga.
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C.
Tamayori-hime
Tamayori-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, often associated with water and the sea, revered as the mother of Japan’s legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
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D.
Himetatara Isuzuhime
Himetatara Isuzuhime is a legendary figure in Japanese mythology known as the consort of Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
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E.
Otohime
Otohime is a figure from Japanese legend associated with the warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune, sometimes depicted as his daughter in later literary and folkloric traditions.
- 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: Himegami Target entity description: Himegami is a Shinto deity venerated in Japan, associated with sacred shrines and traditional religious worship.
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A.
Kushinadahime
Kushinadahime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, best known as the rescued maiden whom the storm god Susanoo marries after saving her from the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi.
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B.
Tokihime
Tokihime was an aristocratic woman of Japan’s Heian period, best known as the mother of the powerful court noble Fujiwara no Michinaga.
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C.
Tamayori-hime
Tamayori-hime is a goddess in Japanese mythology, often associated with water and the sea, revered as the mother of Japan’s legendary first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
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D.
Himetatara Isuzuhime
Himetatara Isuzuhime is a legendary figure in Japanese mythology known as the consort of Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
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E.
Otohime
Otohime is a figure from Japanese legend associated with the warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune, sometimes depicted as his daughter in later literary and folkloric traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Shinto deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Shinto shrines
ⓘ
ritual worship ⓘ sacred places ⓘ |
| countryOfVeneration | Japan ⓘ |
| cultCenter | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese culture ⓘ |
| gender | female deity ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
religion
ⓘ
traditional worship ⓘ |
| hasType | kami ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| partOf |
Japanese mythology
ⓘ
Shinto pantheon ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| scriptOfName | Japanese script ⓘ |
| veneratedBy |
Japanese people
ⓘ
Shinto practitioners ⓘ |
| worshippedIn | Shinto shrines ⓘ |
| worshipType | traditional religious worship ⓘ |
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: Himegami Description of subject: Himegami is a Shinto deity venerated in Japan, associated with sacred shrines and traditional religious worship.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Himegami