Yomi
E605685
Yomi is the shadowy land of the dead in Japanese mythology, often depicted as a gloomy underworld where the deceased reside.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yomi canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6536193 — 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: Yomi Context triple: [Izanagi, visited, Yomi]
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A.
Tezu
Tezu is a prominent town in northeastern India known as an important administrative and cultural center in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.
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B.
Teimei
Teimei is the posthumous name of the Japanese empress consort of Emperor Taishō, who served as Empress of Japan in the early 20th century.
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C.
Keiyo
Keiyo is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Keiyo people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.
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D.
Sachinomiya
Sachinomiya was the childhood name of Emperor Meiji, the Japanese monarch who oversaw the country's rapid modernization and the Meiji Restoration.
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E.
Kashiwa
Kashiwa is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, known as a residential and commercial hub within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
- 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: Yomi Target entity description: Yomi is the shadowy land of the dead in Japanese mythology, often depicted as a gloomy underworld where the deceased reside.
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A.
Tezu
Tezu is a prominent town in northeastern India known as an important administrative and cultural center in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.
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B.
Teimei
Teimei is the posthumous name of the Japanese empress consort of Emperor Taishō, who served as Empress of Japan in the early 20th century.
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C.
Keiyo
Keiyo is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Keiyo people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.
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D.
Sachinomiya
Sachinomiya was the childhood name of Emperor Meiji, the Japanese monarch who oversaw the country's rapid modernization and the Meiji Restoration.
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E.
Kashiwa
Kashiwa is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, known as a residential and commercial hub within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
afterlife realm
ⓘ
location in Japanese mythology ⓘ mythological place ⓘ underworld ⓘ |
| accessRestrictedBy | taboo on returning from the dead ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Izanami ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
darkness
ⓘ
death ⓘ impurity ⓘ |
| category |
Japanese legendary place
ⓘ
mythological underworld ⓘ |
| connectedTo | world of the living ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Takama-ga-hara
ⓘ
linked to:
Takamagahara
heaven ⓘ |
| cosmicPosition | under the earth in mythic cosmology ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRole | one of the realms of existence ⓘ |
| culture | Japanese ⓘ |
| describedAs |
gloomy underworld
ⓘ
shadowy land of the dead ⓘ |
| entranceLocation | Yomotsu Hirasaka ⓘ |
| etymology | often written with characters for "yellow springs" (黄泉) ⓘ |
| exitBlockedBy | boulder at Yomotsu Hirasaka ⓘ |
| function | realm where the deceased reside ⓘ |
| governedBy | Izanami ⓘ |
| hasGate | Yomotsu Hirasaka ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
absence of sunlight
ⓘ
eternal gloom ⓘ |
| influenced | later Japanese views of the afterlife ⓘ |
| inhabitants | spirits of the dead ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Kojiki
ⓘ
Nihon Shoki ⓘ |
| moralAssociation | pollution of death ⓘ |
| mythicEvent | origin of ritual purification after Izanagi returns ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | place where Izanagi seeks Izanami ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | separation of living and dead ⓘ |
| perceivedAs | unclean place ⓘ |
| realmType | land of the dead ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Ne-no-kuni
ⓘ
Tokoyo no Kuni ⓘ
linked to:
Ne-no-kuni
|
| religion |
Japanese mythology
ⓘ
Shinto ⓘ |
| separatedFrom |
Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni
ⓘ
Takama-ga-hara ⓘ
linked to:
Takamagahara
|
| symbolizes | irreversibility of death ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Izanagi ⓘ |
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: Yomi Description of subject: Yomi is the shadowy land of the dead in Japanese mythology, often depicted as a gloomy underworld where the deceased reside.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tachibana River in Himuka (as named in some traditions)
subject linked to:
Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni (Middle Land of Reed Plains)
subject linked to:
Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni (Middle Land of Reed Plains)