Sue clan
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The Sue clan was a Japanese samurai family that held feudal power during the Sengoku period before its influence waned under later domains such as Chōshū.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sue clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6656607 — 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: Sue clan Context triple: [Chōshū Domain, formerRulingClan, Sue clan]
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A.
Snipe clan
The Snipe clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, associated with the snipe bird and integral to their social and kinship structure.
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B.
Heron clan
The Heron clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
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C.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
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D.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
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E.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
- 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: Sue clan Target entity description: The Sue clan was a Japanese samurai family that held feudal power during the Sengoku period before its influence waned under later domains such as Chōshū.
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A.
Snipe clan
The Snipe clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, associated with the snipe bird and integral to their social and kinship structure.
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B.
Heron clan
The Heron clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
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C.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
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D.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
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E.
Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese clan
ⓘ
samurai clan ⓘ |
| activity |
feudal governance
ⓘ
warfare ⓘ |
| associatedWith | samurai warfare ⓘ |
| class | samurai ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| era |
Age of Warring States
ⓘ
linked to:
Warring States period
|
| ethnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| governanceForm | clan-based rule ⓘ |
| heldPowerDuring | Sengoku period ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Sengoku period ⓘ |
| influenceDeclinedUnder | Chōshū Domain ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Honshu ⓘ |
| militaryRole | daimyo retainers ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | feudal lords ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | feudalism ⓘ |
| region | western Japan ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Shinto ⓘ |
| socialClass | buke ⓘ |
| statusChange | loss of influence ⓘ |
| successorPower | Chōshū Domain ⓘ |
| typeOfPower | feudal power ⓘ |
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: Sue clan Description of subject: The Sue clan was a Japanese samurai family that held feudal power during the Sengoku period before its influence waned under later domains such as Chōshū.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.