Kodai-in
E639619
Kodai-in, better known as Nene, was the principal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and a prominent noblewoman who later became a respected Buddhist nun and patron of temples in Japan’s late Sengoku period.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6864481 — 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: Kodai-in Context triple: [Nene, alsoKnownAs, Kodai-in]
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A.
Yamashina-dera
Yamashina-dera was an early Buddhist temple in Japan that served as the predecessor and original site of the influential Kōfuku-ji temple associated with the powerful Fujiwara clan.
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B.
Ishiyama-dera
Ishiyama-dera is a historic Buddhist temple in Japan renowned for its autumn foliage, cultural treasures, and association with the author of The Tale of Genji.
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C.
Ninna-ji
Ninna-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its imperial connections, traditional architecture, and late-blooming cherry blossoms.
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D.
Ryōzenji
Ryōzenji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, best known as the traditional starting point of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage.
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E.
Kozan-ji
Kozan-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its ancient cultural treasures and inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage listing of Kyoto’s monuments.
- 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: Kodai-in Target entity description: Kodai-in, better known as Nene, was the principal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and a prominent noblewoman who later became a respected Buddhist nun and patron of temples in Japan’s late Sengoku period.
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A.
Yamashina-dera
Yamashina-dera was an early Buddhist temple in Japan that served as the predecessor and original site of the influential Kōfuku-ji temple associated with the powerful Fujiwara clan.
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B.
Ishiyama-dera
Ishiyama-dera is a historic Buddhist temple in Japan renowned for its autumn foliage, cultural treasures, and association with the author of The Tale of Genji.
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C.
Ninna-ji
Ninna-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its imperial connections, traditional architecture, and late-blooming cherry blossoms.
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D.
Ryōzenji
Ryōzenji is a Buddhist temple in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, best known as the traditional starting point of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage.
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E.
Kozan-ji
Kozan-ji is a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, renowned for its ancient cultural treasures and inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage listing of Kyoto’s monuments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist nun
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Japanese noblewoman ⓘ Sengoku-period person ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| activity |
religious patronage
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support of temple construction and maintenance ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kita no Mandokoro
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Nene ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buddhist clergy
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Kyoto ⓘ Toyotomi clan ⓘ |
| convertedTo | Buddhist nun later in life ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| era | 16th-century Japan ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late Sengoku political unification of Japan ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Kita no Mandokoro ⓘ |
| influenced | religious and cultural life of late Sengoku Japan ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Toyotomi Hideyoshi ⓘ |
| nobleRank | kugyō consort ⓘ |
| notableFor |
becoming a respected Buddhist nun
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influence at Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s court ⓘ patronage of Buddhist temples ⓘ |
| patronOf |
Buddhist temples
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monastic communities ⓘ |
| period |
Azuchi–Momoyama period
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Sengoku period ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| role |
political mediator
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principal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi ⓘ temple patron ⓘ |
| socialStatus | high-ranking noblewoman ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | imperial court and warrior elite ⓘ |
| spouse | Toyotomi Hideyoshi ⓘ |
| titleAfterOrdination | Kodai-in ⓘ |
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: Kodai-in Description of subject: Kodai-in, better known as Nene, was the principal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and a prominent noblewoman who later became a respected Buddhist nun and patron of temples in Japan’s late Sengoku period.
Referenced by (6)
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