Wadō
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Wadō was a Japanese era of the early Nara period, notable for the discovery of copper in Chichibu and the issuance of Japan’s first official coinage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wadō canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8182751 — 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: Wadō Context triple: [Empress Genmei, eraName, Wadō]
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A.
Ishkashimi
Ishkashimi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by small communities in parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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B.
Yashio
Yashio is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, located on the outskirts of Tokyo and functioning largely as a residential commuter town.
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C.
Yashio
Yashio is a district in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, known primarily as a modern waterfront residential and commercial area.
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D.
Shikaoi
Shikaoi is a rural town in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its natural scenery, agriculture, and access to outdoor activities such as hiking and hot springs.
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E.
Kunai-chō
Kunai-chō is the Japanese term for the Imperial Household Agency, the government body responsible for matters related to Japan’s Imperial Family and imperial properties.
- 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: Wadō Target entity description: Wadō was a Japanese era of the early Nara period, notable for the discovery of copper in Chichibu and the issuance of Japan’s first official coinage.
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A.
Ishkashimi
Ishkashimi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by small communities in parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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B.
Yashio
Yashio is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, located on the outskirts of Tokyo and functioning largely as a residential commuter town.
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C.
Yashio
Yashio is a district in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, known primarily as a modern waterfront residential and commercial area.
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D.
Shikaoi
Shikaoi is a rural town in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its natural scenery, agriculture, and access to outdoor activities such as hiking and hot springs.
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E.
Kunai-chō
Kunai-chō is the Japanese term for the Imperial Household Agency, the government body responsible for matters related to Japan’s Imperial Family and imperial properties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era name
ⓘ
nengō ⓘ |
| associatedCoinage | Wadōkaichin ⓘ |
| calendarType | Japanese era calendar ⓘ |
| capital |
Fujiwara-kyō
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linked to:
Fujiwara-kyō site
Heijō-kyō ⓘ
linked to:
Nara
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| coinageSignificance | first official coinage of Japan ⓘ |
| coinageType | copper coin ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| economicContext | early Japanese monetary economy ⓘ |
| endYear | 715 ⓘ |
| eraChangeReason | auspicious discovery of native copper ⓘ |
| eraNameMeaning | Japanese copper ⓘ |
| eraNumber | 4th Japanese era after Taika ⓘ |
| follows | Keiun ⓘ |
| modernLocationOfDiscoverySite | Saitama Prefecture ⓘ |
| namedAfter | discovery of copper in Chichibu ⓘ |
| notableFor |
discovery of copper in Chichibu Province
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issuance of Japan’s first official coinage ⓘ |
| period | Nara period ⓘ |
| politicalContext | centralized ritsuryō state ⓘ |
| precedes | Reiki ⓘ |
| provinceOfCopperDiscovery | Musashi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfCopperDiscovery | Chichibu District ⓘ |
| reigningMonarch | Empress Genmei ⓘ |
| religionContext | Buddhism in Japan ⓘ |
| scriptUsedForName | kanji ⓘ |
| startYear | 708 ⓘ |
| usedIn | dating of official documents ⓘ |
| writingSystem | classical Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Wadō Description of subject: Wadō was a Japanese era of the early Nara period, notable for the discovery of copper in Chichibu and the issuance of Japan’s first official coinage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.