Uesugi Norimasa
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Uesugi Norimasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and head of the Uesugi clan, known as the adoptive father and predecessor of the famed warlord Uesugi Kenshin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uesugi Norimasa canonical | 3 |
| Lord of the Uesugi clan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10978524 — 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: Uesugi Norimasa Context triple: [Uesugi clan, notableMember, Uesugi Norimasa]
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A.
Uesugi Kagekatsu
Uesugi Kagekatsu was a prominent Sengoku and early Edo period daimyō who inherited leadership of the Uesugi clan and became a key opponent of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign.
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B.
Kuroda Nagamasa
Kuroda Nagamasa was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō, known for his military leadership, political acumen, and role in consolidating Tokugawa power.
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Azai Nagamasa
Azai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō known for his alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga, as well as for being the husband of Nobunaga’s sister Oichi.
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D.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
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E.
Katō Kiyomasa
Katō Kiyomasa was a prominent Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and military leader renowned for his fierce samurai discipline, castle-building expertise, and major role in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasions of Korea.
- 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: Uesugi Norimasa Target entity description: Uesugi Norimasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and head of the Uesugi clan, known as the adoptive father and predecessor of the famed warlord Uesugi Kenshin.
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A.
Uesugi Kagekatsu
Uesugi Kagekatsu was a prominent Sengoku and early Edo period daimyō who inherited leadership of the Uesugi clan and became a key opponent of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara campaign.
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B.
Kuroda Nagamasa
Kuroda Nagamasa was a prominent late Sengoku and early Edo period Japanese daimyō, known for his military leadership, political acumen, and role in consolidating Tokugawa power.
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C.
Azai Nagamasa
Azai Nagamasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō known for his alliance and later conflict with Oda Nobunaga, as well as for being the husband of Nobunaga’s sister Oichi.
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D.
Ōmura Sumitada
Ōmura Sumitada was a 16th-century Japanese daimyō known as one of the first Christian feudal lords in Japan and for opening Nagasaki as a major port and center of Catholic missionary activity.
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E.
Katō Kiyomasa
Katō Kiyomasa was a prominent Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and military leader renowned for his fierce samurai discipline, castle-building expertise, and major role in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasions of Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese daimyō
ⓘ
Sengoku-period person ⓘ head of clan ⓘ |
| adopted | Nagao Kagetora ⓘ |
| adoptiveFatherOf | Uesugi Kenshin ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations | Kantō region ⓘ |
| clan | Uesugi clan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | Samurai ⓘ |
| enemy |
Later Hōjō clan
ⓘ
linked to:
Late Hōjō clan
|
| era | Sengoku period ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Uesugi ⓘ |
| house | Uesugi clan ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryRole | warlord ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being head of the Yamanouchi-Uesugi branch
ⓘ
being predecessor of Uesugi Kenshin ⓘ conflict with Hōjō clan ⓘ losing influence in the Kantō to the Hōjō ⓘ role in power struggles in the Kantō ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Kantō Kanrei ⓘ |
| predecessor | Uesugi Akisada ⓘ |
| regionRuled | parts of the Kantō region ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| socialClass | daimyō ⓘ |
| soughtAssistanceFrom | Nagao Kagetora ⓘ |
| successor | Uesugi Kenshin ⓘ |
| title |
Kantō Kanrei
ⓘ
Lord of the Uesugi clan ⓘ
linked to:
Uesugi Norimasa
|
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: Uesugi Norimasa Description of subject: Uesugi Norimasa was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and head of the Uesugi clan, known as the adoptive father and predecessor of the famed warlord Uesugi Kenshin.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Uesugi Norimasa