Uesugi Tomooki
E905372
Uesugi Tomooki was a samurai lord of Japan’s Sengoku period, known for his role as a retainer of the Uesugi clan and his involvement in regional power struggles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uesugi Tomooki canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10978526 — 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 Tomooki Context triple: [Uesugi clan, notableMember, Uesugi Tomooki]
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A.
Uesugi Norimasa
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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B.
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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C.
Ugaki Kazushige
Ugaki Kazushige was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a prominent imperial administrator during Japan’s pre-World War II expansion.
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D.
Tanaka Hidemitsu
Tanaka Hidemitsu was a Japanese novelist and essayist known for his introspective, often autobiographical works that explored postwar Japanese society and personal alienation.
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E.
Konishi Yukinaga
Konishi Yukinaga was a prominent late Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and Christian convert who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi as a leading commander during the Imjin War against 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 Tomooki Target entity description: Uesugi Tomooki was a samurai lord of Japan’s Sengoku period, known for his role as a retainer of the Uesugi clan and his involvement in regional power struggles.
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A.
Uesugi Norimasa
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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B.
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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C.
Ugaki Kazushige
Ugaki Kazushige was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a prominent imperial administrator during Japan’s pre-World War II expansion.
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D.
Tanaka Hidemitsu
Tanaka Hidemitsu was a Japanese novelist and essayist known for his introspective, often autobiographical works that explored postwar Japanese society and personal alienation.
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E.
Konishi Yukinaga
Konishi Yukinaga was a prominent late Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō and Christian convert who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi as a leading commander during the Imjin War against Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese noble
ⓘ
Sengoku-period person ⓘ daimyo ⓘ samurai ⓘ |
| activity | regional power struggles in Japan ⓘ |
| allegiance | Uesugi clan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sengoku regional rivalries
ⓘ
linked to:
Mōri–Ōuchi conflicts
Uesugi clan internal politics ⓘ |
| clan | Uesugi clan ⓘ |
| conflictType | feudal warfare ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culture | samurai culture ⓘ |
| era | Sengoku period ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | feudal Japan ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lord ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | daimyo ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in Sengoku-period conflicts ⓘ |
| occupation |
samurai
ⓘ
warlord ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | feudalism ⓘ |
| powerBase |
Uesugi clan territories
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linked to:
Uesugi clan
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| role | retainer of the Uesugi clan ⓘ |
| socialClass | bushi ⓘ |
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 Tomooki Description of subject: Uesugi Tomooki was a samurai lord of Japan’s Sengoku period, known for his role as a retainer of the Uesugi clan and his involvement in regional power struggles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.