義天玄承
E951645
義天玄承 was a Japanese Buddhist monk best known for founding the Zen temple Ryōan-ji in Kyoto, famous for its iconic rock garden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 義天玄承 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11857171 — 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: 義天玄承 Context triple: [龍安寺, founder, 義天玄承]
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A.
風雷神門
風雷神門 is the large, iconic inscription on the central red lantern of Tokyo’s Kaminarimon gate, symbolizing the “Gate of Thunder and Lightning Gods” at Sensō-ji Temple in Asakusa.
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B.
乾門
乾門は、東京都千代田区にある皇居の北西側に位置する主要な門の一つで、一般参観や特別公開時の出入口として利用される施設である。
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C.
勝也
勝也 is a masculine Japanese given name typically written with kanji conveying meanings related to "victory" or "winning."
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D.
龍驤
龍驤 was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in the early years of World War II, including in the Pacific Theater, before being sunk in 1942.
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E.
赤門
赤門（Akamon, the Red Gate）is a historic vermilion-painted gate in Tokyo, best known as a symbol of the University of Tokyo and an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
- 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: 義天玄承 Target entity description: 義天玄承 was a Japanese Buddhist monk best known for founding the Zen temple Ryōan-ji in Kyoto, famous for its iconic rock garden.
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A.
風雷神門
風雷神門 is the large, iconic inscription on the central red lantern of Tokyo’s Kaminarimon gate, symbolizing the “Gate of Thunder and Lightning Gods” at Sensō-ji Temple in Asakusa.
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B.
乾門
乾門は、東京都千代田区にある皇居の北西側に位置する主要な門の一つで、一般参観や特別公開時の出入口として利用される施設である。
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C.
勝也
勝也 is a masculine Japanese given name typically written with kanji conveying meanings related to "victory" or "winning."
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D.
龍驤
龍驤 was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in the early years of World War II, including in the Pacific Theater, before being sunk in 1942.
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E.
赤門
赤門（Akamon, the Red Gate）is a historic vermilion-painted gate in Tokyo, best known as a symbol of the University of Tokyo and an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist priest
ⓘ
Japanese Buddhist monk ⓘ Japanese rock garden ⓘ Zen Buddhist temple ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the rock garden of Ryōan-ji
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founding the Zen temple Ryōan-ji ⓘ rock garden ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kyoto
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Ryōan-ji ⓘ
linked to:
Ryoan-ji
|
| notableWork |
Ryōan-ji
ⓘ
linked to:
Ryoan-ji
|
| occupation |
monk
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temple founder ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Zen Buddhism ⓘ |
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: 義天玄承 Description of subject: 義天玄承 was a Japanese Buddhist monk best known for founding the Zen temple Ryōan-ji in Kyoto, famous for its iconic rock garden.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.