Curtis please do not call an article from Encyclopedia Britannica a dictionary article And no I don t approve of removing reference to the Hojo s Taira ancestry from this sentence as that would likely lead to our readers drawing the same inaccurate conclusion you did that the Taira clan had been exterminated The fact that it is also mentioned later is immaterial Also it would appear that the Hojo were in fact descended from the Ise branch specifically so the issue is even muddier than I thought and my wording extinguished is also potentially problematic