Barefoot Gen (TV drama)
E1024336
Barefoot Gen (TV drama) is a Japanese television adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa’s autobiographical manga depicting a boy’s harrowing experiences during and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barefoot Gen (TV drama) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13146068 — 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: Barefoot Gen (TV drama) Context triple: [Kenichi Matsuyama, notableWork, Barefoot Gen (TV drama)]
-
A.
Okehazama no Tatakai
Okehazama no Tatakai is a pivotal 1560 battle in Japan in which the outnumbered Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto, marking the beginning of Nobunaga’s rise to power.
-
B.
Mibu no Tadamine
Mibu no Tadamine was a prominent early Heian-period Japanese waka poet and courtier, known as one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry and an influential contributor to classical Japanese verse.
-
C.
La Vita Jiyūgaoka
La Vita Jiyūgaoka is a small, Venice-themed shopping and leisure complex in Tokyo’s Jiyūgaoka district, known for its canals, gondola, and stylish boutiques and cafés.
-
D.
Okusha Hohaisho
Okusha Hohaisho is an inner worship hall at Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine complex, serving as a key site for venerating the Inari deity.
-
E.
Bōsai no Hi
Bōsai no Hi is Japan’s annual Disaster Prevention Day, observed on September 1 to promote public awareness and preparedness for natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
- 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: Barefoot Gen (TV drama) Target entity description: Barefoot Gen (TV drama) is a Japanese television adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa’s autobiographical manga depicting a boy’s harrowing experiences during and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
-
A.
Okehazama no Tatakai
Okehazama no Tatakai is a pivotal 1560 battle in Japan in which the outnumbered Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto, marking the beginning of Nobunaga’s rise to power.
-
B.
Mibu no Tadamine
Mibu no Tadamine was a prominent early Heian-period Japanese waka poet and courtier, known as one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry and an influential contributor to classical Japanese verse.
-
C.
La Vita Jiyūgaoka
La Vita Jiyūgaoka is a small, Venice-themed shopping and leisure complex in Tokyo’s Jiyūgaoka district, known for its canals, gondola, and stylish boutiques and cafés.
-
D.
Okusha Hohaisho
Okusha Hohaisho is an inner worship hall at Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine complex, serving as a key site for venerating the Inari deity.
-
E.
Bōsai no Hi
Bōsai no Hi is Japan’s annual Disaster Prevention Day, observed on September 1 to promote public awareness and preparedness for natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Japanese television drama ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | autobiographical manga ⓘ |
| basedOn | Barefoot Gen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Keiji Nakazawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | manga ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| depictsEvent | atomic bombing of Hiroshima ⓘ |
| depictsTimePeriod |
World War II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
post–World War II Japan ⓘ |
| genre |
historical drama
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ war drama ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Gen Nakaoka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistAge | child ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOfAutobiographicalWork | true ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Hiroshima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| portrays |
experiences of a young boy during atomic bombing of Hiroshima
ⓘ
life in Hiroshima after atomic bombing ⓘ |
| theme |
aftermath of war
ⓘ
anti-war message ⓘ civilian suffering in war ⓘ nuclear warfare ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| workOriginAuthorBackground | Keiji Nakazawa was a Hiroshima bombing survivor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Barefoot Gen (TV drama) Description of subject: Barefoot Gen (TV drama) is a Japanese television adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa’s autobiographical manga depicting a boy’s harrowing experiences during and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.