Ueda Akinari
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Ueda Akinari was an influential Edo-period Japanese author and scholar best known for his classical ghost-story collection "Ugetsu Monogatari" and his contributions to kokugaku (national learning).
All labels observed (1)
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| Ueda Akinari canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17086029 — 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: Ueda Akinari Context triple: [Edo literature, notableAuthor, Ueda Akinari]
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Andō Tokutarō
Andō Tokutarō, better known as Utagawa Hiroshige, was a renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist celebrated for his evocative landscape prints, especially the series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō."
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Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku was a pioneering Japanese author of the Edo period, best known for his witty, realistic portrayals of urban merchant life and the pleasure quarters.
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C.
Ō no Yasumaro
Ō no Yasumaro was an early 8th-century Japanese noble and scholar best known for compiling the Kojiki, one of Japan’s oldest extant chronicles of myths, legends, and early history.
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D.
Kenji Sōchō
Kenji Sōchō is the formal Japanese title used to refer to the Prosecutor-General, the highest-ranking official in Japan’s public prosecution system.
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E.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
- 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: Ueda Akinari Target entity description: Ueda Akinari was an influential Edo-period Japanese author and scholar best known for his classical ghost-story collection "Ugetsu Monogatari" and his contributions to kokugaku (national learning).
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A.
Andō Tokutarō
Andō Tokutarō, better known as Utagawa Hiroshige, was a renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist celebrated for his evocative landscape prints, especially the series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō."
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B.
Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku was a pioneering Japanese author of the Edo period, best known for his witty, realistic portrayals of urban merchant life and the pleasure quarters.
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C.
Ō no Yasumaro
Ō no Yasumaro was an early 8th-century Japanese noble and scholar best known for compiling the Kojiki, one of Japan’s oldest extant chronicles of myths, legends, and early history.
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D.
Kenji Sōchō
Kenji Sōchō is the formal Japanese title used to refer to the Prosecutor-General, the highest-ranking official in Japan’s public prosecution system.
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E.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.