Utagawa Kunisada II
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Utagawa Kunisada II was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist of the late Edo and early Meiji periods, known for his actor portraits and continuation of the Utagawa school style.
All labels observed (1)
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| Utagawa Kunisada II canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16639314 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Utagawa Kunisada II Context triple: [Utagawa school, hasMember, Utagawa Kunisada II]
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Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada was a prolific and commercially successful Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist of the Edo period, renowned especially for his portraits of kabuki actors and bijin-ga (images of beautiful women).
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Utagawa Toyokuni II
Utagawa Toyokuni II was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Utagawa school, known for his woodblock prints depicting kabuki actors and popular urban culture in the early 19th century.
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C.
Kuniyoshi
Kuniyoshi is a Japanese surname most notably associated with influential artists such as painter and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
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D.
Kuni no miya Kunisada
Kuni no miya Kunisada was a Japanese imperial prince of the collateral Kuni-no-miya house, part of the extended family of the Emperor of Japan.
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E.
Utagawa Kunimaru
Utagawa Kunimaru was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period, known for his woodblock prints and association with the influential Utagawa school.
- 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: Utagawa Kunisada II Target entity description: Utagawa Kunisada II was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist of the late Edo and early Meiji periods, known for his actor portraits and continuation of the Utagawa school style.
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A.
Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada was a prolific and commercially successful Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist of the Edo period, renowned especially for his portraits of kabuki actors and bijin-ga (images of beautiful women).
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B.
Utagawa Toyokuni II
Utagawa Toyokuni II was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Utagawa school, known for his woodblock prints depicting kabuki actors and popular urban culture in the early 19th century.
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C.
Kuniyoshi
Kuniyoshi is a Japanese surname most notably associated with influential artists such as painter and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
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D.
Kuni no miya Kunisada
Kuni no miya Kunisada was a Japanese imperial prince of the collateral Kuni-no-miya house, part of the extended family of the Emperor of Japan.
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E.
Utagawa Kunimaru
Utagawa Kunimaru was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period, known for his woodblock prints and association with the influential Utagawa school.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.