Ken Watanabe

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Ken Watanabe is a renowned Japanese actor known internationally for his powerful performances in films such as "The Last Samurai," "Inception," and "Letters from Iwo Jima."

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Ken Watanabe canonical 13
Ken Watanabe (decoy in Batman Begins) 1
渡辺謙 1

Statements (58)

Predicate Object
instanceOf actor
film actor
human
stage actor
television actor
agent Ken-On Group
awardReceived Academy Award nomination
surface form: Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor

Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor
Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor
surface form: Japan Academy Prize for Best Supporting Actor

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
surface form: Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical
birthDate 1959-10-21
birthPlace Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
child Anne Watanabe
countryOfCitizenship Japan
familyName Watanabe
gender male
givenName Ken
hasHealthIssue leukemia
stomach cancer
knownFor international film roles
portrayal of samurai and military figures
powerful screen presence
languageSpoken Japanese
name Ken Watanabe self-link
nationality Japanese
nativeName 渡辺謙
notableWork Batman Begins
Dokuganryū Masamune
Godzilla (2014 film)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Tokugawa Ieyasu
surface form: Ieyasu Tokugawa (role)

Inception
Letters from Iwo Jima
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memories of Tomorrow
Oda Nobunaga
surface form: Oda Nobunaga (role)

Rage
Ran
Shizumanu Taiyō
Silence
Taira no Kiyomori
surface form: Taira no Kiyomori (role)

Tampopo
The King and I
surface form: The King and I (Broadway revival)

The Last Samurai
The Sea of Trees
The Sun Also Rises (Japanese TV drama)
Unbroken
surface form: The Unbroken

Yukie
occupation actor
spouse Kaho Minami
Yukari Sugi
workedWith Christopher Nolan
Clint Eastwood
Edward Zwick
Leonardo DiCaprio
Martin Scorsese
Tom Cruise
yearsActive late 1970s–present

How these facts were elicited

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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: Ken Watanabe
Description of subject: Ken Watanabe is a renowned Japanese actor known internationally for his powerful performances in films such as "The Last Samurai," "Inception," and "Letters from Iwo Jima."

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tadamichi Kuribayashi portrayedBy Ken Watanabe
Inception starring Ken Watanabe
Batman Begins stars Ken Watanabe
Godzilla (2014 film) stars Ken Watanabe
Tokyo Vice castMember Ken Watanabe
栗林忠道 映画での役者 Ken Watanabe
this entity surface form: 渡辺謙
Ken Watanabe name Ken Watanabe self-link
Letters from Iwo Jima leadActor Ken Watanabe
Letters from Iwo Jima castMember Ken Watanabe
Ra's al Ghul portrayedBy Ken Watanabe
this entity surface form: Ken Watanabe (decoy in Batman Begins)
The Last Samurai castMember Ken Watanabe
film "Inception" portrayedBy Ken Watanabe
subject surface form: Inception