Atsuko
E144461
Atsuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women and princesses in Japan, with meanings that vary depending on the kanji used.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atsuko canonical | 1 |
| Atsuko (あつこ in hiragana) | 1 |
| Atsuko (アツコ in katakana) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T947712 — 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: Atsuko Context triple: [Princess Atsuko, givenName, Atsuko]
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A.
Yuriko
Yuriko is the given name of Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, known for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Kazuko
Kazuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women, including members of the imperial family.
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C.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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D.
Takako Doi
Takako Doi was a pioneering Japanese politician who became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives and a prominent leader of Japan’s socialist and opposition politics in the late 20th century.
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E.
Sanae Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese conservative politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in several ministerial posts and is known for her bids for party leadership and advocacy of hawkish security and traditionalist social policies.
- 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: Atsuko Target entity description: Atsuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women and princesses in Japan, with meanings that vary depending on the kanji used.
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A.
Yuriko
Yuriko is the given name of Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, known for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Kazuko
Kazuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women, including members of the imperial family.
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C.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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D.
Takako Doi
Takako Doi was a pioneering Japanese politician who became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives and a prominent leader of Japan’s socialist and opposition politics in the late 20th century.
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E.
Sanae Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese conservative politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in several ministerial posts and is known for her bids for party leadership and advocacy of hawkish security and traditionalist social policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| culturalUsage | commonly used as a personal name for females in Japan ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalElement |
atsu (can mean “warm”, “kind”, “honest”, or “thick” depending on kanji)
ⓘ
ko (child) ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Atsuko
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Atsuko (あつこ in hiragana)
Atsuko self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Atsuko (アツコ in katakana)
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| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| meaningDependsOn | kanji used ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
Feminine given names
ⓘ
Japanese feminine given names ⓘ |
| nameComponent |
Atsu
ⓘ
ko ⓘ |
| nameStructure | two-mora Japanese given name ending with -ko ⓘ |
| possibleMeaning |
“honest child” (depending on kanji)
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“kind child” (depending on kanji) ⓘ “warm child” (depending on kanji) ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | written vertically or horizontally in Japanese texts ⓘ |
| suffixMeaning | ko means “child” in Japanese given names ⓘ |
| typicalBearer |
Japanese princesses
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women in Japan ⓘ |
| usedAs | first name ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
hiragana
ⓘ
kanji ⓘ katakana ⓘ |
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: Atsuko Description of subject: Atsuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women and princesses in Japan, with meanings that vary depending on the kanji used.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Atsuko (あつこ in hiragana)
this entity surface form:
Atsuko (アツコ in katakana)