Shoichi Sakata
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Shoichi Sakata was a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his influential Sakata model of hadrons and his foundational contributions to particle physics in Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shoichi Sakata canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T677870 — 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: Shoichi Sakata Context triple: [Yoshio Nishina, supervisedStudent, Shoichi Sakata]
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A.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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B.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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C.
Saburō Kurusu
Saburō Kurusu was a Japanese diplomat best known for his role in U.S.-Japan negotiations immediately before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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D.
Shojiro Iida
Shojiro Iida was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led major operations in Southeast Asia during World War II, particularly in the invasion of Burma.
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E.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
- 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: Shoichi Sakata Target entity description: Shoichi Sakata was a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his influential Sakata model of hadrons and his foundational contributions to particle physics in Japan.
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A.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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B.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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C.
Saburō Kurusu
Saburō Kurusu was a Japanese diplomat best known for his role in U.S.-Japan negotiations immediately before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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D.
Shojiro Iida
Shojiro Iida was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led major operations in Southeast Asia during World War II, particularly in the invasion of Burma.
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E.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese scientist
ⓘ
human ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Yoshio Nishina ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | physics ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | postwar Japanese physics community ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Japan Academy Prize
ⓘ
Order of Culture ⓘ
surface form:
Order of Culture (Japan)
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| contributedTo |
development of lepton–baryon symmetry concepts
ⓘ
early composite models of elementary particles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Kyoto University
ⓘ
surface form:
Kyoto Imperial University
Tohoku University ⓘ |
| employer | Nagoya University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Sakata ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
nuclear physics
ⓘ
particle physics ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | scientific research ⓘ |
| givenName | Shoichi ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Professor ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese school of particle physics
ⓘ
development of quark model ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Hideki Yukawa
ⓘ
Yoshio Nishina ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Sakata model
ⓘ
composite model of hadrons ⓘ pioneering work in Japanese particle physics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Physical Society of Japan ⓘ |
| movement |
Japanese school of particle physics
ⓘ
surface form:
Nagoya school of particle physics
|
| name | Shoichi Sakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Sakata model of hadrons ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Maki Ziro
ⓘ
Masami Nakagawa ⓘ Susumu Okubo ⓘ Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ |
| notableWork |
papers on the Sakata model
ⓘ
research on hadron structure ⓘ |
| occupation |
physicist
ⓘ
university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Japan ⓘ |
| workLocation | Nagoya University ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Shoichi Sakata Description of subject: Shoichi Sakata was a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his influential Sakata model of hadrons and his foundational contributions to particle physics in Japan.
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