太郎
E179784
太郎 is a common Japanese male given name, traditionally used for the eldest son and written with kanji meaning "great" and "son."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 太郎 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1575962 — 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: 太郎 Context triple: [Taro, kanjiVariant, 太郎]
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A.
南 次郎
南 次郎（Jirō Minami）は、日中戦争期に朝鮮総督などを務めた日本の陸軍軍人・政治家です。
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B.
朝永振一郎
朝永振一郎 was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
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C.
山本
山本 is a common Japanese surname borne by many notable figures across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Shoichi Sakata
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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E.
畑 俊六
畑俊六 was a Japanese general who served as the last Army Minister of the Empire of Japan during World War II.
- 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: 太郎 Target entity description: 太郎 is a common Japanese male given name, traditionally used for the eldest son and written with kanji meaning "great" and "son."
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A.
南 次郎
南 次郎（Jirō Minami）は、日中戦争期に朝鮮総督などを務めた日本の陸軍軍人・政治家です。
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B.
朝永振一郎
朝永振一郎 was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
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C.
山本
山本 is a common Japanese surname borne by many notable figures across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Shoichi Sakata
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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E.
畑 俊六
畑俊六 was a Japanese general who served as the last Army Minister of the Empire of Japan during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name
ⓘ
Japanese masculine given name ⓘ anthroponym ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
eldest son
ⓘ
masculinity ⓘ traditional Japanese culture ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Japanese given names
ⓘ
Japanese masculine given names ⓘ Masculine given names ⓘ |
| componentKanji1 | 太 ⓘ |
| componentKanji2 | 郎 ⓘ |
| culturalUsage | Japan ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenNamePosition | first name in Western order ⓘ |
| hasPhoneticReading | たろう ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
三郎
ⓘ
南 次郎 ⓘ
surface form:
次郎
|
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | great son ⓘ |
| meaningOfKanji太 |
big
ⓘ
great ⓘ |
| meaningOfKanji郎 |
man
ⓘ
son ⓘ |
| nameCategory | traditional Japanese male name ⓘ |
| nameOrderContext | used as given name after family name in Japanese order ⓘ |
| nameStructure | two-kanji given name ⓘ |
| nameType | given name ⓘ |
| orthographicType | logographic name ⓘ |
| popularity | common in Japan ⓘ |
| possibleShortForm |
Tarō
ⓘ
surface form:
Tarou
|
| romanizationSystem | Hepburn ⓘ |
| romanizedForm |
Taro
ⓘ
Tarō ⓘ |
| script | kanji ⓘ |
| semanticField | family and birth order ⓘ |
| syllabarySpelling |
たろう
ⓘ
タロウ ⓘ |
| traditionalUsage | name for eldest son ⓘ |
| typicalKanjiSpelling | 太郎 ⓘ |
| usedFor | personal naming ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Japanese writing system ⓘ |
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: 太郎 Description of subject: 太郎 is a common Japanese male given name, traditionally used for the eldest son and written with kanji meaning "great" and "son."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.