Koki Hirota

E180174

Japanese diplomat Japanese politician human prime minister of Japan

Koki Hirota was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister in the 1930s and was later executed for war crimes after World War II.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Koki Hirota canonical	4
Kōki Hirota	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1417152 — 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: Koki Hirota
Context triple: [International Military Tribunal for the Far East, notableDefendant, Koki Hirota]

A. Fumimaro Konoe
Fumimaro Konoe was a Japanese prince and politician who served multiple times as prime minister and played a central role in Japan’s political and military escalation leading up to and during the early years of World War II.
B. Shigeru Yoshida
Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and statesman who led Japan’s post–World War II recovery and helped shape its pacifist constitution and pro-Western foreign policy.
C. Nobusuke Kishi
Nobusuke Kishi was a prominent Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister from 1957 to 1960 and played a key role in postwar Japan’s political and economic direction.
D. Yamagata Aritomo
Yamagata Aritomo was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese military leader and statesman who helped modernize Japan’s army and twice served as Prime Minister.
E. Koiso Kuniaki
Koiso Kuniaki was a Japanese general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and played a key role in Japan’s wartime administration.
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: Koki Hirota
Target entity description: Koki Hirota was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister in the 1930s and was later executed for war crimes after World War II.

A. Fumimaro Konoe
Fumimaro Konoe was a Japanese prince and politician who served multiple times as prime minister and played a central role in Japan’s political and military escalation leading up to and during the early years of World War II.
B. Shigeru Yoshida
Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and statesman who led Japan’s post–World War II recovery and helped shape its pacifist constitution and pro-Western foreign policy.
C. Nobusuke Kishi
Nobusuke Kishi was a prominent Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister from 1957 to 1960 and played a key role in postwar Japan’s political and economic direction.
D. Yamagata Aritomo
Yamagata Aritomo was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese military leader and statesman who helped modernize Japan’s army and twice served as Prime Minister.
E. Koiso Kuniaki
Koiso Kuniaki was a Japanese general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and played a key role in Japan’s wartime administration.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese diplomat ⓘ Japanese politician ⓘ human ⓘ prime minister of Japan ⓘ
ambassadorTo	Soviet Union ⓘ
birthDate	1878-02-14 ⓘ
birthName	Hirota Kōki ⓘ surface form: Hirota Koki
burialPlace	Tokyo ⓘ surface form: Tokyo, Japan
causeOfDeath	execution by hanging ⓘ
convictedBy	International Military Tribunal for the Far East ⓘ
convictedOf	crimes against peace ⓘ war crimes ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Japan ⓘ
deathDate	1948-12-23 ⓘ
educatedIn	law ⓘ
education	Tokyo Imperial University NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	Showa era ⓘ surface form: Shōwa period
executedBy	Allied occupation of Japan ⓘ surface form: Allied occupation authorities in Japan
gender	male ⓘ
knownFor	being convicted and executed as a Class A war criminal after World War II ⓘ serving as Foreign Minister during Japan’s expansion in East Asia ⓘ serving as Prime Minister of Japan in the mid-1930s ⓘ
languageSpoken	Japanese ⓘ
monarchDuringTermAsPrimeMinister	Emperor Hirohito ⓘ
name	Koki Hirota self-link ⓘ
nationality	Japanese ⓘ
nativeName	広田弘毅 ⓘ
negotiated	restoration of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union in the 1920s ⓘ
notableWork	Hirota–Laval Pact ⓘ
occupation	diplomat ⓘ politician ⓘ
participatedIn	International Military Tribunal for the Far East ⓘ surface form: International Military Tribunal for the Far East (as defendant)
placeOfBirth	Fukuoka ⓘ surface form: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
placeOfDeath	Sugamo Prison ⓘ surface form: Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan
politicalAlignment	militarist government of prewar Japan ⓘ
positionHeld	Member of the House of Peers of Japan ⓘ Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ⓘ Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ
predecessorAsForeignMinister	Yoshiyuki Tsurumi NERFINISHED ⓘ
predecessorAsPrimeMinister	Keisuke Okada NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ
successorAsForeignMinister	Hachiro Arita NERFINISHED ⓘ
successorAsPrimeMinister	Senjuro Hayashi NERFINISHED ⓘ
termEndAsForeignMinister	1936-03-09 ⓘ
termEndAsPrimeMinister	1937-02-02 ⓘ
termStartAsForeignMinister	1933-09-09 ⓘ
termStartAsPrimeMinister	1936-03-09 ⓘ
workedFor	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

International Military Tribunal for the Far East → notableDefendant → Koki Hirota ⓘ

Sugamo Prison → notablePrisoner → Koki Hirota ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kōki Hirota

Tokyo Trial → majorDefendant → Koki Hirota ⓘ

Tokyo Trial → sentencedToDeath → Koki Hirota ⓘ

Koki Hirota → name → Koki Hirota self-link ⓘ

Prime Minister Keisuke Okada → successor → Koki Hirota ⓘ

subject surface form: Keisuke Okada