Naoki Tanaka
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Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Naoki Tanaka canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T895328 — 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: Naoki Tanaka Context triple: [Kakuei Tanaka, child, Naoki Tanaka]
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A.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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B.
Sakai Takashi
Sakai Takashi was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces during the early Pacific War, including the invasion of Hong Kong.
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C.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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D.
Nobutaka Machimura
Nobutaka Machimura was a prominent Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician who held key cabinet posts, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chief Cabinet Secretary, and served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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E.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
- 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: Naoki Tanaka Target entity description: Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
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A.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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B.
Sakai Takashi
Sakai Takashi was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces during the early Pacific War, including the invasion of Hong Kong.
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C.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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D.
Nobutaka Machimura
Nobutaka Machimura was a prominent Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician who held key cabinet posts, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chief Cabinet Secretary, and served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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E.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese politician
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Tanaka ⓘ |
| father | Kakuei Tanaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Naoki Hoshino
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surface form:
Naoki
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| memberOfPoliticalFamily | Tanaka political family ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Kakuei Tanaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
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membership in influential Tanaka political family ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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politician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Naoki Tanaka Description of subject: Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.