Imamura Shohei
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Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shohei Imamura | 3 |
| Imamura Shohei canonical | 2 |
| Imamura Shōhei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1825639 — 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: Imamura Shohei Context triple: [VGIK, notableAlumnus, Imamura Shohei]
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A.
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter renowned for his influential samurai epics and innovative cinematic techniques that shaped world cinema.
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B.
Kenzaburo Hara
Kenzaburo Hara was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played a leading role in Japan’s World War II operations in Southeast Asia, particularly during the Dutch East Indies campaign.
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C.
Takeuchi Shinichiro
Takeuchi Shinichiro was a Japanese architect best known for his role in designing Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
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D.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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E.
Gyo Obata
Gyo Obata was a prominent American architect and co-founder of the firm HOK, known for designing major cultural, civic, and religious landmarks around the world.
- 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: Imamura Shohei Target entity description: Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
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A.
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter renowned for his influential samurai epics and innovative cinematic techniques that shaped world cinema.
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B.
Kenzaburo Hara
Kenzaburo Hara was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played a leading role in Japan’s World War II operations in Southeast Asia, particularly during the Dutch East Indies campaign.
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C.
Takeuchi Shinichiro
Takeuchi Shinichiro was a Japanese architect best known for his role in designing Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
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D.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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E.
Gyo Obata
Gyo Obata was a prominent American architect and co-founder of the firm HOK, known for designing major cultural, civic, and religious landmarks around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Imamura Shohei Description of subject: Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Imamura Shōhei
this entity surface form:
Shohei Imamura
this entity surface form:
Shohei Imamura
this entity surface form:
Shohei Imamura