Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Ryuichi Sakamoto was a pioneering Japanese composer, musician, and producer known for his influential electronic and film scores, including acclaimed work on movies such as "The Last Emperor" and "The Revenant."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ryuichi Sakamoto canonical | 13 |
| Ryuichi | 1 |
| 坂本龍一 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2657959 — 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: Ryuichi Sakamoto Context triple: [The Revenant, musicBy, Ryuichi Sakamoto]
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A.
Masayoshi Ōhira
Masayoshi Ōhira was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980.
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B.
Iwao Matsuda
Iwao Matsuda was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the Pacific campaigns.
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C.
Isamu Yokoyama
Isamu Yokoyama was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a prominent leadership role in major early Second Sino-Japanese War operations.
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D.
Kitaro
Kitaro is a pioneering Japanese new-age composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his atmospheric, synthesizer-based soundscapes and influential albums like the "Silk Road" series.
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E.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
- 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: Ryuichi Sakamoto Target entity description: Ryuichi Sakamoto was a pioneering Japanese composer, musician, and producer known for his influential electronic and film scores, including acclaimed work on movies such as "The Last Emperor" and "The Revenant."
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A.
Masayoshi Ōhira
Masayoshi Ōhira was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980.
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B.
Iwao Matsuda
Iwao Matsuda was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the Pacific campaigns.
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C.
Isamu Yokoyama
Isamu Yokoyama was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a prominent leadership role in major early Second Sino-Japanese War operations.
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D.
Kitaro
Kitaro is a pioneering Japanese new-age composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his atmospheric, synthesizer-based soundscapes and influential albums like the "Silk Road" series.
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E.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| actedIn | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Score
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BAFTA Award for Best Original Music ⓘ
surface form:
BAFTA Award for Best Original Film Music
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score ⓘ Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1952-01-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Japan
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Tokyo ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| cofounderOf | Yellow Magic Orchestra ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alva Noto
ⓘ
Brian Wilson ⓘ Alva Noto ⓘ
surface form:
Carsten Nicolai
David Sylvian ⓘ Fennesz ⓘ Iggy Pop ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2023-03-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Tokyo University of the Arts ⓘ |
| familyName | Sakamoto ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
electronic music
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film score composition ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient music
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classical music ⓘ electronic music ⓘ experimental music ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName |
Ryuichi Sakamoto
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ryuichi
|
| instrument |
keyboards
ⓘ
piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative film scores
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pioneering electronic music ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yellow Magic Orchestra ⓘ |
| movement |
Japanese electronic music
ⓘ
technopop ⓘ |
| name | Ryuichi Sakamoto self-link ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Ryuichi Sakamoto
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
坂本龍一
|
| notableWork |
album 1996
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album B-2 Unit ⓘ album BTTB ⓘ album Beauty ⓘ album Coda ⓘ album Neo Geo ⓘ album Playing the Piano ⓘ album Thousand Knives ⓘ album async ⓘ soundtrack for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ⓘ soundtrack for The Last Emperor ⓘ soundtrack for The Revenant ⓘ soundtrack for The Sheltering Sky ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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composer ⓘ musician ⓘ pianist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
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: Ryuichi Sakamoto Description of subject: Ryuichi Sakamoto was a pioneering Japanese composer, musician, and producer known for his influential electronic and film scores, including acclaimed work on movies such as "The Last Emperor" and "The Revenant."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film)
this entity surface form:
坂本龍一
this entity surface form:
Ryuichi