Sone Arasuke
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Sone Arasuke was a Japanese statesman and diplomat who played a key role in Japan’s imperial expansion in East Asia during the late Meiji period.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sone Arasuke canonical | 2 |
| Arasuke | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2832004 — 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: Sone Arasuke Context triple: [Resident-General of Korea, officeHolder, Sone Arasuke]
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A.
Kenjirō
Kenjirō is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by multiple notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and entertainment.
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B.
Nishi Amane
Nishi Amane was a pioneering Meiji-era Japanese philosopher and statesman who helped introduce Western philosophy and legal thought to Japan.
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C.
Shintaro
Shintaro is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in sports, entertainment, and politics.
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D.
Masayuki
Masayuki is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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E.
Hatsuzuki
Hatsuzuki was an Imperial Japanese Navy Akizuki-class destroyer that saw action in World War II before being sunk during the Battle off Cape Engaño in 1944.
- 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: Sone Arasuke Target entity description: Sone Arasuke was a Japanese statesman and diplomat who played a key role in Japan’s imperial expansion in East Asia during the late Meiji period.
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A.
Kenjirō
Kenjirō is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by multiple notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and entertainment.
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B.
Nishi Amane
Nishi Amane was a pioneering Meiji-era Japanese philosopher and statesman who helped introduce Western philosophy and legal thought to Japan.
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C.
Shintaro
Shintaro is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in sports, entertainment, and politics.
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D.
Masayuki
Masayuki is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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E.
Hatsuzuki
Hatsuzuki was an Imperial Japanese Navy Akizuki-class destroyer that saw action in World War II before being sunk during the Battle off Cape Engaño in 1944.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese politician
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| era |
Meiji era
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surface form:
Meiji period
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| familyName | Sone ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sone Arasuke
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Arasuke
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| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
diplomatic service for the Empire of Japan
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role in Japan’s imperial expansion in East Asia ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Japanese imperial expansion in East Asia
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late Meiji period politics ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Imperial Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| positionHeld |
Cabinet minister of the Empire of Japan
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Governor-General of Korea ⓘ Japanese ambassador to France ⓘ Japanese ambassador to Russia ⓘ Member of the House of Peers ⓘ Resident-General of Korea ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
France
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Korea ⓘ Russia ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ |
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: Sone Arasuke Description of subject: Sone Arasuke was a Japanese statesman and diplomat who played a key role in Japan’s imperial expansion in East Asia during the late Meiji period.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Arasuke