Miyoshi Umeki
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Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese-American actress and singer best known as the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for her role in the film "Sayonara."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Miyoshi Umeki canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3174974 — 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: Miyoshi Umeki Context triple: [Flower Drum Song, originalLeadPerformer, Miyoshi Umeki]
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A.
Imamura Shohei
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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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.
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Yasujiro Tsutsumi was a powerful Japanese businessman and politician who built a vast corporate empire, including the Seibu Group, and became one of the wealthiest individuals in postwar Japan.
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D.
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.
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E.
Nobuko Abe
Nobuko Abe is a Japanese woman best known as the sister of former Prime Minister Taro Aso.
- 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: Miyoshi Umeki Target entity description: Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese-American actress and singer best known as the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for her role in the film "Sayonara."
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A.
Imamura Shohei
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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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.
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Yasujiro Tsutsumi was a powerful Japanese businessman and politician who built a vast corporate empire, including the Seibu Group, and became one of the wealthiest individuals in postwar Japan.
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D.
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.
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E.
Nobuko Abe
Nobuko Abe is a Japanese woman best known as the sister of former Prime Minister Taro Aso.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Miyoshi Umeki Description of subject: Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese-American actress and singer best known as the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for her role in the film "Sayonara."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.