Tokitarō
E388107
Tokitarō was the childhood given name of the renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tokitarō canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3782882 — 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: Tokitarō Context triple: [Katsushika Hokusai, givenName, Tokitarō]
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A.
Taitō
Taitō is a special ward in central Tokyo known for its historic districts, traditional temples, and major cultural attractions such as Ueno Park and Asakusa.
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B.
Tarō
Tarō is a common Japanese masculine given name, often written with kanji meaning "eldest son" and frequently used in traditional and modern Japanese culture.
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C.
Akio
Akio is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in business, arts, and entertainment.
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D.
Shuji
Shuji is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Shuji Nakamura.
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E.
Katsuya
Katsuya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
- 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: Tokitarō Target entity description: Tokitarō was the childhood given name of the renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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A.
Taitō
Taitō is a special ward in central Tokyo known for its historic districts, traditional temples, and major cultural attractions such as Ueno Park and Asakusa.
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B.
Tarō
Tarō is a common Japanese masculine given name, often written with kanji meaning "eldest son" and frequently used in traditional and modern Japanese culture.
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C.
Akio
Akio is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in business, arts, and entertainment.
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D.
Shuji
Shuji is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Shuji Nakamura.
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E.
Katsuya
Katsuya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
childhood name
ⓘ
personal name ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Katsushika Hokusai ⓘ |
| associatedPersonOccupation |
painter
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printmaker ⓘ ukiyo-e artist ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtForm | ukiyo-e ⓘ |
| bearer | Katsushika Hokusai ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| era | Edo period ⓘ |
| genderOfBearer | male ⓘ |
| givenNameOf | Katsushika Hokusai ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameCategory | Japanese masculine given name ⓘ |
| nameType | yōmyō (childhood name) ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the childhood name of Katsushika Hokusai ⓘ |
| replacedByAdultNameOf | Katsushika Hokusai ⓘ |
| usedDuringLifeStage | childhood ⓘ |
| usedInCulture | Japanese culture ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Japanese script ⓘ |
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: Tokitarō Description of subject: Tokitarō was the childhood given name of the renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.