Kimiya Yui
E431341
Kimiya Yui is a Japanese astronaut, former Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter pilot, and JAXA spacefarer who has flown to the International Space Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kimiya Yui canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4214858 — 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: Kimiya Yui Context triple: [JAXA Astronaut Group, notableMember, Kimiya Yui]
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A.
Reika Kirishima
Reika Kirishima is a Japanese actress known for her role in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel "Norwegian Wood" (2010).
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B.
Yuriko
Yuriko is the given name of Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, known for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Takako
Takako is a Japanese feminine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
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D.
Nijō Motoko
Nijō Motoko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Teimei, consort of Emperor Taishō.
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E.
Esaki Reona
Esaki Reona, better known internationally as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
- 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: Kimiya Yui Target entity description: Kimiya Yui is a Japanese astronaut, former Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter pilot, and JAXA spacefarer who has flown to the International Space Station.
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A.
Reika Kirishima
Reika Kirishima is a Japanese actress known for her role in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel "Norwegian Wood" (2010).
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B.
Yuriko
Yuriko is the given name of Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, known for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Takako
Takako is a Japanese feminine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
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D.
Nijō Motoko
Nijō Motoko was a Japanese noblewoman of the Nijō family and the mother of Empress Teimei, consort of Emperor Taishō.
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E.
Esaki Reona
Esaki Reona, better known internationally as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut
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astronaut ⓘ fighter pilot ⓘ human ⓘ |
| affiliation | Japan Air Self-Defense Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Kimiya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationIn | aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| hasExperience |
conducting scientific experiments on the International Space Station
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operating Soyuz spacecraft ⓘ spacewalk training ⓘ test flying military aircraft ⓘ |
| isAstronautOf | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Japan Air Self-Defense Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission |
Expedition 44
NERFINISHED
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Expedition 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Kimiya Yui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 油井 亀美也 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a JAXA astronaut
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flying to the International Space Station ⓘ serving as a Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter pilot ⓘ |
| notableWork | long-duration mission on the International Space Station ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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fighter pilot ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn | International Space Station expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Lieutenant Colonel ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | Japan Air Self-Defense Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceflight | Soyuz TMA-17M NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasOnBoard | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tsukuba Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kimiya Yui Description of subject: Kimiya Yui is a Japanese astronaut, former Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter pilot, and JAXA spacefarer who has flown to the International Space Station.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.