Toshirō Mifune
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Toshirō Mifune was a legendary Japanese actor best known for his iconic collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa in classic samurai and period films such as "Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toshiro Mifune | 2 |
| Toshirō Mifune canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042757 — 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: Toshirō Mifune Context triple: [Winter Kills, castMember, Toshirō Mifune]
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A.
Kōji Yakusho
Kōji Yakusho is an acclaimed Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in both domestic cinema and international films such as "Shall We Dance?" and "13 Assassins."
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B.
Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa was a pioneering Japanese-born actor and early Hollywood star, renowned for his charismatic screen presence and one of the first Asian actors to achieve leading-man status in American and European cinema.
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C.
Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe is a renowned Japanese actor known internationally for his powerful performances in films such as "The Last Samurai," "Inception," and "Letters from Iwo Jima."
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D.
Pat Morita
Pat Morita was a Japanese-American actor and comedian best known for his role as Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" film series.
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E.
黒川紀章
黒川紀章は、日本のメタボリズム運動を代表する建築家であり、国立新美術館や中銀カプセルタワービルなどで知られる。
- 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: Toshirō Mifune Target entity description: Toshirō Mifune was a legendary Japanese actor best known for his iconic collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa in classic samurai and period films such as "Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo."
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A.
Kōji Yakusho
Kōji Yakusho is an acclaimed Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in both domestic cinema and international films such as "Shall We Dance?" and "13 Assassins."
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B.
Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa was a pioneering Japanese-born actor and early Hollywood star, renowned for his charismatic screen presence and one of the first Asian actors to achieve leading-man status in American and European cinema.
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C.
Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe is a renowned Japanese actor known internationally for his powerful performances in films such as "The Last Samurai," "Inception," and "Letters from Iwo Jima."
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D.
Pat Morita
Pat Morita was a Japanese-American actor and comedian best known for his role as Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" film series.
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E.
黒川紀章
黒川紀章は、日本のメタボリズム運動を代表する建築家であり、国立新美術館や中銀カプセルタワービルなどで知られる。
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Medal with Purple Ribbon
NERFINISHED
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Order of the Sacred Treasure NERFINISHED ⓘ Volpi Cup for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | multiple organ failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-04-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-12-24 ⓘ |
| employer | Toho Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mifune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
jidaigeki
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samurai film ⓘ |
| givenName | Toshirō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryService | Imperial Japanese Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Toshirō Mifune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 三船敏郎 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
1941
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Drunken Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ Hell in the Pacific NERFINISHED ⓘ High and Low NERFINISHED ⓘ I Live in Fear NERFINISHED ⓘ Rashomon NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Beard NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ Samurai Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanjuro NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Samurai NERFINISHED ⓘ Shogun NERFINISHED ⓘ Stray Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ Sword of Doom NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bad Sleep Well NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hidden Fortress NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life of Oharu NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lower Depths NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rickshaw Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Samurai Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ Throne of Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ Yojimbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Qingdao
NERFINISHED
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Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ Shandong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Japan
NERFINISHED
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Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sachiko Yoshimine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Akira Kurosawa
NERFINISHED
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Masaki Kobayashi NERFINISHED ⓘ Takashi Shimura NERFINISHED ⓘ Tatsuya Nakadai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1947–1995 ⓘ |
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: Toshirō Mifune Description of subject: Toshirō Mifune was a legendary Japanese actor best known for his iconic collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa in classic samurai and period films such as "Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Toshiro Mifune
this entity surface form:
Toshiro Mifune