Hideki Matsuyama
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Hideki Matsuyama is a Japanese professional golfer and major champion best known for becoming the first male golfer from Japan to win the Masters Tournament.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hideki Matsuyama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6106478 — 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: Hideki Matsuyama Context triple: [Japan Golf Tour, notableAlumni, Hideki Matsuyama]
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A.
Kenichi Matsuyama
Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor best known internationally for his role as L in the "Death Note" film series and for his diverse performances in both mainstream and arthouse cinema.
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B.
Kazuyoshi Funaki
Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
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C.
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Tsuyoshi Ihara is a Japanese actor known internationally for his role in Clint Eastwood’s World War II film "Letters from Iwo Jima."
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D.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
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E.
Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro is a virtuoso American ukulele player and composer known for his innovative, genre-blending style and viral interpretations of popular songs.
- 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: Hideki Matsuyama Target entity description: Hideki Matsuyama is a Japanese professional golfer and major champion best known for becoming the first male golfer from Japan to win the Masters Tournament.
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A.
Kenichi Matsuyama
Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor best known internationally for his role as L in the "Death Note" film series and for his diverse performances in both mainstream and arthouse cinema.
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B.
Kazuyoshi Funaki
Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
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C.
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Tsuyoshi Ihara is a Japanese actor known internationally for his role in Clint Eastwood’s World War II film "Letters from Iwo Jima."
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D.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
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E.
Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro is a virtuoso American ukulele player and composer known for his innovative, genre-blending style and viral interpretations of popular songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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male golfer ⓘ professional golfer ⓘ |
| amateurAchievement |
low amateur at the 2011 Masters Tournament
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winner of the 2010 Asian Amateur Championship ⓘ winner of the 2011 Asian Amateur Championship ⓘ |
| bestMastersFinish | 1st place (2021) ⓘ |
| bestOpenChampionshipFinish | T6 (2013) ⓘ |
| bestPGAChampionshipFinish | T4 (2016) ⓘ |
| bestUSOpenFinish | T2 (2017) ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Tohoku Fukushi University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competedInEvent |
2013 Presidents Cup
NERFINISHED
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2015 Presidents Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2017 Presidents Cup ⓘ 2019 Presidents Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2022 Presidents Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1992-02-25 ⓘ |
| era | 21st-century golfer ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCaddie | Shota Hayafuji (notably at 2021 Masters) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWonOnTour |
Japan Golf Tour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PGA Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.80 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
consistent ball-striking
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strong iron play ⓘ |
| majorChampionshipsWon | 1 ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first Japanese male golfer to win the Masters Tournament ⓘ |
| notableMoment | bowing caddie on 18th green after 2021 Masters win ⓘ |
| olympicParticipation |
golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsOnTour |
Japan Golf Tour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PGA Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsRightHanded | true ⓘ |
| professionalWinCountJapanGolfTour | multiple Japan Golf Tour wins ⓘ |
| professionalWinCountPgaTour | multiple PGA Tour wins ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Japan ⓘ |
| sport | golf ⓘ |
| teamCompetition | International Team in Presidents Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 2013 ⓘ |
| weight | approximately 90 kg ⓘ |
| wonTournament | 2021 Masters Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldRankingBestPosition | world top 5 ⓘ |
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: Hideki Matsuyama Description of subject: Hideki Matsuyama is a Japanese professional golfer and major champion best known for becoming the first male golfer from Japan to win the Masters Tournament.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.