Sadako
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Japanese actress
Japanese diplomat
Japanese empress consort
Japanese feminine given name
Japanese peace activist
fictional character
Sadako is a feminine Japanese given name commonly associated with several notable historical and fictional figures.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sadako canonical | 2 |
| Sadako Sasaki | 2 |
| Sadako Pointer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7509214 — 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: Sadako Context triple: [Sadako Kujō, givenName, Sadako]
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A.
Yoshiko
Yoshiko is a feminine Japanese given name commonly used across various generations and often associated with traditional Japanese culture.
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B.
Sachiko
Sachiko is a Japanese feminine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations, often conveying meanings related to happiness or child.
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C.
Totsuko
Totsuko is the former abbreviated name of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, the Japanese company that later became Sony.
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D.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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E.
Toshiko Soma
Toshiko Soma was the Japanese wife of Indian revolutionary Rashbehari Bose, known for supporting his anti-colonial activities while he lived in Japan.
- 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: Sadako Target entity description: Sadako is a feminine Japanese given name commonly associated with several notable historical and fictional figures.
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A.
Yoshiko
Yoshiko is a feminine Japanese given name commonly used across various generations and often associated with traditional Japanese culture.
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B.
Sachiko
Sachiko is a Japanese feminine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations, often conveying meanings related to happiness or child.
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C.
Totsuko
Totsuko is the former abbreviated name of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, the Japanese company that later became Sony.
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D.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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E.
Toshiko Soma
Toshiko Soma was the Japanese wife of Indian revolutionary Rashbehari Bose, known for supporting his anti-colonial activities while he lived in Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese actress
ⓘ
Japanese diplomat ⓘ Japanese empress consort ⓘ Japanese feminine given name ⓘ Japanese peace activist ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ring (Ringu) franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Empress Teishi (Sadako Fujiwara)
NERFINISHED
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Sadako Katō NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Ogata NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Sasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Sawamura NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Yamamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canBeWrittenWithKanji |
佐妥子
NERFINISHED
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定子 NERFINISHED ⓘ 禎子 NERFINISHED ⓘ 貞子 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sadako
NERFINISHED
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Sadako NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameElement |
ko
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sada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Empress Teishi (Fujiwara no Sadako)
NERFINISHED
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Sadako Katō NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Ogata NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Sasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Sawamura NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadako Yamamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | inspiring the story of a thousand paper cranes ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfUse | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| suffixMeaning | "ko" means "child" in Japanese given names ⓘ |
| typicalUsage | given name for women ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Japanese kanji ⓘ |
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: Sadako Description of subject: Sadako is a feminine Japanese given name commonly associated with several notable historical and fictional figures.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sadako Pointer
this entity surface form:
Sadako Sasaki
this entity surface form:
Sadako Sasaki