Harold Sakata
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Harold Sakata was an American Olympic silver medalist weightlifter and professional wrestler who became widely known as the actor who played Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold Sakata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5045777 — 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: Harold Sakata Context triple: [Oddjob, portrayedBy, Harold Sakata]
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A.
Shōzō Sakurai
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
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B.
Taro Okamoto
Taro Okamoto was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist known for his bold abstract works and iconic public sculptures that helped shape postwar Japanese art.
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C.
Yoshinori Sakai
Yoshinori Sakai was a Japanese track athlete symbolically chosen to light the cauldron at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics because he was born in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped.
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D.
Rikichi Tsukada
Rikichi Tsukada was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led Japanese forces during World War II, including in the later stages of the Pacific War.
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E.
Hajime Sugiyama
Hajime Sugiyama was a senior Japanese Army general and Army Chief of Staff who played a central role in planning and directing Japan’s military expansion during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
- 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: Harold Sakata Target entity description: Harold Sakata was an American Olympic silver medalist weightlifter and professional wrestler who became widely known as the actor who played Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
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A.
Shōzō Sakurai
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
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B.
Taro Okamoto
Taro Okamoto was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist known for his bold abstract works and iconic public sculptures that helped shape postwar Japanese art.
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C.
Yoshinori Sakai
Yoshinori Sakai was a Japanese track athlete symbolically chosen to light the cauldron at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics because he was born in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped.
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D.
Rikichi Tsukada
Rikichi Tsukada was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led Japanese forces during World War II, including in the later stages of the Pacific War.
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E.
Hajime Sugiyama
Hajime Sugiyama was a senior Japanese Army general and Army Chief of Staff who played a central role in planning and directing Japan’s military expansion during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person of Japanese descent
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Olympic athlete ⓘ human ⓘ professional wrestler ⓘ weightlifter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tosh Togo
NERFINISHED
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Toshiyuki Sakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Goldfinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hawaii, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | natural-born citizen of the United States ⓘ |
| competedFor | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-07-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-07-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | spy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Oddjob in the film Goldfinger ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medalAt | 1948 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medalFor | weightlifting ⓘ |
| name | Harold Sakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Goldfinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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professional wrestler ⓘ weightlifter ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal | silver medal ⓘ |
| participantIn | 1948 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | James Bond film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Holualoa, Hawaii, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Oddjob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Hawaii, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | weightlifting ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Guy Hamilton
NERFINISHED
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Sean Connery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrestlingRingName | Tosh Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrestlingStyle | professional wrestling ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Harold Sakata Description of subject: Harold Sakata was an American Olympic silver medalist weightlifter and professional wrestler who became widely known as the actor who played Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.