Wakatsuki Reijirō
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Wakatsuki Reijirō was a Japanese politician who twice served as Prime Minister during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods and was associated with liberal, parliamentary government.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wakatsuki Reijirō canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5569325 — 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: Wakatsuki Reijirō Context triple: [Kenseikai, notableLeader, Wakatsuki Reijirō]
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A.
Ozaki Yukio
Ozaki Yukio was a prominent Japanese liberal politician and statesman, often called the "father of the Japanese Constitution," known for championing democracy and civil rights in the Meiji and Taishō eras.
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B.
Gotō Shinpei
Gotō Shinpei was a prominent Japanese statesman and colonial administrator known for modernizing Taiwan’s infrastructure and governance during early Japanese rule and later serving in top government posts in Japan.
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C.
Ishizuka Eizō
Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Hyakutake Seikichi
Hyakutake Seikichi was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who played a significant role during World War II.
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E.
Beppu Shinsuke
Beppu Shinsuke was a samurai and military leader who played a prominent role as one of the key figures in Saigō Takamori’s forces during the Satsuma Rebellion against the Meiji government in 1877.
- 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: Wakatsuki Reijirō Target entity description: Wakatsuki Reijirō was a Japanese politician who twice served as Prime Minister during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods and was associated with liberal, parliamentary government.
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A.
Ozaki Yukio
Ozaki Yukio was a prominent Japanese liberal politician and statesman, often called the "father of the Japanese Constitution," known for championing democracy and civil rights in the Meiji and Taishō eras.
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B.
Gotō Shinpei
Gotō Shinpei was a prominent Japanese statesman and colonial administrator known for modernizing Taiwan’s infrastructure and governance during early Japanese rule and later serving in top government posts in Japan.
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C.
Ishizuka Eizō
Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Hyakutake Seikichi
Hyakutake Seikichi was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who played a significant role during World War II.
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E.
Beppu Shinsuke
Beppu Shinsuke was a samurai and military leader who played a prominent role as one of the key figures in Saigō Takamori’s forces during the Satsuma Rebellion against the Meiji government in 1877.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese politician
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human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Somei Cemetery, Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1866-03-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1949-11-20 ⓘ |
| education | Tokyo Imperial University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Meiji era
ⓘ
surface form:
Meiji period
Shōwa period NERFINISHED ⓘ Taishō period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Wakatsuki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Reijirō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Count ⓘ |
| ideology | parliamentary government ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Kenseikai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rikken Dōshikai NERFINISHED ⓘ Rikken Minseitō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Taishō democracy ⓘ |
| name | Wakatsuki Reijirō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| nobilityStatus | kazoku ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
in office at the time of the Manchurian Incident
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resigned following the Shōwa financial crisis ⓘ served as Prime Minister during the Shōwa financial crisis ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ |
| orderInOffice |
30th Prime Minister of Japan
ⓘ
31st Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tottori Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policyFocus |
fiscal policy and financial stabilization
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strengthening parliamentary cabinet government ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberal ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Home Minister of Japan
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Member of the House of Representatives of Japan ⓘ Minister of Finance of Japan ⓘ Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| primeMinisterTermEnd |
1927
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1931 ⓘ |
| primeMinisterTermStart |
1926
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1931 ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| servedAsPrimeMinisterDuring |
Taishō period
NERFINISHED
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early Shōwa period ⓘ |
| workedAt | Ministry of Finance of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Wakatsuki Reijirō Description of subject: Wakatsuki Reijirō was a Japanese politician who twice served as Prime Minister during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods and was associated with liberal, parliamentary government.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kenseikai