Hidesaburō Ueno
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Hidesaburō Ueno was a Japanese agricultural scientist and professor at the University of Tokyo, best known as the owner of the famously loyal dog Hachikō.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hidesaburo Ueno | 2 |
| Hidesaburō Ueno canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5591605 — 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: Hidesaburō Ueno Context triple: [Hachiko, owner, Hidesaburō Ueno]
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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.
Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
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C.
Satō Norikiyo
Satō Norikiyo, better known by his monastic name Saigyō, was a prominent 12th-century Japanese poet and Buddhist monk celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature and impermanence.
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D.
Wakatsuki Reijirō
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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E.
Ishizuka Eizō
Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
- 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: Hidesaburō Ueno Target entity description: Hidesaburō Ueno was a Japanese agricultural scientist and professor at the University of Tokyo, best known as the owner of the famously loyal dog Hachikō.
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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.
Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
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C.
Satō Norikiyo
Satō Norikiyo, better known by his monastic name Saigyō, was a prominent 12th-century Japanese poet and Buddhist monk celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature and impermanence.
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D.
Wakatsuki Reijirō
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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E.
Ishizuka Eizō
Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural scientist
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human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
agriculture
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civil engineering ⓘ |
| affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| almaMater | Tokyo Imperial University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Aoyama Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral hemorrhage ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
joint grave with Hachikō at Aoyama Cemetery
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statue with Hachikō at the University of Tokyo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1871-01-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1925-05-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Tokyo Imperial University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Meiji era
ⓘ
surface form:
Meiji period
Taishō period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ueno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
agricultural engineering
ⓘ
drainage ⓘ irrigation ⓘ land improvement ⓘ |
| givenName | Hidesaburō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | public awareness of animal loyalty through the story of Hachikō ⓘ |
| hasPet | Hachikō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | development of modern Japanese agricultural engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the owner of the dog Hachikō
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research in agricultural engineering ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Hidesaburō Ueno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 上野 英三郎 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Kiyoshi Shiga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of irrigation and drainage systems in Japan ⓘ |
| occupation |
agricultural scientist
ⓘ
professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hisai, Mie Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor at Tokyo Imperial University ⓘ |
| residence | Tokyo ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Yae Ueno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hidesaburō Ueno Description of subject: Hidesaburō Ueno was a Japanese agricultural scientist and professor at the University of Tokyo, best known as the owner of the famously loyal dog Hachikō.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hidesaburo Ueno
this entity surface form:
Hidesaburo Ueno