Yokozuna
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Yokozuna was a dominant Samoan-American professional wrestler best known for his time in WWE during the early 1990s, where he portrayed a massive Japanese sumo wrestler and became a multi-time world champion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yokozuna canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9995827 — 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: Yokozuna Context triple: [Roman Reigns, relative, Yokozuna]
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A.
Tatenokai
Tatenokai was a private nationalist militia formed in 1960s Japan by author Yukio Mishima, known for its right-wing ideology and dramatic role in Mishima’s attempted coup and ritual suicide.
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B.
Yoshinobu
Yoshinobu is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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C.
Ryūō
Ryūō is a town in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known for its location near Lake Biwa and its blend of rural landscapes with growing commercial development.
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D.
Tajiri
Tajiri is a coastal town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its proximity to Kansai International Airport and its role as part of the airport’s surrounding community.
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E.
Kyōgoku
Kyōgoku is a small town in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its natural springs and scenic views of Mount Yotei.
- 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: Yokozuna Target entity description: Yokozuna was a dominant Samoan-American professional wrestler best known for his time in WWE during the early 1990s, where he portrayed a massive Japanese sumo wrestler and became a multi-time world champion.
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A.
Tatenokai
Tatenokai was a private nationalist militia formed in 1960s Japan by author Yukio Mishima, known for its right-wing ideology and dramatic role in Mishima’s attempted coup and ritual suicide.
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B.
Yoshinobu
Yoshinobu is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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C.
Ryūō
Ryūō is a town in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, known for its location near Lake Biwa and its blend of rural landscapes with growing commercial development.
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D.
Tajiri
Tajiri is a coastal town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known for its proximity to Kansai International Airport and its role as part of the airport’s surrounding community.
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E.
Kyōgoku
Kyōgoku is a small town in Hokkaido, Japan, known for its natural springs and scenic views of Mount Yotei.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional wrestler ⓘ |
| billedAs | Japanese sumo wrestler ⓘ |
| billedFrom |
Polynesia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Land of the Rising Sun ⓘ |
| birthName | Rodney Agatupu Anoaʻi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pulmonary edema ⓘ |
| championshipHeld |
AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ WWF Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ WWF Tag Team Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-10-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-10-23 ⓘ |
| employer | World Wrestling Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Samoan American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Anoaʻi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudedWith |
Bret Hart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hulk Hogan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Luger NERFINISHED ⓘ The Undertaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finishingMove |
Banzai Drop
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rump Shaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | professional wrestling ⓘ |
| givenName | Rodney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | WWE Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 4 in ⓘ |
| mainEvented |
WrestleMania IX
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WrestleMania X NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manager |
Jim Cornette
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mr. Fuji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Anoaʻi wrestling family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlias | The Mighty Yokozuna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Liverpool, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotion |
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
World Wrestling Council NERFINISHED ⓘ World Wrestling Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Afa Anoaʻi
NERFINISHED
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Rikishi ⓘ Roman Reigns NERFINISHED ⓘ Sika Anoaʻi NERFINISHED ⓘ The Usos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ringName |
Great Kokina
NERFINISHED
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Kokina Maximus NERFINISHED ⓘ Yokozuna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weight | over 500 lb ⓘ |
| wonEvent | 1993 Royal Rumble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrestlingDebut | 1984 ⓘ |
| wrestlingRetirement | 2000 ⓘ |
| wrestlingStyle | super heavyweight ⓘ |
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: Yokozuna Description of subject: Yokozuna was a dominant Samoan-American professional wrestler best known for his time in WWE during the early 1990s, where he portrayed a massive Japanese sumo wrestler and became a multi-time world champion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.