Katsushika Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai was a pioneering Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker best known internationally for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Katsushika Hokusai canonical | 25 |
| Hokusai | 6 |
| Gakyōjin Hokusai | 1 |
| 葛飾北斎 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T694898 — 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: Katsushika Hokusai Context triple: [Edo period, notableArtist, Katsushika Hokusai]
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A.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
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C.
Anami Korechika
Anami Korechika was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who later served as Japan’s War Minister during the final stages of World War II.
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D.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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E.
Masayuki Kakefu
Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Katsushika Hokusai Target entity description: Katsushika Hokusai was a pioneering Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker best known internationally for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
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A.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
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C.
Anami Korechika
Anami Korechika was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who later served as Japan’s War Minister during the final stages of World War II.
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D.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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E.
Masayuki Kakefu
Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Katsushika Hokusai Description of subject: Katsushika Hokusai was a pioneering Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker best known internationally for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
葛飾北斎
this entity surface form:
Gakyōjin Hokusai
this entity surface form:
Hokusai
this entity surface form:
Hokusai
this entity surface form:
Hokusai
this entity surface form:
Hokusai
this entity surface form:
Hokusai
this entity surface form:
Hokusai