Masataka Kōno (director)
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Masataka Kōno is a Japanese film director known for his work in contemporary Japanese cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Masataka Kōno (director) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11733232 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Masataka Kōno (director) Context triple: [Masataka, hasNotableBearer, Masataka Kōno (director)]
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A.
Keiji Shibazaki
Keiji Shibazaki was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the island’s defenses and was killed during the World War II Battle of Tarawa.
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B.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Takeuchi Shinichiro
Takeuchi Shinichiro was a Japanese architect best known for his role in designing Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
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D.
Gedde Watanabe
Gedde Watanabe is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Sixteen Candles" and for voicing Ling in Disney's "Mulan."
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E.
Eiichi Kono
Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.
- 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: Masataka Kōno (director) Target entity description: Masataka Kōno is a Japanese film director known for his work in contemporary Japanese cinema.
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A.
Keiji Shibazaki
Keiji Shibazaki was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the island’s defenses and was killed during the World War II Battle of Tarawa.
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B.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Takeuchi Shinichiro
Takeuchi Shinichiro was a Japanese architect best known for his role in designing Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
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D.
Gedde Watanabe
Gedde Watanabe is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Sixteen Candles" and for voicing Ling in Disney's "Mulan."
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E.
Eiichi Kono
Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese film director
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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contemporary Japanese cinema ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| occupation | film director ⓘ |
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: Masataka Kōno (director) Description of subject: Masataka Kōno is a Japanese film director known for his work in contemporary Japanese cinema.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.