Kunio Maekawa
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Kunio Maekawa was a prominent Japanese modernist architect, known for pioneering postwar architectural design in Japan and for his influential public and cultural buildings.
All labels observed (1)
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| Kunio Maekawa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11407363 — 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: Kunio Maekawa Context triple: [National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, architect, Kunio Maekawa]
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A.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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B.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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C.
Kunio Nakagawa
Kunio Nakagawa was an Imperial Japanese Army officer best known for leading the island’s fierce and protracted defense during the World War II Battle of Peleliu.
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D.
Hideo Satō
Hideo Satō is a Japanese individual known primarily as a notable bearer of the surname Satō.
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E.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
- 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: Kunio Maekawa Target entity description: Kunio Maekawa was a prominent Japanese modernist architect, known for pioneering postwar architectural design in Japan and for his influential public and cultural buildings.
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A.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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B.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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C.
Kunio Nakagawa
Kunio Nakagawa was an Imperial Japanese Army officer best known for leading the island’s fierce and protracted defense during the World War II Battle of Peleliu.
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D.
Hideo Satō
Hideo Satō is a Japanese individual known primarily as a notable bearer of the surname Satō.
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E.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.