Matsunaga
E1316428
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Matsunaga is a tubercular yakuza gangster whose tragic decline underpins the gritty postwar drama of Akira Kurosawa’s film "Drunken Angel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matsunaga canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17436566 — 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: Matsunaga Context triple: [Drunken Angel, hasCharacter, Matsunaga]
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A.
Nagao
Nagao is a Japanese samurai clan name historically associated with the powerful warlord Uesugi Kenshin during the Sengoku period.
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B.
Yorinaga
Yorinaga is a Japanese given name most notably borne by the Heian-period court noble Fujiwara no Yorinaga.
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C.
Yasuhiko
Yasuhiko is a Japanese given name notably borne by Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, a member of the Imperial Family of Japan in the early 20th century.
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D.
Yoshihisa
Yoshihisa is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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E.
Mōri Takamoto
Mōri Takamoto was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō of the Mōri clan who helped expand his family's power in western Honshu before his early death.
- 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: Matsunaga Target entity description: Matsunaga is a tubercular yakuza gangster whose tragic decline underpins the gritty postwar drama of Akira Kurosawa’s film "Drunken Angel."
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A.
Nagao
Nagao is a Japanese samurai clan name historically associated with the powerful warlord Uesugi Kenshin during the Sengoku period.
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B.
Yorinaga
Yorinaga is a Japanese given name most notably borne by the Heian-period court noble Fujiwara no Yorinaga.
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C.
Yasuhiko
Yasuhiko is a Japanese given name notably borne by Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, a member of the Imperial Family of Japan in the early 20th century.
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D.
Yoshihisa
Yoshihisa is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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E.
Mōri Takamoto
Mōri Takamoto was a Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō of the Mōri clan who helped expand his family's power in western Honshu before his early death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.