Mikao Usui
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Mikao Usui was a Japanese spiritual teacher and healer who founded the Reiki system of energy healing in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mikao Usui canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19083412 — 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: Mikao Usui Context triple: [Reiki, hasCreator, Mikao Usui]
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A.
Kotoku Sato
Kotoku Sato was a Japanese lieutenant general in World War II who led the 31st Division during the Burma Campaign, including the ill-fated offensive toward Kohima in India.
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B.
Sadakichi Hartmann
Sadakichi Hartmann was a Japanese-German American art critic, poet, and early modernist writer known for his involvement in the Symbolist movement and the early development of photography criticism.
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C.
Michio Suzuki
Michio Suzuki was a Japanese industrialist and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the company that became Suzuki Motor Corporation, a major global manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.
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D.
Gyosaku Morozumi
Gyosaku Morozumi was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II, notably in the Battle of Mindanao in 1945.
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E.
Toshihiko Izutsu
Toshihiko Izutsu was a Japanese Islamicist and comparative philosopher best known for his pioneering semantic studies of the Qur’an and his influential work on Sufism and Islamic mysticism.
- 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: Mikao Usui Target entity description: Mikao Usui was a Japanese spiritual teacher and healer who founded the Reiki system of energy healing in the early 20th century.
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A.
Kotoku Sato
Kotoku Sato was a Japanese lieutenant general in World War II who led the 31st Division during the Burma Campaign, including the ill-fated offensive toward Kohima in India.
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B.
Sadakichi Hartmann
Sadakichi Hartmann was a Japanese-German American art critic, poet, and early modernist writer known for his involvement in the Symbolist movement and the early development of photography criticism.
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C.
Michio Suzuki
Michio Suzuki was a Japanese industrialist and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the company that became Suzuki Motor Corporation, a major global manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.
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D.
Gyosaku Morozumi
Gyosaku Morozumi was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II, notably in the Battle of Mindanao in 1945.
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E.
Toshihiko Izutsu
Toshihiko Izutsu was a Japanese Islamicist and comparative philosopher best known for his pioneering semantic studies of the Qur’an and his influential work on Sufism and Islamic mysticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.