Kenzo Tange
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Kenzo Tange was a pioneering Japanese architect and urban planner known for blending modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics and for designing landmark projects such as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kenzo Tange canonical | 37 |
| Kenzō Tange | 5 |
| Kenzo Tange buildings | 2 |
| 丹下健三 | 2 |
| Kenzo Tange (involved in design concepts) | 1 |
| Kenzo Tange Associates | 1 |
| Tange Kenzo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T104453 — 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: Kenzo Tange Context triple: [Le Corbusier, influencedArchitect, Kenzo Tange]
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A.
Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki is a renowned Japanese architect known for his modernist designs and thoughtful integration of technology, urban context, and public space.
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B.
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando is a renowned Japanese architect celebrated for his minimalist concrete structures that harmonize light, space, and nature.
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C.
I. M. Pei
I. M. Pei was a renowned Chinese-American architect celebrated for his modernist designs, including iconic museums and cultural landmarks around the world.
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D.
Isamu Yokoyama
Isamu Yokoyama was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a prominent leadership role in major early Second Sino-Japanese War operations.
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E.
Isamu Chō
Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
- 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: Kenzo Tange Target entity description: Kenzo Tange was a pioneering Japanese architect and urban planner known for blending modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics and for designing landmark projects such as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
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A.
Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki is a renowned Japanese architect known for his modernist designs and thoughtful integration of technology, urban context, and public space.
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B.
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando is a renowned Japanese architect celebrated for his minimalist concrete structures that harmonize light, space, and nature.
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C.
I. M. Pei
I. M. Pei was a renowned Chinese-American architect celebrated for his modernist designs, including iconic museums and cultural landmarks around the world.
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D.
Isamu Yokoyama
Isamu Yokoyama was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a prominent leadership role in major early Second Sino-Japanese War operations.
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E.
Isamu Chō
Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Kenzo Tange Description of subject: Kenzo Tange was a pioneering Japanese architect and urban planner known for blending modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics and for designing landmark projects such as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kenzo Tange (involved in design concepts)
this entity surface form:
丹下健三
this entity surface form:
Kenzo Tange Associates
this entity surface form:
Kenzo Tange buildings
this entity surface form:
Kenzō Tange
this entity surface form:
Kenzō Tange
this entity surface form:
Kenzō Tange
this entity surface form:
Tange Kenzo
this entity surface form:
Kenzo Tange buildings
this entity surface form:
Kenzō Tange
subject surface form:
Expo '70
subject surface form:
Expo '70
subject surface form:
Minneapolis Institute of Art
this entity surface form:
Kenzō Tange