Masayoshi Son
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Masayoshi Son is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and investor, best known as the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group and for his influential role in global technology investing.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Masayoshi Son canonical | 22 |
| 孫正義 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T262314 — 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: Masayoshi Son Context triple: [University of Tokyo, hasNotableAlumni, Masayoshi Son]
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A.
Kazuo Inamori
Kazuo Inamori was a Japanese entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Buddhist-influenced business leader best known for founding Kyocera and KDDI and for his influential management and ethical philosophy.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Azim Premji
Azim Premji is an Indian business tycoon and philanthropist, best known as the longtime chairman of Wipro and one of the world’s leading charitable donors.
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D.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and engineer best known for founding SpaceX, leading Tesla, and driving innovation in electric vehicles, space exploration, and other frontier technologies.
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E.
Andrew S. Grove
Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-American engineer, businessman, and longtime Intel CEO who played a pivotal role in shaping the modern semiconductor industry and personal computing.
- 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: Masayoshi Son Target entity description: Masayoshi Son is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and investor, best known as the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group and for his influential role in global technology investing.
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A.
Kazuo Inamori
Kazuo Inamori was a Japanese entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Buddhist-influenced business leader best known for founding Kyocera and KDDI and for his influential management and ethical philosophy.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Azim Premji
Azim Premji is an Indian business tycoon and philanthropist, best known as the longtime chairman of Wipro and one of the world’s leading charitable donors.
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D.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and engineer best known for founding SpaceX, leading Tesla, and driving innovation in electric vehicles, space exploration, and other frontier technologies.
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E.
Andrew S. Grove
Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-American engineer, businessman, and longtime Intel CEO who played a pivotal role in shaping the modern semiconductor industry and personal computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| businessPhilosophy | aggressive, long-term technology investing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-08-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Zainichi Korean ⓘ |
| familyName | Son ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | economics ⓘ |
| founded |
SoftBank Group
ⓘ
surface form:
SoftBank
SoftBank Group ⓘ
surface form:
SoftBank Group Corp.
SoftBank Group ⓘ
surface form:
SoftBank Internet and Media (SIMI)
SoftBank Vision Fund ⓘ |
| givenName | Masayoshi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the SoftBank Vision Fund
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early investment in Alibaba Group ⓘ founding SoftBank ⓘ large-scale investments in technology companies ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Masayoshi Son self-link ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Masayoshi Son
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
孫正義
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| netWorthRanking | one of the richest people in Japan ⓘ |
| notableInvestment |
ARM
ⓘ
surface form:
ARM Holdings
Alibaba Group ⓘ ByteDance ⓘ Coupang ⓘ Didi Chuxing ⓘ DoorDash ⓘ Grab ⓘ Ola Cabs ⓘ Sprint Corporation ⓘ Uber ⓘ
surface form:
Uber Technologies
WeWork ⓘ |
| notableStrategy | using large-scale leverage to fund technology investments ⓘ |
| notableWork | building SoftBank into a global technology investment conglomerate ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of SoftBank Group
ⓘ
chief executive officer of SoftBank Group ⓘ founder of SoftBank Group ⓘ |
| residence |
Tokyo
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surface form:
Tokyo, Japan
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| spouse | Masami Son ⓘ |
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: Masayoshi Son Description of subject: Masayoshi Son is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and investor, best known as the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group and for his influential role in global technology investing.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
孫正義
subject surface form:
Tosu
subject surface form:
Tosu
subject surface form:
SoftBank Investment Advisers