Yohei Kono
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Yohei Kono is a Japanese politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives who also served as foreign minister and is known for the 1993 “Kono Statement” acknowledging the Japanese military’s role in wartime comfort women.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yohei Kono canonical | 3 |
| Yōhei Kōno | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1532344 — 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: Yohei Kono Context triple: [Taro Kono, father, Yohei Kono]
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A.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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B.
Naoki Tanaka
Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
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C.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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D.
Hayato Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese prime minister known for his “income-doubling plan” and for overseeing rapid economic growth and modernization in postwar Japan.
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E.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
- 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: Yohei Kono Target entity description: Yohei Kono is a Japanese politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives who also served as foreign minister and is known for the 1993 “Kono Statement” acknowledging the Japanese military’s role in wartime comfort women.
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A.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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B.
Naoki Tanaka
Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
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C.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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D.
Hayato Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese prime minister known for his “income-doubling plan” and for overseeing rapid economic growth and modernization in postwar Japan.
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E.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese politician
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human ⓘ |
| child | Taro Kono ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Waseda University ⓘ |
| era | Heisei period politics ⓘ |
| familyName | Kono ⓘ |
| father | Ichiro Kono ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
East Asian diplomacy
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Japanese national politics ⓘ foreign policy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yohei ⓘ |
| hasRole |
advocate of reconciliation with neighboring Asian countries
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leader in LDP dovish wing ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese discourse on wartime responsibility
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Japan–South Korea relations ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese–Korean relations
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| knownFor | 1993 Kono Statement on comfort women ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | House of Representatives of Japan ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
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linked to:
Liberal Democratic Party
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| name | Yohei Kono ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Kono Statement
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linked to:
Kono
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| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Japanese cabinet as foreign minister
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Liberal Democratic Party leadership ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Liberal Democratic Party faction leader ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
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President of the House of Councillors Budget Committee ⓘ President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan ⓘ Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan ⓘ |
| residence | Japan ⓘ |
| signed | 1993 Kono Statement ⓘ |
| statement | acknowledged involvement of the Imperial Japanese Army in coercing comfort women during World War II ⓘ |
| topicOf | historical debates on Japan’s wartime responsibility ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yohei Kono Description of subject: Yohei Kono is a Japanese politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives who also served as foreign minister and is known for the 1993 “Kono Statement” acknowledging the Japanese military’s role in wartime comfort women.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yohei Kono