Katsukawa Shunshō
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Katsukawa Shunshō was an 18th-century Japanese ukiyo-e artist and influential teacher known for his actor prints and for shaping the early development of masters like Hokusai.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Katsukawa Shunshō canonical | 2 |
| Katsukawa school | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3782907 — 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: Katsukawa Shunshō Context triple: [Katsushika Hokusai, influencedBy, Katsukawa Shunshō]
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A.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige was a renowned Japanese ukiyo-e master best known for his poetic landscape prints, particularly the series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō."
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C.
Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai was a pioneering Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker best known internationally for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
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D.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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E.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
- 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: Katsukawa Shunshō Target entity description: Katsukawa Shunshō was an 18th-century Japanese ukiyo-e artist and influential teacher known for his actor prints and for shaping the early development of masters like Hokusai.
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A.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige was a renowned Japanese ukiyo-e master best known for his poetic landscape prints, particularly the series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō."
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C.
Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai was a pioneering Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker best known internationally for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
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D.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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E.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese painter
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art teacher ⓘ person ⓘ printmaker ⓘ ukiyo-e artist ⓘ |
| activeIn | Edo period ⓘ |
| artisticGenre |
bijin-ga
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surimono ⓘ yakusha-e ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
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woodblock printing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
kabuki theatre prints
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portraiture ⓘ |
| influenced |
Katsushika Hokusai
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surface form:
Hokusai
development of actor print genre ⓘ early development of ukiyo-e masters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential teaching in ukiyo-e
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realistic kabuki actor likenesses ⓘ refined actor portrait style ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Katsukawa Shunshō
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Katsukawa school
|
| movement |
Katsukawa Shunshō
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Katsukawa school
ukiyo-e ⓘ |
| name | Katsukawa Shunshō self-link ⓘ |
| nativeName | 勝川春章 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
actor prints
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beauty prints ⓘ kabuki actor portraits ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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print designer ⓘ teacher ⓘ ukiyo-e designer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Edo
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Tokyo ⓘ |
| student |
Katsushika Hokusai
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surface form:
Hokusai
Katsukawa Shunkō I ⓘ Katsukawa Shuntei ⓘ Katsukawa Shunzan ⓘ Katsukawa Shun’ei ⓘ |
| teacherOf |
Katsushika Hokusai
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surface form:
Hokusai
Katsukawa Shunkō I ⓘ Katsukawa Shuntei ⓘ Katsukawa Shunzan ⓘ Katsukawa Shun’ei ⓘ |
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: Katsukawa Shunshō Description of subject: Katsukawa Shunshō was an 18th-century Japanese ukiyo-e artist and influential teacher known for his actor prints and for shaping the early development of masters like Hokusai.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Katsukawa school
this entity surface form:
Katsukawa school