Toshimichi
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Toshimichi is a Japanese given name most famously borne by Ōkubo Toshimichi, a key statesman and leader of the Meiji Restoration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toshimichi canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3352774 — 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: Toshimichi Context triple: [Ōkubo Toshimichi, givenName, Toshimichi]
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A.
Kenjirō
Kenjirō is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by multiple notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and entertainment.
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B.
Shintaro
Shintaro is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in sports, entertainment, and politics.
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C.
Shinpei
Shinpei is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
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D.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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E.
Tadahiko
Tadahiko is a Japanese masculine given name used by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and academia.
- 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: Toshimichi Target entity description: Toshimichi is a Japanese given name most famously borne by Ōkubo Toshimichi, a key statesman and leader of the Meiji Restoration.
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A.
Kenjirō
Kenjirō is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by multiple notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and entertainment.
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B.
Shintaro
Shintaro is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in sports, entertainment, and politics.
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C.
Shinpei
Shinpei is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
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D.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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E.
Tadahiko
Tadahiko is a Japanese masculine given name used by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name
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Japanese statesman ⓘ Meiji Restoration leader ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ person ⓘ samurai ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| era |
Meiji period
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linked to:
Meiji era
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| familyName | Ōkubo ⓘ |
| givenName | Toshimichi ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Ōkubo Toshimichi ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
hiragana
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kanji ⓘ katakana ⓘ |
| notableFor |
modernization of Japan
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overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Meiji Restoration ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Home Minister of Japan
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linked to:
内務大臣
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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: Toshimichi Description of subject: Toshimichi is a Japanese given name most famously borne by Ōkubo Toshimichi, a key statesman and leader of the Meiji Restoration.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Toshimichi