Yamada
E426932
Yamada is a common Japanese surname borne by many notable figures across fields such as politics, arts, sports, and academia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamada canonical | 5 |
| Yamada (historical, merged) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2558871 — 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: Yamada Context triple: [Otozō Yamada, familyName, Yamada]
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A.
Yoshida
Yoshida is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Murayama
Murayama is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
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C.
Tanaka
Tanaka is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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D.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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E.
Satō
Satō is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
- 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: Yamada Target entity description: Yamada is a common Japanese surname borne by many notable figures across fields such as politics, arts, sports, and academia.
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A.
Yoshida
Yoshida is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Murayama
Murayama is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
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C.
Tanaka
Tanaka is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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D.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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E.
Satō
Satō is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ |
| associatedWithField |
academia
ⓘ
arts ⓘ politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| canBeWrittenIn |
hiragana
ⓘ
katakana ⓘ |
| componentKanji |
山
ⓘ
田 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese culture ⓘ |
| derivedFromToponym | yes ⓘ |
| etymologicalCategory | surname from geographic features ⓘ |
| frequencyInJapan | common ⓘ |
| hasGender | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearers | yes ⓘ |
| ISO15924Script | Jpan ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| meaning | mountain field ⓘ |
| nameCategory | surname ⓘ |
| nameOrder |
followsGivenNameInWesternOrder
ⓘ
precedesGivenNameInJapaneseOrder ⓘ |
| nameStructure | two-kanji surname ⓘ |
| nameType | locational surname ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Hepburn ⓘ |
| romanizedAs | Yamada ⓘ |
| scriptVariant | kanji surname ⓘ |
| typicalKanjiForm | 山田 ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name in Japanese naming conventions ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Japan
ⓘ
Japanese diaspora communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Kanji ⓘ |
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: Yamada Description of subject: Yamada is a common Japanese surname borne by many notable figures across fields such as politics, arts, sports, and academia.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.