Heigo Kurosawa
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Heigo Kurosawa was a Japanese benshi (silent film narrator) and the older brother of renowned film director Akira Kurosawa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heigo Kurosawa canonical | 2 |
| Kurosawa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4245862 — 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: Heigo Kurosawa Context triple: [Akira Kurosawa, sibling, Heigo Kurosawa]
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A.
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter renowned for his influential samurai epics and innovative cinematic techniques that shaped world cinema.
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B.
Imamura Shohei
Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
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C.
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Yasujiro Tsutsumi was a powerful Japanese businessman and politician who built a vast corporate empire, including the Seibu Group, and became one of the wealthiest individuals in postwar Japan.
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D.
Akira Ifukube
Akira Ifukube was a Japanese composer best known for his iconic film scores for the Godzilla series and other Toho kaiju movies.
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E.
Ishirō Honda
Ishirō Honda was a Japanese film director best known for pioneering the kaiju genre with classics like the original Godzilla and other iconic monster movies.
- 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: Heigo Kurosawa Target entity description: Heigo Kurosawa was a Japanese benshi (silent film narrator) and the older brother of renowned film director Akira Kurosawa.
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A.
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter renowned for his influential samurai epics and innovative cinematic techniques that shaped world cinema.
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B.
Imamura Shohei
Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
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C.
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Yasujiro Tsutsumi was a powerful Japanese businessman and politician who built a vast corporate empire, including the Seibu Group, and became one of the wealthiest individuals in postwar Japan.
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D.
Akira Ifukube
Akira Ifukube was a Japanese composer best known for his iconic film scores for the Godzilla series and other Toho kaiju movies.
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E.
Ishirō Honda
Ishirō Honda was a Japanese film director best known for pioneering the kaiju genre with classics like the original Godzilla and other iconic monster movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
benshi
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human ⓘ silent film narrator ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
Taishō era
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early Shōwa era ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| describedIn | Akira Kurosawa’s autobiography "Something Like an Autobiography" ⓘ |
| familyName |
Kurosawa
ⓘ
linked to:
Heigo Kurosawa
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| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
film narration ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Heigo ⓘ |
| hasGenre | silent film narration ⓘ |
| influenced | Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| knownFor |
performing live narration for foreign and Japanese silent films
ⓘ
politically and intellectually engaged benshi commentary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Heigo Kurosawa ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 黒澤平吾 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on the early artistic development of Akira Kurosawa
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work as a benshi during the silent film era in Japan ⓘ |
| occupation |
benshi
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silent film narrator ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese silent cinema culture ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Japan ⓘ |
| relative | Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| sibling |
Akira Kurosawa
ⓘ
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (brother of Akira) ⓘ
linked to:
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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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: Heigo Kurosawa Description of subject: Heigo Kurosawa was a Japanese benshi (silent film narrator) and the older brother of renowned film director Akira Kurosawa.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Heigo Kurosawa