Yataro Iwasaki
E442464
Yataro Iwasaki was a Japanese industrialist who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate, which grew into one of Japan’s largest and most influential business groups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yataro Iwasaki canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4434054 — 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: Yataro Iwasaki Context triple: [Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, foundedBy, Yataro Iwasaki]
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A.
Soichi Noguchi
Soichi Noguchi is a Japanese astronaut and aerospace engineer known for multiple spaceflights with NASA and JAXA, including long-duration missions to the International Space Station.
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B.
Shōji Nishimura
Shōji Nishimura was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II, noted for his role and death in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Rikichi Tsukada
Rikichi Tsukada was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led Japanese forces during World War II, including in the later stages of the Pacific War.
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D.
Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi was a Japanese poet and essayist known for his English-language verse and for bridging Japanese and Western literary cultures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Otozō Yamada
Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.
- 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: Yataro Iwasaki Target entity description: Yataro Iwasaki was a Japanese industrialist who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate, which grew into one of Japan’s largest and most influential business groups.
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A.
Soichi Noguchi
Soichi Noguchi is a Japanese astronaut and aerospace engineer known for multiple spaceflights with NASA and JAXA, including long-duration missions to the International Space Station.
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B.
Shōji Nishimura
Shōji Nishimura was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II, noted for his role and death in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Rikichi Tsukada
Rikichi Tsukada was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led Japanese forces during World War II, including in the later stages of the Pacific War.
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D.
Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi was a Japanese poet and essayist known for his English-language verse and for bridging Japanese and Western literary cultures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Otozō Yamada
Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ industrialist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mitsubishi Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Tokyo, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessDomain |
finance
ⓘ
mining ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ shipping ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stomach cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1835-01-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1885-02-07 ⓘ |
| employer | Tosa Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Meiji period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| family | Iwasaki family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Iwasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Mitsubishi shipping business ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Mitsubishi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mitsubishi Shokai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yataro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMottoSymbol | Mitsubishi three-diamond emblem (Mitsubishi mark) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese industrialization
ⓘ
development of Japanese zaibatsu system ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing a major Japanese zaibatsu
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founding Mitsubishi ⓘ |
| name | Yataro Iwasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 岩崎 弥太郎 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | expansion of Mitsubishi into a zaibatsu ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ industrialist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Aki, Tosa Province, Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
present-day Aki, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tokyo, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head of Mitsubishi ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
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: Yataro Iwasaki Description of subject: Yataro Iwasaki was a Japanese industrialist who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate, which grew into one of Japan’s largest and most influential business groups.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.