Emiko Owada
E466427
Emiko Owada is a Japanese noblewoman and former diplomat, best known as the mother of Empress Masako of Japan and the wife of jurist and former International Court of Justice president Hisashi Owada.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emiko Owada canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4630394 — 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: Emiko Owada Context triple: [Hisashi Owada, spouse, Emiko Owada]
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A.
Yumiko Owada
Yumiko Owada is the mother of Masako Owada, who became Empress Masako of Japan.
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B.
Masako Owada
Masako Owada, now Empress Masako of Japan, is a Harvard- and Oxford-educated former diplomat who became the consort of Emperor Naruhito and a prominent member of the Japanese imperial family.
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C.
Reiko Yamamoto
Reiko Yamamoto was the wife of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the famed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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D.
Ayako Wakao
Ayako Wakao is a renowned Japanese actress celebrated for her prolific film career from the 1950s onward, particularly in collaborations with director Yasuzō Masumura.
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E.
Akiko Yoshida
Akiko Yoshida is an individual known primarily through her close personal association with Steve Smith.
- 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: Emiko Owada Target entity description: Emiko Owada is a Japanese noblewoman and former diplomat, best known as the mother of Empress Masako of Japan and the wife of jurist and former International Court of Justice president Hisashi Owada.
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A.
Yumiko Owada
Yumiko Owada is the mother of Masako Owada, who became Empress Masako of Japan.
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B.
Masako Owada
Masako Owada, now Empress Masako of Japan, is a Harvard- and Oxford-educated former diplomat who became the consort of Emperor Naruhito and a prominent member of the Japanese imperial family.
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C.
Reiko Yamamoto
Reiko Yamamoto was the wife of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the famed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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D.
Ayako Wakao
Ayako Wakao is a renowned Japanese actress celebrated for her prolific film career from the 1950s onward, particularly in collaborations with director Yasuzō Masumura.
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E.
Akiko Yoshida
Akiko Yoshida is an individual known primarily through her close personal association with Steve Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese noblewoman
ⓘ
former diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| childOf | Emiko Owada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Owada ⓘ |
| givenName | Emiko ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Japanese nobility ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Empress Masako of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Empress Masako
Masako Owada ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
Empress Masako of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Empress Masako
Hisashi Owada ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Empress Masako of Japan
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being the wife of Hisashi Owada ⓘ |
| notableWork | diplomatic service of Japan ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Empress of Japan
ⓘ
President of the International Court of Justice ⓘ diplomat ⓘ |
| residence | Japan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Emiko Owada
ⓘ
Hisashi Owada ⓘ |
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: Emiko Owada Description of subject: Emiko Owada is a Japanese noblewoman and former diplomat, best known as the mother of Empress Masako of Japan and the wife of jurist and former International Court of Justice president Hisashi Owada.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.