Ōkuma
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Ōkuma is a Japanese surname most famously associated with statesman and educator Ōkuma Shigenobu, a key figure in Japan’s Meiji-era modernization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ōkuma canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5124019 — 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: Ōkuma Context triple: [Ōkuma Shigenobu, familyName, Ōkuma]
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A.
Zuihō
Zuihō was a Japanese light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in several Pacific War operations before being sunk in the Battle off Cape Engaño in 1944.
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B.
Yamato
Yamato was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever constructed.
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C.
Yamato
Yamato refers to the dominant historical ethnic group and cultural core of Japan, traditionally associated with the imperial lineage and Shinto deities such as Amaterasu.
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D.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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E.
Hiryū
Hiryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, best known for its crucial role and eventual sinking during the Battle of Midway in World War II.
- 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: Ōkuma Target entity description: Ōkuma is a Japanese surname most famously associated with statesman and educator Ōkuma Shigenobu, a key figure in Japan’s Meiji-era modernization.
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A.
Zuihō
Zuihō was a Japanese light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in several Pacific War operations before being sunk in the Battle off Cape Engaño in 1944.
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B.
Yamato
Yamato was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever constructed.
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C.
Yamato
Yamato refers to the dominant historical ethnic group and cultural core of Japan, traditionally associated with the imperial lineage and Shinto deities such as Amaterasu.
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D.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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E.
Hiryū
Hiryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, best known for its crucial role and eventual sinking during the Battle of Midway in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese politician
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Japanese surname ⓘ educator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Ōkuma Shigenobu ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| era |
Meiji period
ⓘ
linked to:
Meiji era
|
| familyName | Ōkuma ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| founded | Waseda University ⓘ |
| givenName | Shigenobu ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Ōkuma Shigenobu ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese constitutional politics
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Japanese higher education ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Rikken Seiyūkai (historical Japanese political context – may be approximate)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rikken Seiyūkai
|
| movement | modernization of Japan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding Waseda University
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role in Meiji-era modernization of Japan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Saga Domain ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Foreign Minister of Japan
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linked to:
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Tokyo ⓘ |
| usedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| 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: Ōkuma Description of subject: Ōkuma is a Japanese surname most famously associated with statesman and educator Ōkuma Shigenobu, a key figure in Japan’s Meiji-era modernization.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ōkuma
subject linked to:
Shigenobu
subject linked to:
Hamadori (coastal region of Fukushima)