Sugimoto
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Sugimoto is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as art, sports, and academia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sugimoto canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4745934 — 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: Sugimoto Context triple: [Hiroshi Sugimoto, familyName, Sugimoto]
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A.
Takanami
Takanami was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being sunk in the Battle of Tassafaronga in 1942.
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B.
Takaishi
Takaishi is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as a small industrial and residential hub within the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Takayoshi
Takayoshi is a Japanese given name notably borne by Kido Takayoshi, a key samurai and statesman of the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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E.
Kiyokawa
Kiyokawa is a small rural village in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Sugimoto Target entity description: Sugimoto is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as art, sports, and academia.
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A.
Takanami
Takanami was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being sunk in the Battle of Tassafaronga in 1942.
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B.
Takaishi
Takaishi is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as a small industrial and residential hub within the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Takayoshi
Takayoshi is a Japanese given name notably borne by Kido Takayoshi, a key samurai and statesman of the Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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E.
Kiyokawa
Kiyokawa is a small rural village in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese surname
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person ⓘ |
| citizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| familyName | Sugimoto ⓘ |
| familyNameCategory | Japanese-language surnames ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Japanese society
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conceptual art ⓘ fine art photography ⓘ nuclear physics ⓘ |
| givenName | Hiroshi ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Atsuko Sugimoto
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Hiroshi Sugimoto ⓘ Kenji Sugimoto ⓘ Masaki Sugimoto ⓘ Ryōta Sugimoto ⓘ Tetsuji Sugimoto ⓘ Yoshio Sugimoto ⓘ Yūji Sugimoto ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| occupation |
contemporary artist
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footballer ⓘ judoka ⓘ photographer ⓘ physicist ⓘ politician ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Hepburn romanization ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | 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: Sugimoto Description of subject: Sugimoto is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as art, sports, and academia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sugimoto