Yamauchi
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Yamauchi is a Japanese surname notably associated with the founding family of Nintendo and other prominent historical figures in Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamauchi canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5079680 — 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: Yamauchi Context triple: [Fusajiro Yamauchi, familyName, Yamauchi]
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A.
Takamori
Takamori is the given name of Saigō Takamori, a prominent 19th-century Japanese samurai and political figure often called the "last true samurai."
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B.
Itagaki
Itagaki is a Japanese surname associated with several notable historical and contemporary figures in Japan.
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C.
Kiyokawa
Kiyokawa is a small rural village in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Hiranuma
Hiranuma is a notable district within Nishi Ward in Yokohama, Japan, known as part of the city’s central urban area.
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E.
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.
- 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: Yamauchi Target entity description: Yamauchi is a Japanese surname notably associated with the founding family of Nintendo and other prominent historical figures in Japan.
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A.
Takamori
Takamori is the given name of Saigō Takamori, a prominent 19th-century Japanese samurai and political figure often called the "last true samurai."
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B.
Itagaki
Itagaki is a Japanese surname associated with several notable historical and contemporary figures in Japan.
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C.
Kiyokawa
Kiyokawa is a small rural village in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, known for its mountainous scenery and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Hiranuma
Hiranuma is a notable district within Nishi Ward in Yokohama, Japan, known as part of the city’s central urban area.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese surname
ⓘ
family ⓘ human ⓘ video game company ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Kyoto, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
|
| category | Japanese-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1927-11-07
ⓘ
c. 1859 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1940
ⓘ
2013-09-19 ⓘ |
| employer | Nintendo ⓘ |
| familyName | Yamauchi ⓘ |
| founder | Fusajiro Yamauchi ⓘ |
| givenName |
Fusajiro
ⓘ
Hiroshi ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Kyoto, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
|
| industry |
consumer electronics
ⓘ
video games ⓘ |
| industryAssociation |
playing card manufacturing
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video game industry ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yamauchi family (Nintendo founders) ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Hiroshi Yamauchi ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Yamauchi family (Nintendo founders) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding Nintendo Koppai
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founding and controlling Nintendo ⓘ transforming Nintendo into a video game company ⓘ |
| notableWork |
oversaw creation of the Famicom/NES
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oversaw global expansion of Nintendo ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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entrepreneur ⓘ playing card manufacturer ⓘ |
| originalBusiness | hanafuda playing cards ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kyoto, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
|
| placeOfDeath |
Kyoto, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kyoto
|
| positionHeld | president of Nintendo ⓘ |
| 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: Yamauchi Description of subject: Yamauchi is a Japanese surname notably associated with the founding family of Nintendo and other prominent historical figures in Japan.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.