Hiro Narita
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Hiro Narita is a Japanese-American cinematographer known for his work on a range of notable films and television projects, including the fantasy comedy "Hocus Pocus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiro Narita canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3056266 — 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: Hiro Narita Context triple: [Hocus Pocus, cinematographyBy, Hiro Narita]
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
Osami Nagano
Osami Nagano was a Japanese admiral who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff and was a key strategist behind Japan’s early World War II naval operations, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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C.
Taro Okamoto
Taro Okamoto was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist known for his bold abstract works and iconic public sculptures that helped shape postwar Japanese art.
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D.
Yosuke Matsuoka
Yosuke Matsuoka was a prominent Japanese diplomat and foreign minister of the early Shōwa era, known for his role in Japan’s expansionist foreign policy leading up to and during World War II.
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E.
Tachū Naitō
Tachū Naitō was a prominent Japanese structural engineer renowned for designing major towers and high-rise structures in Japan, most famously Tokyo Tower.
- 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: Hiro Narita Target entity description: Hiro Narita is a Japanese-American cinematographer known for his work on a range of notable films and television projects, including the fantasy comedy "Hocus Pocus."
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
Osami Nagano
Osami Nagano was a Japanese admiral who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff and was a key strategist behind Japan’s early World War II naval operations, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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C.
Taro Okamoto
Taro Okamoto was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist known for his bold abstract works and iconic public sculptures that helped shape postwar Japanese art.
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D.
Yosuke Matsuoka
Yosuke Matsuoka was a prominent Japanese diplomat and foreign minister of the early Shōwa era, known for his role in Japan’s expansionist foreign policy leading up to and during World War II.
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E.
Tachū Naitō
Tachū Naitō was a prominent Japanese structural engineer renowned for designing major towers and high-rise structures in Japan, most famously Tokyo Tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese-American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Narita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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drama film ⓘ family film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Hiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| name | Hiro Narita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cinematography on family films
ⓘ
cinematography on fantasy comedy films ⓘ cinematography on major studio productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hocus Pocus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ James and the Giant Peach NERFINISHED ⓘ Never Cry Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country NERFINISHED ⓘ The Joy Luck Club NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocketeer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
ⓘ
director of photography ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
NERFINISHED
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Hocus Pocus NERFINISHED ⓘ Honey, I Shrunk the Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ James and the Giant Peach NERFINISHED ⓘ Never Cry Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country NERFINISHED ⓘ Surviving Picasso NERFINISHED ⓘ The Art of War NERFINISHED ⓘ The Black Stallion Returns NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blue Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ The Joy Luck Club NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outsiders (television miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ The People vs. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocketeer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sunchaser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hiro Narita Description of subject: Hiro Narita is a Japanese-American cinematographer known for his work on a range of notable films and television projects, including the fantasy comedy "Hocus Pocus."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.