Jiro
E529614
Jiro is a masculine Japanese given name commonly associated with notable figures in Japanese culture, including engineers, artists, and fictional characters.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jiro canonical | 2 |
| Jiro Ichimonji | 1 |
| jiro | 1 |
| jirō | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5516738 — 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: Jiro Context triple: [Jiro Horikoshi, givenName, Jiro]
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A.
Seikichi
Seikichi is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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B.
Fusajiro
Fusajiro is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Fusajiro Yamauchi, the founder of the company that would become Nintendo.
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C.
Seiji
Seiji is a Japanese given name most famously associated with the renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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D.
Tetsuzō
Tetsuzō is an alternate name for Katsushika Hokusai, the renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist best known for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji."
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E.
Shinya
Shinya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
- 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: Jiro Target entity description: Jiro is a masculine Japanese given name commonly associated with notable figures in Japanese culture, including engineers, artists, and fictional characters.
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A.
Seikichi
Seikichi is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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B.
Fusajiro
Fusajiro is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Fusajiro Yamauchi, the founder of the company that would become Nintendo.
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C.
Seiji
Seiji is a Japanese given name most famously associated with the renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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D.
Tetsuzō
Tetsuzō is an alternate name for Katsushika Hokusai, the renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist best known for his woodblock print series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji."
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E.
Shinya
Shinya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Japanese artists
ⓘ
Japanese engineers ⓘ Japanese fictional characters ⓘ |
| commonKanjiSpelling |
二郎
ⓘ
慈郎 ⓘ 次郎 ⓘ 治郎 ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese naming traditions ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerType |
anime character
ⓘ
artist ⓘ engineer ⓘ manga character ⓘ video game character ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Jirou
ⓘ
linked to:
Jirō
Jirō ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| meaningDependsOnKanji | true ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
Japanese masculine given names
ⓘ
Masculine given names ⓘ |
| nameElement | 郎 ⓘ |
| nameElementMeaning |
son
ⓘ
young man ⓘ |
| oftenUsedFor | second son ⓘ |
| regionOfUse | Japan ⓘ |
| transliterationSystem | Hepburn romanization ⓘ |
| typicalNameOrder |
family name followed by given name in Japanese order
ⓘ
given name followed by family name in Western order ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
hiragana
ⓘ
kanji ⓘ katakana ⓘ |
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: Jiro Description of subject: Jiro is a masculine Japanese given name commonly associated with notable figures in Japanese culture, including engineers, artists, and fictional characters.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jiro
subject linked to:
Akira Kurosawa’s film Ran (1985), loosely based on King Lear
linked to: Jiro
linked to: Jiro