Hiroshi Abe (actor)
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Hiroshi Abe is a prominent Japanese actor and former model known for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in works like "Thermae Romae" and "Still Walking."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiroshi Abe (actor) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5677049 — 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: Hiroshi Abe (actor) Context triple: [Abe, hasNotableBearer, Hiroshi Abe (actor)]
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A.
Kōji Yakusho
Kōji Yakusho is an acclaimed Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in both domestic cinema and international films such as "Shall We Dance?" and "13 Assassins."
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B.
Abe Nobuyuki
Abe Nobuyuki was a Japanese general and politician who served as the last Governor-General of Korea under Japanese rule before and during the early stages of World War II.
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C.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Hiroshi Sakurazaka is a Japanese science fiction author best known internationally for his novel "All You Need Is Kill," which inspired the film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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D.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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E.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 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: Hiroshi Abe (actor) Target entity description: Hiroshi Abe is a prominent Japanese actor and former model known for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in works like "Thermae Romae" and "Still Walking."
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A.
Kōji Yakusho
Kōji Yakusho is an acclaimed Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in both domestic cinema and international films such as "Shall We Dance?" and "13 Assassins."
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B.
Abe Nobuyuki
Abe Nobuyuki was a Japanese general and politician who served as the last Governor-General of Korea under Japanese rule before and during the early stages of World War II.
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C.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Hiroshi Sakurazaka is a Japanese science fiction author best known internationally for his novel "All You Need Is Kill," which inspired the film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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D.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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E.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Blue Ribbon Awards
NERFINISHED
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Hochi Film Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-06-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Chuo University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Abe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
modeling ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| givenName | Hiroshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Aya Ueto
NERFINISHED
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Hirokazu Kore-eda NERFINISHED ⓘ Masami Nagasawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Takashi Yamazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuki Uchida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 189 cm ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Hiroshi Abe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 阿部寛 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Lucius Modestus in Thermae Romae
NERFINISHED
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Ryota Yokoyama in Still Walking ⓘ |
| notableWork |
After the Storm
NERFINISHED
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Aoi Tori NERFINISHED ⓘ Dragon Zakura NERFINISHED ⓘ Shinsengumi! (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shitsurakuen NERFINISHED ⓘ Still Walking NERFINISHED ⓘ The Legend of the Demon Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Thermae Romae NERFINISHED ⓘ Thermae Romae II NERFINISHED ⓘ Trick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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model ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Japan
NERFINISHED
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Kanagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Yokohama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Hiroshi Abe (actor) Description of subject: Hiroshi Abe is a prominent Japanese actor and former model known for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in works like "Thermae Romae" and "Still Walking."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.