Nobuyoshi Mutō
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Nobuyoshi Mutō was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading command role in Japan’s early 1930s military campaigns in China.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nobuyoshi Mutō canonical | 2 |
| Nobuyoshi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3691104 — 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: Nobuyoshi Mutō Context triple: [Defense of the Great Wall, combatantCommander, Nobuyoshi Mutō]
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A.
Yūsaku Kamekura
Yūsaku Kamekura was a pioneering Japanese graphic designer renowned for his modernist posters and visual identities, including iconic work for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
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B.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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C.
Yosuke Kubozuka
Yosuke Kubozuka is a Japanese actor and former model known for his intense, unconventional performances in film and television, including prominent roles in works like "Go" and "Silence."
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D.
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and its applications in organic synthesis.
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E.
Seimon Ishibashi
Seimon Ishibashi is a historic stone bridge at the main entrance to Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, often photographed alongside the adjacent Nijūbashi Bridge.
- 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: Nobuyoshi Mutō Target entity description: Nobuyoshi Mutō was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading command role in Japan’s early 1930s military campaigns in China.
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A.
Yūsaku Kamekura
Yūsaku Kamekura was a pioneering Japanese graphic designer renowned for his modernist posters and visual identities, including iconic work for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
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B.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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C.
Yosuke Kubozuka
Yosuke Kubozuka is a Japanese actor and former model known for his intense, unconventional performances in film and television, including prominent roles in works like "Go" and "Silence."
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D.
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and its applications in organic synthesis.
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E.
Seimon Ishibashi
Seimon Ishibashi is a historic stone bridge at the main entrance to Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, often photographed alongside the adjacent Nijūbashi Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army general
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human ⓘ |
| activeYears |
1930s
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early 20th century ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| citizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| conflict |
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese occupation of Manchuria
Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
|
| country |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| era |
Shōwa period
ⓘ
linked to:
Showa era
|
| familyName |
Mutō
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linked to:
Matui
|
| fieldOfWork | military affairs ⓘ |
| givenName |
Nobuyoshi
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linked to:
Nobuyoshi Mutō
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership in early 1930s Japanese military campaigns in China ⓘ |
| notableRole | senior commander in Imperial Japanese Army operations in China ⓘ |
| notableWork | leading command role in Japan’s early 1930s military campaigns in China ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participantIn | Japanese military campaigns in China in the early 1930s ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
China
ⓘ
Manchuria ⓘ |
| 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: Nobuyoshi Mutō Description of subject: Nobuyoshi Mutō was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading command role in Japan’s early 1930s military campaigns in China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nobuyoshi Mutō