Tomoko Sakurai
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Tomoko Sakurai is the widow of renowned German conductor Kurt Masur, known for her role in his personal and professional life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomoko Sakurai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7604177 — 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: Tomoko Sakurai Context triple: [Kurt Masur, spouse, Tomoko Sakurai]
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A.
Tomoko Satō
Tomoko Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Satō.
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B.
Tomoko Ohta
Tomoko Ohta is a Japanese molecular evolutionary biologist best known for proposing the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution, which refined and extended Motoo Kimura’s neutral theory.
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C.
Makiko Tanaka
Makiko Tanaka is a Japanese politician and former foreign minister, known as the outspoken daughter of influential former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
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D.
Teruko Hirashiki
Teruko Hirashiki is best known as the wife of prominent Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki, designer of the original World Trade Center.
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E.
Makiko Ohmoto
Makiko Ohmoto is a Japanese voice actress best known for voicing Kirby in the long-running Kirby video game and anime franchise.
- 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: Tomoko Sakurai Target entity description: Tomoko Sakurai is the widow of renowned German conductor Kurt Masur, known for her role in his personal and professional life.
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A.
Tomoko Satō
Tomoko Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Satō.
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B.
Tomoko Ohta
Tomoko Ohta is a Japanese molecular evolutionary biologist best known for proposing the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution, which refined and extended Motoo Kimura’s neutral theory.
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C.
Makiko Tanaka
Makiko Tanaka is a Japanese politician and former foreign minister, known as the outspoken daughter of influential former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
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D.
Teruko Hirashiki
Teruko Hirashiki is best known as the wife of prominent Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki, designer of the original World Trade Center.
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E.
Makiko Ohmoto
Makiko Ohmoto is a Japanese voice actress best known for voicing Kirby in the long-running Kirby video game and anime franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conductor
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
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Japan ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in the personal life of Kurt Masur
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role in the professional life of Kurt Masur ⓘ |
| occupation | orchestral conductor ⓘ |
| relative | Kurt Masur ⓘ |
| spouse | Kurt Masur ⓘ |
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: Tomoko Sakurai Description of subject: Tomoko Sakurai is the widow of renowned German conductor Kurt Masur, known for her role in his personal and professional life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.