Jōtarō Watanabe
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Jōtarō Watanabe was a Japanese figure who became historically known as one of the prominent victims killed during the 1936 February 26 Incident, an attempted military coup in Tokyo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jōtarō Watanabe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4104800 — 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: Jōtarō Watanabe Context triple: [February 26 Incident, notableVictim, Jōtarō Watanabe]
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A.
Michio Watanabe
Michio Watanabe was a prominent Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who held key cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and was known as a powerful party faction leader.
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B.
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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C.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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D.
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.
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E.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
- 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: Jōtarō Watanabe Target entity description: Jōtarō Watanabe was a Japanese figure who became historically known as one of the prominent victims killed during the 1936 February 26 Incident, an attempted military coup in Tokyo.
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A.
Michio Watanabe
Michio Watanabe was a prominent Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who held key cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and was known as a powerful party faction leader.
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B.
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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C.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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D.
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.
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E.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
attempted military coup
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human ⓘ victim of the February 26 Incident ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in the February 26 Incident ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| event | February 26 Incident ⓘ |
| hasRole | civilian victim in political violence ⓘ |
| location | Tokyo ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | being killed during the February 26 Incident ⓘ |
| partOf | victims of the 1936 attempted military coup in Tokyo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tokyo ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1936 ⓘ |
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: Jōtarō Watanabe Description of subject: Jōtarō Watanabe was a Japanese figure who became historically known as one of the prominent victims killed during the 1936 February 26 Incident, an attempted military coup in Tokyo.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.