Toshiyuki Sakata
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Toshiyuki Sakata, better known by his stage name Harold Sakata, was a Japanese American professional wrestler and actor most famous for playing the henchman Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Toshiyuki Sakata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5045778 — 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: Toshiyuki Sakata Context triple: [Oddjob, portrayedBy, Toshiyuki Sakata]
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A.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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B.
Yoshinori Sakai
Yoshinori Sakai was a Japanese track athlete symbolically chosen to light the cauldron at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics because he was born in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped.
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C.
Nobuyuki Katsube
Nobuyuki Katsube is a Japanese actor known for his roles in film and television, including a starring performance in the drama "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter."
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D.
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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E.
Shōzō Sakurai
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
- 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: Toshiyuki Sakata Target entity description: Toshiyuki Sakata, better known by his stage name Harold Sakata, was a Japanese American professional wrestler and actor most famous for playing the henchman Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
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A.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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B.
Yoshinori Sakai
Yoshinori Sakai was a Japanese track athlete symbolically chosen to light the cauldron at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics because he was born in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped.
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C.
Nobuyuki Katsube
Nobuyuki Katsube is a Japanese actor known for his roles in film and television, including a starring performance in the drama "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter."
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D.
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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E.
Shōzō Sakurai
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional wrestler ⓘ weightlifter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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professional wrestling ⓘ television industry ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Goldfinger ⓘ |
| birthName | Toshiyuki Sakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| competitionClass | light-heavyweight ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-07-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-07-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Japanese American
ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Americans
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| familyName | Sakata ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
spy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Toshiyuki ⓘ |
| heritage | Japanese descent ⓘ |
| hostCity |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| knownFor | portraying Oddjob in Goldfinger ⓘ |
| medalistAt |
1948 Summer Olympics
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linked to:
Summer Olympics 1948
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| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Oddjob ⓘ |
| notableWork | Goldfinger ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
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professional wrestler ⓘ television actor ⓘ weightlifter ⓘ |
| olympicDiscipline | men's light-heavyweight weightlifting ⓘ |
| olympicMedal | silver medal ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1948 Summer Olympics
ⓘ
linked to:
Summer Olympics 1948
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| partOf |
James Bond film series
ⓘ
linked to:
James Bond (film)
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| placeOfBirth | Holualoa, Hawaii ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Honolulu, Hawaii
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linked to:
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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| representedCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | Hawaii ⓘ |
| sport | weightlifting ⓘ |
| stageName | Harold Sakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Sean Connery ⓘ |
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: Toshiyuki Sakata Description of subject: Toshiyuki Sakata, better known by his stage name Harold Sakata, was a Japanese American professional wrestler and actor most famous for playing the henchman Oddjob in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.