Kon Ichikawa
E819106
Kon Ichikawa was a prominent Japanese film director known for his stylistic versatility and acclaimed works such as "The Burmese Harp" and "Fires on the Plain."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kon Ichikawa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9717632 — 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: Kon Ichikawa Context triple: [Ayako Wakao, collaboratedWith, Kon Ichikawa]
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A.
Imamura Shohei
Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
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B.
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi was a renowned Japanese film director celebrated for his long-take visual style and poignant portrayals of women and social injustice in classics such as "Ugetsu" and "Sansho the Bailiff."
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C.
Yasujiro Homma
Yasujiro Homma was a Japanese general during World War II, best known for commanding the invasion of the Philippines and later being executed for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
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D.
Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu was a seminal Japanese film director renowned for his minimalist style, low camera angles, and deeply human family dramas such as "Tokyo Story."
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E.
Tsukada Hideo
Tsukada Hideo is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Tsukada.
- 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: Kon Ichikawa Target entity description: Kon Ichikawa was a prominent Japanese film director known for his stylistic versatility and acclaimed works such as "The Burmese Harp" and "Fires on the Plain."
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A.
Imamura Shohei
Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
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B.
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi was a renowned Japanese film director celebrated for his long-take visual style and poignant portrayals of women and social injustice in classics such as "Ugetsu" and "Sansho the Bailiff."
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C.
Yasujiro Homma
Yasujiro Homma was a Japanese general during World War II, best known for commanding the invasion of the Philippines and later being executed for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
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D.
Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu was a seminal Japanese film director renowned for his minimalist style, low camera angles, and deeply human family dramas such as "Tokyo Story."
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E.
Tsukada Hideo
Tsukada Hideo is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Tsukada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Kon Ichikawa Description of subject: Kon Ichikawa was a prominent Japanese film director known for his stylistic versatility and acclaimed works such as "The Burmese Harp" and "Fires on the Plain."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.