Yusaku Maezawa
E829858
Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector, known for founding the online fashion retailer Zozotown and for his high-profile purchases of contemporary art and plans for a private trip around the Moon with SpaceX.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yusaku Maezawa canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9925186 — 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: Yusaku Maezawa Context triple: [Untitled (1982), buyer, Yusaku Maezawa]
-
A.
Yukiya Amano
Yukiya Amano was a Japanese diplomat who served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, overseeing global nuclear non-proliferation and safety efforts.
-
B.
Koichi Wakata
Koichi Wakata is a Japanese aerospace engineer and veteran astronaut who has flown multiple long-duration missions and served as the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station.
-
C.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
-
D.
Kazuo Hirai
Kazuo Hirai is a Japanese businessman best known for serving as the CEO and president of Sony Corporation, where he led major restructuring and revitalization efforts.
-
E.
Satoshi Nakajima
Satoshi Nakajima is a Japanese professional baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading the Orix Buffaloes to multiple Pacific League titles and a Japan Series championship.
- 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: Yusaku Maezawa Target entity description: Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector, known for founding the online fashion retailer Zozotown and for his high-profile purchases of contemporary art and plans for a private trip around the Moon with SpaceX.
-
A.
Yukiya Amano
Yukiya Amano was a Japanese diplomat who served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, overseeing global nuclear non-proliferation and safety efforts.
-
B.
Koichi Wakata
Koichi Wakata is a Japanese aerospace engineer and veteran astronaut who has flown multiple long-duration missions and served as the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station.
-
C.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
-
D.
Kazuo Hirai
Kazuo Hirai is a Japanese businessman best known for serving as the CEO and president of Sony Corporation, where he led major restructuring and revitalization efforts.
-
E.
Satoshi Nakajima
Satoshi Nakajima is a Japanese professional baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading the Orix Buffaloes to multiple Pacific League titles and a Japan Series championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art collector
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| announcedSpaceflightWith | SpaceX ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-11-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Waseda Jitsugyo High School
ⓘ
linked to:
Waseda University Honjo Senior High School
|
| employer | ZOZO, Inc. ⓘ |
| familyName | Maezawa ⓘ |
| founded |
Contemporary Art Foundation
ⓘ
Start Today Co., Ltd. ⓘ Zozotown ⓘ dearMoon project ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | hardcore punk ⓘ |
| givenName | Yusaku ⓘ |
| hasInterest |
contemporary art
ⓘ
music ⓘ space travel ⓘ |
| instrument | drums ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contemporary art collecting
ⓘ
dearMoon lunar tourism project ⓘ founding Zozotown ⓘ large-scale cash giveaway campaigns on social media ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| memberOf | Switch Style ⓘ |
| name | Yusaku Maezawa ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 前澤友作 ⓘ |
| netWorthRanking | one of the wealthiest individuals in Japan ⓘ |
| notablePurchase |
Jean-Michel Basquiat painting bought for over $100 million
ⓘ
works by Alexander Calder ⓘ works by Jeff Koons ⓘ works by Pablo Picasso ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of ZOZOSUIT custom-fit clothing system ⓘ |
| occupation |
art collector
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ investor ⓘ musician ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
|
| positionHeld |
CEO of Start Today Co., Ltd.
ⓘ
CEO of ZOZO, Inc. ⓘ |
| residence | Chiba Prefecture, Japan ⓘ |
| socialMediaPlatform |
Twitter
ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| spacecraftPlanned |
SpaceX Starship
ⓘ
linked to:
Starship (SpaceX)
|
| spaceflightMission | dearMoon circumlunar flight ⓘ |
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: Yusaku Maezawa Description of subject: Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector, known for founding the online fashion retailer Zozotown and for his high-profile purchases of contemporary art and plans for a private trip around the Moon with SpaceX.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Untitled (1982) sold for over 100 million USD at auction