Isamu Sonoda
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Isamu Sonoda is a Japanese judoka best known for winning the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Isamu Sonoda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9784763 — 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: Isamu Sonoda Context triple: [Isamu, hasNotableBearer, Isamu Sonoda]
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A.
Isamu Yokoyama
Isamu Yokoyama was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a prominent leadership role in major early Second Sino-Japanese War operations.
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B.
Isamu Chō
Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
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C.
Usaburo Ohtake
Usaburo Ohtake was the husband of renowned Japanese-Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake and the father of prominent Brazilian artists Ruy Ohtake and Ricardo Ohtake.
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D.
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and its applications in organic synthesis.
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E.
Akio Arakawa
Akio Arakawa was a pioneering Japanese atmospheric scientist and numerical modeler whose work fundamentally advanced global climate and weather prediction models.
- 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: Isamu Sonoda Target entity description: Isamu Sonoda is a Japanese judoka best known for winning the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.
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A.
Isamu Yokoyama
Isamu Yokoyama was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a prominent leadership role in major early Second Sino-Japanese War operations.
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B.
Isamu Chō
Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
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C.
Usaburo Ohtake
Usaburo Ohtake was the husband of renowned Japanese-Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake and the father of prominent Brazilian artists Ruy Ohtake and Ricardo Ohtake.
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D.
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and its applications in organic synthesis.
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E.
Akio Arakawa
Akio Arakawa was a pioneering Japanese atmospheric scientist and numerical modeler whose work fundamentally advanced global climate and weather prediction models.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic champion
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human ⓘ judoka ⓘ |
| competedIn | 1976 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| event | lightweight judo ⓘ |
| familyName | Sonoda ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Isamu ⓘ |
| hasAchievement | Olympic judo champion in lightweight division ⓘ |
| isBestKnownFor | winning the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games ⓘ |
| medalType | gold ⓘ |
| name | Isamu Sonoda ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | success in international judo competitions ⓘ |
| occupation | judoka ⓘ |
| OlympicGamesLocation | Montreal ⓘ |
| OlympicGamesYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| participationType | individual sport ⓘ |
| representedCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| sport | judo ⓘ |
| sportDiscipline | Olympic judo ⓘ |
| weightClass | lightweight ⓘ |
| wonMedal | Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
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: Isamu Sonoda Description of subject: Isamu Sonoda is a Japanese judoka best known for winning the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.