Kodama Akira
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Kodama Akira is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kodama Akira canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9161041 — 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: Kodama Akira Context triple: [Kodama, hasNotableBearer, Kodama Akira]
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A.
Kodama Kyūichi
Kodama Kyūichi was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat who served in several high-ranking government and administrative posts in the early 20th century.
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B.
Kodama Tetsuya
Kodama Tetsuya is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
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C.
Kodama Kiyoshi
Kodama Kiyoshi is a Japanese individual notable for bearing the surname Kodama, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are not well documented in major English-language sources.
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D.
Akira Mutō
Akira Mutō was a Japanese Imperial Army general during World War II who was convicted as a Class A war criminal for his role in atrocities committed by Japanese forces.
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E.
Kiyoshi Nobori
Kiyoshi Nobori is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of the sports equipment company Molten.
- 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: Kodama Akira Target entity description: Kodama Akira is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
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A.
Kodama Kyūichi
Kodama Kyūichi was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat who served in several high-ranking government and administrative posts in the early 20th century.
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B.
Kodama Tetsuya
Kodama Tetsuya is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
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C.
Kodama Kiyoshi
Kodama Kiyoshi is a Japanese individual notable for bearing the surname Kodama, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are not well documented in major English-language sources.
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D.
Akira Mutō
Akira Mutō was a Japanese Imperial Army general during World War II who was convicted as a Class A war criminal for his role in atrocities committed by Japanese forces.
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E.
Kiyoshi Nobori
Kiyoshi Nobori is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of the sports equipment company Molten.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese people ⓘ |
| familyName | Kodama ⓘ |
| givenName | Akira ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Kodama ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameInNativeLanguage | 児玉明 ⓘ |
| notableAs | prominent bearer of the surname Kodama ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Kodama Akira Description of subject: Kodama Akira is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.