Sabusawa
E850111
Sabusawa is a Japanese surname notably borne by Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, an American civic leader and wife of author James A. Michener.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sabusawa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10210616 — 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: Sabusawa Context triple: [Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, familyName, Sabusawa]
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A.
Ishiba
Ishiba is a Japanese surname most prominently associated with politician Shigeru Ishiba, a long-serving member of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and former defense minister.
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B.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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C.
Takeo
Takeo is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in fields such as politics, business, and the arts.
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D.
Oyunohara
Oyunohara is the former riverside site of Kumano Hongu Taisha, now a sacred sandbank marked by a giant torii gate and used for Shinto rituals and pilgrimages in Japan’s Kumano region.
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E.
Murayama
Murayama is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
- 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: Sabusawa Target entity description: Sabusawa is a Japanese surname notably borne by Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, an American civic leader and wife of author James A. Michener.
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A.
Ishiba
Ishiba is a Japanese surname most prominently associated with politician Shigeru Ishiba, a long-serving member of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and former defense minister.
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B.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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C.
Takeo
Takeo is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in fields such as politics, business, and the arts.
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D.
Oyunohara
Oyunohara is the former riverside site of Kumano Hongu Taisha, now a sacred sandbank marked by a giant torii gate and used for Shinto rituals and pilgrimages in Japan’s Kumano region.
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E.
Murayama
Murayama is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese surname
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sabusawa ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mari Yoriko
ⓘ
linked to:
Yoriko
|
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Mari Yoriko Sabusawa ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
civic leader ⓘ |
| spouse |
James A. Michener
ⓘ
linked to:
James Michener
Mari Yoriko Sabusawa ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| usedIn | Japan ⓘ |
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: Sabusawa Description of subject: Sabusawa is a Japanese surname notably borne by Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, an American civic leader and wife of author James A. Michener.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sabusawa