Yuji Okumoto
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Yuji Okumoto is a Japanese-American actor best known for his role as the antagonist Chozen Toguchi in "The Karate Kid Part II" and its continuation in the series "Cobra Kai."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yuji Okumoto canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839658 — 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: Yuji Okumoto Context triple: [True Believer, starring, Yuji Okumoto]
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A.
Kyuji Fujikawa
Kyuji Fujikawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known as a dominant closer in Nippon Professional Baseball and a longtime star for the Hanshin Tigers.
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B.
Ryo Okumoto
Ryo Okumoto is a Japanese-born keyboardist best known for his long-time role in the American progressive rock band Spock’s Beard.
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C.
Ryohei Yamanaka
Ryohei Yamanaka is a Japanese rugby union player, primarily a fly-half, who has represented Japan internationally and played professionally in the domestic Top League.
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D.
Mako Komuro
Mako Komuro is a former Japanese imperial family member and niece of Emperor Naruhito who left royal status upon marrying commoner Kei Komuro.
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E.
Mako Iwamatsu
Mako Iwamatsu was a Japanese-American actor and voice actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and roles in films like "The Sand Pebbles" and "Conan the Barbarian," as well as for voicing Iroh in "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
- 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: Yuji Okumoto Target entity description: Yuji Okumoto is a Japanese-American actor best known for his role as the antagonist Chozen Toguchi in "The Karate Kid Part II" and its continuation in the series "Cobra Kai."
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A.
Kyuji Fujikawa
Kyuji Fujikawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known as a dominant closer in Nippon Professional Baseball and a longtime star for the Hanshin Tigers.
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B.
Ryo Okumoto
Ryo Okumoto is a Japanese-born keyboardist best known for his long-time role in the American progressive rock band Spock’s Beard.
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C.
Ryohei Yamanaka
Ryohei Yamanaka is a Japanese rugby union player, primarily a fly-half, who has represented Japan internationally and played professionally in the domestic Top League.
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D.
Mako Komuro
Mako Komuro is a former Japanese imperial family member and niece of Emperor Naruhito who left royal status upon marrying commoner Kei Komuro.
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E.
Mako Iwamatsu
Mako Iwamatsu was a Japanese-American actor and voice actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and roles in films like "The Sand Pebbles" and "Conan the Barbarian," as well as for voicing Iroh in "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese-American person
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fictional character ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ restaurant ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Better Off Dead
NERFINISHED
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Cobra Kai NERFINISHED ⓘ Inception NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Tsunami NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ Real Genius NERFINISHED ⓘ The Karate Kid Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ True Believer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cobra Kai
NERFINISHED
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The Karate Kid Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessOwnerOf | Kona Kitchen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Chozen Toguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-04-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Okumoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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comedy ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Yuji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | daughter (name not widely publicized) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| location | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Yuji Okumoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Better Off Dead
NERFINISHED
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Cobra Kai NERFINISHED ⓘ Inception NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Tsunami NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ Real Genius NERFINISHED ⓘ The Karate Kid Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ True Believer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Chozen Toguchi in Cobra Kai
NERFINISHED
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Chozen Toguchi in The Karate Kid Part II ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Angela Okumoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Yuji Okumoto Description of subject: Yuji Okumoto is a Japanese-American actor best known for his role as the antagonist Chozen Toguchi in "The Karate Kid Part II" and its continuation in the series "Cobra Kai."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.