Matsuo Bashō
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Matsuo Bashō was a renowned Japanese poet celebrated as the master of haiku and a central figure in early modern Japanese literature.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matsuo Bashō canonical | 16 |
| Bashō | 2 |
| 松尾芭蕉 | 2 |
| Matsuo Basho | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T694896 — 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: Matsuo Bashō Context triple: [Edo period, notableWriter, Matsuo Bashō]
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A.
Saigyō
Saigyō was a renowned late Heian and early Kamakura period Japanese Buddhist monk and poet celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature, impermanence, and spiritual longing.
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B.
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese noblewoman and writer best known as the author of *The Tale of Genji*, often considered the world’s first novel.
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C.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
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D.
Sei Shōnagon
Sei Shōnagon was a Japanese court lady and writer best known for her witty and observant miscellany "The Pillow Book," a classic of Heian-era literature.
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E.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 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: Matsuo Bashō Target entity description: Matsuo Bashō was a renowned Japanese poet celebrated as the master of haiku and a central figure in early modern Japanese literature.
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A.
Saigyō
Saigyō was a renowned late Heian and early Kamakura period Japanese Buddhist monk and poet celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature, impermanence, and spiritual longing.
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B.
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese noblewoman and writer best known as the author of *The Tale of Genji*, often considered the world’s first novel.
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C.
Isogai Rensuke
Isogai Rensuke was an Imperial Japanese Army general who commanded forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including at major engagements such as the Battle of Taierzhuang.
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D.
Sei Shōnagon
Sei Shōnagon was a Japanese court lady and writer best known for her witty and observant miscellany "The Pillow Book," a classic of Heian-era literature.
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E.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Matsuo Bashō Description of subject: Matsuo Bashō was a renowned Japanese poet celebrated as the master of haiku and a central figure in early modern Japanese literature.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
松尾芭蕉
this entity surface form:
Bashō
this entity surface form:
Matsuo Basho