Mariko Ohsumi
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Mariko Ohsumi is the wife of Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mariko Ohsumi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11165354 — 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: Mariko Ohsumi Context triple: [Yoshinori Ohsumi, spouse, Mariko Ohsumi]
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A.
Makiko Ohmoto
Makiko Ohmoto is a Japanese voice actress best known for voicing Kirby in the long-running Kirby video game and anime franchise.
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B.
Yoshie Nakamura
Yoshie Nakamura is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Nakamura surname.
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C.
Tomoko Ohta
Tomoko Ohta is a Japanese molecular evolutionary biologist best known for proposing the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution, which refined and extended Motoo Kimura’s neutral theory.
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D.
Tatsuko Kawashima
Tatsuko Kawashima is the maternal grandmother of Prince Hisahito of Akishino and a member of the extended Japanese imperial family through her daughter, Princess Kiko.
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E.
Kazuko Hosoki
Kazuko Hosoki was a popular Japanese fortune-teller, television personality, and author known for her outspoken character and influential books on astrology and divination.
- 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: Mariko Ohsumi Target entity description: Mariko Ohsumi is the wife of Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi.
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A.
Makiko Ohmoto
Makiko Ohmoto is a Japanese voice actress best known for voicing Kirby in the long-running Kirby video game and anime franchise.
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B.
Yoshie Nakamura
Yoshie Nakamura is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Nakamura surname.
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C.
Tomoko Ohta
Tomoko Ohta is a Japanese molecular evolutionary biologist best known for proposing the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution, which refined and extended Motoo Kimura’s neutral theory.
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D.
Tatsuko Kawashima
Tatsuko Kawashima is the maternal grandmother of Prince Hisahito of Akishino and a member of the extended Japanese imperial family through her daughter, Princess Kiko.
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E.
Kazuko Hosoki
Kazuko Hosoki was a popular Japanese fortune-teller, television personality, and author known for her outspoken character and influential books on astrology and divination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese person
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mariko Ohsumi
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Yoshinori Ohsumi ⓘ |
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: Mariko Ohsumi Description of subject: Mariko Ohsumi is the wife of Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mariko Ohsumi