Kōjirō Matsukata
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Kōjirō Matsukata was a prominent early 20th-century Japanese industrialist and art collector whose extensive Western art collection became the foundation of Japan’s National Museum of Western Art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kōjirō Matsukata canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10062370 — 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: Kōjirō Matsukata Context triple: [National Museum of Western Art, founderOfCollection, Kōjirō Matsukata]
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Satō Norikiyo
Satō Norikiyo, better known by his monastic name Saigyō, was a prominent 12th-century Japanese poet and Buddhist monk celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature and impermanence.
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Yoshida Shigeru
Yoshida Shigeru was a prominent Japanese diplomat and postwar prime minister who played a key role in Japan’s recovery and alignment with the West after World War II.
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C.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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D.
Raizō Tanaka
Raizō Tanaka was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and destroyer squadron commander in World War II, renowned for his aggressive night-fighting tactics in the Solomon Islands campaign.
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E.
Matsudaira Takechiyo
Matsudaira Takechiyo was the childhood name of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the powerful daimyo who unified Japan and founded the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 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: Kōjirō Matsukata Target entity description: Kōjirō Matsukata was a prominent early 20th-century Japanese industrialist and art collector whose extensive Western art collection became the foundation of Japan’s National Museum of Western Art.
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A.
Satō Norikiyo
Satō Norikiyo, better known by his monastic name Saigyō, was a prominent 12th-century Japanese poet and Buddhist monk celebrated for his deeply reflective waka poetry on nature and impermanence.
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B.
Yoshida Shigeru
Yoshida Shigeru was a prominent Japanese diplomat and postwar prime minister who played a key role in Japan’s recovery and alignment with the West after World War II.
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C.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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D.
Raizō Tanaka
Raizō Tanaka was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and destroyer squadron commander in World War II, renowned for his aggressive night-fighting tactics in the Solomon Islands campaign.
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E.
Matsudaira Takechiyo
Matsudaira Takechiyo was the childhood name of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the powerful daimyo who unified Japan and founded the Tokugawa shogunate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.