Yukawa
E103773
Japanese surname
Nobel laureate in Physics
fundamental interaction model
human
physical potential
theoretical physicist
theory in particle physics
Yukawa is a Japanese surname most famously associated with theoretical physicist Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese Nobel laureate in Physics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yukawa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T713856 — 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: Yukawa Context triple: [Hideki Yukawa, familyName, Yukawa]
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A.
Yamamoto
Yamamoto is a Japanese surname most famously associated with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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B.
Matsubara
Matsubara is a suburban city in Japan’s Kansai region, located within Osaka Prefecture and forming part of the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Yokoi Shōnan
Yokoi Shōnan was a late Edo and early Meiji-era Japanese political thinker and reformist samurai known for advocating Western-style modernization and national strengthening.
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D.
Adachi
Adachi is a special ward in northern Tokyo, Japan, known as a primarily residential and industrial area along the Arakawa River.
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E.
Hitoshi Murayama
Hitoshi Murayama is a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work in particle physics and cosmology and for holding leading academic positions in both Japan and the United States.
- 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: Yukawa Target entity description: Yukawa is a Japanese surname most famously associated with theoretical physicist Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese Nobel laureate in Physics.
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A.
Yamamoto
Yamamoto is a Japanese surname most famously associated with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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B.
Matsubara
Matsubara is a suburban city in Japan’s Kansai region, located within Osaka Prefecture and forming part of the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Yokoi Shōnan
Yokoi Shōnan was a late Edo and early Meiji-era Japanese political thinker and reformist samurai known for advocating Western-style modernization and national strengthening.
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D.
Adachi
Adachi is a special ward in northern Tokyo, Japan, known as a primarily residential and industrial area along the Arakawa River.
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E.
Hitoshi Murayama
Hitoshi Murayama is a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work in particle physics and cosmology and for holding leading academic positions in both Japan and the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese surname
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Nobel laureate in Physics ⓘ fundamental interaction model ⓘ human ⓘ physical potential ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ theory in particle physics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
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Lomonosov Gold Medal ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Order of Culture (Japan) ⓘ
linked to:
Order of Culture
|
| category | Japanese-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-01-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-09-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Kyoto Imperial University
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linked to:
Kyoto University
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| employer |
Columbia University
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Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ Kyoto University ⓘ Osaka University ⓘ |
| familyName | Yukawa ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
nuclear physics
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particle physics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
particle physics
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theoretical physics ⓘ |
| givenName | Hideki ⓘ |
| hasDerivativeTerm |
Yukawa interaction
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linked to:
Yukawa coupling
Yukawa meson theory ⓘ Yukawa potential ⓘ |
| influenced | development of quantum field theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Yukawa potential
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meson theory of nuclear forces ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Hideki Yukawa
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Hideki Yukawa ⓘ Hideki Yukawa ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Hideki Yukawa ⓘ |
| notableWork | On the Interaction of Elementary Particles I ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Tokyo, Japan
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linked to:
Tokyo
|
| placeOfDeath |
Kyoto, Japan
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linked to:
Kyoto
|
| positionHeld |
professor at Columbia University
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professor at Kyoto University ⓘ professor at Osaka University ⓘ |
| usedIn | Japanese language ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kanji ⓘ |
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: Yukawa Description of subject: Yukawa is a Japanese surname most famously associated with theoretical physicist Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese Nobel laureate in Physics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Yukawa