Kambei Shimada
E1044243
Kambei Shimada is the wise, battle-hardened leader of the samurai group in Akira Kurosawa’s film "Seven Samurai," renowned as one of cinema’s most iconic warrior-mentors.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kambei Shimada canonical | 5 |
| Kambei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11605665 — 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: Kambei Shimada Context triple: [Chris Adams, basedOn, Kambei Shimada]
-
A.
Kabayama Sukenori
Kabayama Sukenori was a Japanese naval officer and statesman of the Meiji era who became the first Japanese colonial administrator of Taiwan following its cession from Qing China.
-
B.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
-
C.
Ōyama Tokugorō
Ōyama Tokugorō was a Japanese figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Ōyama family, related to influential Meiji-era statesman and field marshal Ōyama Iwao.
-
D.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
-
E.
Kenji Sōchō
Kenji Sōchō is the formal Japanese title used to refer to the Prosecutor-General, the highest-ranking official in Japan’s public prosecution system.
- 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: Kambei Shimada Target entity description: Kambei Shimada is the wise, battle-hardened leader of the samurai group in Akira Kurosawa’s film "Seven Samurai," renowned as one of cinema’s most iconic warrior-mentors.
-
A.
Kabayama Sukenori
Kabayama Sukenori was a Japanese naval officer and statesman of the Meiji era who became the first Japanese colonial administrator of Taiwan following its cession from Qing China.
-
B.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
-
C.
Ōyama Tokugorō
Ōyama Tokugorō was a Japanese figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Ōyama family, related to influential Meiji-era statesman and field marshal Ōyama Iwao.
-
D.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
-
E.
Kenji Sōchō
Kenji Sōchō is the formal Japanese title used to refer to the Prosecutor-General, the highest-ranking official in Japan’s public prosecution system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ samurai ⓘ |
| alignment | heroic ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Seven Samurai ⓘ |
| appearsInBlackAndWhiteFilm | true ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmDirectedBy | Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmReleasedIn | 1954 ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
battle-hardened
ⓘ
compassionate ⓘ self-sacrificing ⓘ strategic ⓘ wise ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst | bandits ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | samurai film ⓘ |
| filmProductionCompany | Toho ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Seven Samurai ⓘ |
| genre | jidaigeki ⓘ |
| hairStyle | shaved head ⓘ |
| hasMentorRelationshipWith | Katsushiro Okamoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later warrior-mentor characters in cinema ⓘ |
| isLeaderOf | team of ronin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
shaving his head to disguise himself as a monk
ⓘ
tactical planning in battle ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Japanese ⓘ |
| leads | group of seven samurai ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| moralCenterOf | Seven Samurai ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
mentor
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ warrior-mentor ⓘ |
| occupation | samurai ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Takashi Shimura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protects |
farmers
ⓘ
village under attack by bandits ⓘ |
| role | leader of the samurai group ⓘ |
| setting | Sengoku-period Japan ⓘ |
| teaches |
bushido values
ⓘ
tactics of village defense ⓘ |
| teamMember |
Gorobei Katayama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heihachi Hayashida NERFINISHED ⓘ Katsushiro Okamoto NERFINISHED ⓘ Kikuchiyo ⓘ Kyuzo ⓘ Shichiroji ⓘ
linked to:
Shichirōji
|
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: Kambei Shimada Description of subject: Kambei Shimada is the wise, battle-hardened leader of the samurai group in Akira Kurosawa’s film "Seven Samurai," renowned as one of cinema’s most iconic warrior-mentors.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai
subject linked to:
Northern Kam (North Dong)
linked to: Kambei Shimada