Kafka Tamura
E1319657
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Kafka Tamura is a runaway teenage boy and one of the central, surrealism-tinged protagonists in Haruki Murakami’s novel "Kafka on the Shore."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kafka Tamura canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18351081 — 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: Kafka Tamura Context triple: [Kafka on the Shore, mainCharacter, Kafka Tamura]
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A.
Masayuki Kakefu
Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Yukio Kasaya
Yukio Kasaya is a Japanese former ski jumper best known for winning the gold medal in the normal hill event at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics.
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C.
Ryozo Tatami
Ryozo Tatami is a Japanese politician who serves as the mayor of the coastal city of Maizuru in Kyoto Prefecture.
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D.
Sawao Kato
Sawao Kato is a legendary Japanese artistic gymnast, renowned for winning multiple Olympic gold medals in the 1960s and 1970s and being considered one of the greatest male gymnasts in history.
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E.
Okamura Taro
Okamura Taro was a pioneering Japanese abstract artist and avant-garde cultural figure known for his bold, colorful works and influential writings on art and society.
- 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: Kafka Tamura Target entity description: Kafka Tamura is a runaway teenage boy and one of the central, surrealism-tinged protagonists in Haruki Murakami’s novel "Kafka on the Shore."
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A.
Masayuki Kakefu
Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Yukio Kasaya
Yukio Kasaya is a Japanese former ski jumper best known for winning the gold medal in the normal hill event at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics.
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C.
Ryozo Tatami
Ryozo Tatami is a Japanese politician who serves as the mayor of the coastal city of Maizuru in Kyoto Prefecture.
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D.
Sawao Kato
Sawao Kato is a legendary Japanese artistic gymnast, renowned for winning multiple Olympic gold medals in the 1960s and 1970s and being considered one of the greatest male gymnasts in history.
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E.
Okamura Taro
Okamura Taro was a pioneering Japanese abstract artist and avant-garde cultural figure known for his bold, colorful works and influential writings on art and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.