Yasuhisa Toyota
E135219
Yasuhisa Toyota is a renowned Japanese acoustician celebrated for designing the sound of many of the world’s leading concert halls and performing arts venues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yasuhisa Toyota canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1181901 — 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: Yasuhisa Toyota Context triple: [Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, acousticDesigner, Yasuhisa Toyota]
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A.
Soemu Toyoda
Soemu Toyoda was a high-ranking admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the later stages of World War II.
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B.
Masataka Yoshida
Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Hisashi Owada
Hisashi Owada is a Japanese diplomat and jurist who served as a judge and president of the International Court of Justice.
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D.
Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda was a pioneering Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who built Honda from a small workshop into one of the world’s leading automobile and motorcycle manufacturers.
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E.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
- 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: Yasuhisa Toyota Target entity description: Yasuhisa Toyota is a renowned Japanese acoustician celebrated for designing the sound of many of the world’s leading concert halls and performing arts venues.
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A.
Soemu Toyoda
Soemu Toyoda was a high-ranking admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the later stages of World War II.
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B.
Masataka Yoshida
Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Hisashi Owada
Hisashi Owada is a Japanese diplomat and jurist who served as a judge and president of the International Court of Justice.
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D.
Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda was a pioneering Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who built Honda from a small workshop into one of the world’s leading automobile and motorcycle manufacturers.
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E.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
acoustician
ⓘ
audio engineer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | concert hall design in the 21st century ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ⓘ |
| basedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Frank Gehry
ⓘ
Herzog & de Meuron ⓘ Jean Nouvel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer | Nagata Acoustics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architectural acoustics
ⓘ
concert hall acoustics ⓘ room acoustics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasClient |
Los Angeles Philharmonic
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra ⓘ
linked to:
NDR Symphony Orchestra
Orchestre de Paris ⓘ various international symphony orchestras ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary concert hall acoustics worldwide ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high clarity and intimacy of orchestral sound
ⓘ
vineyard-style concert hall designs ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Yasuhisa Toyota ⓘ |
| nativeName | 豊田泰久 ⓘ |
| notableFor | designing acoustics of major concert halls worldwide ⓘ |
| notableProjectType |
concert hall
ⓘ
opera house ⓘ performing arts center ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Elbphilharmonie
ⓘ
linked to:
Elbphilharmonie concert hall
Helsinki Music Centre ⓘ Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts ⓘ New World Center (Miami) ⓘ
linked to:
New World Center
Philharmonie de Paris ⓘ Shanghai Symphony Hall ⓘ Suntory Hall ⓘ Taichung National Theater ⓘ
linked to:
Taichung Metropolitan Opera House
Walt Disney Concert Hall ⓘ |
| occupation |
acoustician
ⓘ
sound designer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Nagata Acoustics ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
Tokyo ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yasuhisa Toyota Description of subject: Yasuhisa Toyota is a renowned Japanese acoustician celebrated for designing the sound of many of the world’s leading concert halls and performing arts venues.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.