Kazuko
E142931
Kazuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women, including members of the imperial family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kazuko canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T937998 — 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: Kazuko Context triple: [Princess Kazuko, givenName, Kazuko]
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A.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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B.
Yuriko
Yuriko is the given name of Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, known for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Toshiko Sato
Toshiko Sato is a brilliant and introverted technical expert and doctor in the British science-fiction series Torchwood, known for her skills in alien technology and her emotional depth.
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D.
Chikako Shimazu
Chikako Shimazu was a Japanese noblewoman of the influential Shimazu family and the mother of Empress Kōjun, consort of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).
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E.
Michiko
Michiko is the former Empress of Japan and the wife of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, known for being the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
- 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: Kazuko Target entity description: Kazuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women, including members of the imperial family.
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A.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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B.
Yuriko
Yuriko is the given name of Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, known for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Toshiko Sato
Toshiko Sato is a brilliant and introverted technical expert and doctor in the British science-fiction series Torchwood, known for her skills in alien technology and her emotional depth.
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D.
Chikako Shimazu
Chikako Shimazu was a Japanese noblewoman of the influential Shimazu family and the mother of Empress Kōjun, consort of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).
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E.
Michiko
Michiko is the former Empress of Japan and the wife of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, known for being the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| canBeRomanizedAs | Kazuko ⓘ |
| category |
Feminine given names
ⓘ
Japanese feminine given names ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese naming tradition ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasNameDay | no widely recognized name day in Japan ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Kazuko Hosoki
ⓘ
Kazuko Shiraishi ⓘ Kazuko Takatsukasa ⓘ Princess Kazuko, Princess Taka ⓘ
linked to:
Princess Kazuko
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| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameElement |
kazu
ⓘ
ko ⓘ |
| nameOrder | given name used after family name in Japanese ⓘ |
| scriptVariant |
一子
ⓘ
和久子 ⓘ 和子 ⓘ 数子 ⓘ |
| suffixMeaning | "ko" means "child" in Japanese given names ⓘ |
| typicalBearerGender | female ⓘ |
| usedBy | members of the Japanese imperial family ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
hiragana
ⓘ
kanji ⓘ katakana ⓘ |
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: Kazuko Description of subject: Kazuko is a Japanese feminine given name commonly borne by women, including members of the imperial family.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.