Kosuke Imai
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Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
All labels observed (1)
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| Kosuke Imai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T31019 — 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: Kosuke Imai Context triple: [Gary King, coAuthor, Kosuke Imai]
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
Tomoyuki Yamashita was a prominent Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II, best known for his rapid conquest of Malaya and Singapore and later defense of the Philippines.
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B.
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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Nobutake Kondō
Nobutake Kondō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played major command roles in key Pacific War engagements, including the Guadalcanal campaign and other operations alongside the main carrier forces.
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Hirakata
Hirakata is a city in Japan located between Osaka and Kyoto, known for its residential suburbs, historical sites, and the popular Hirakata Park amusement park.
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Mako Mori
Mako Mori is a skilled Jaeger pilot and central protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for her emotional depth, resilience, and pivotal role in humanity’s fight against the Kaiju.
- 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: Kosuke Imai Target entity description: Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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A.
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Tomoyuki Yamashita was a prominent Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II, best known for his rapid conquest of Malaya and Singapore and later defense of the Philippines.
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B.
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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C.
Nobutake Kondō
Nobutake Kondō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played major command roles in key Pacific War engagements, including the Guadalcanal campaign and other operations alongside the main carrier forces.
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D.
Hirakata
Hirakata is a city in Japan located between Osaka and Kyoto, known for its residential suburbs, historical sites, and the popular Hirakata Park amusement park.
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E.
Mako Mori
Mako Mori is a skilled Jaeger pilot and central protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for her emotional depth, resilience, and pivotal role in humanity’s fight against the Kaiju.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
person
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political scientist ⓘ statistician ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
causal inference
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computational social science ⓘ experimental design ⓘ political methodology ⓘ quantitative methods ⓘ social science ⓘ statistics ⓘ survey methodology ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
data science
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political science ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| hasRole |
doctoral advisor
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methodologist ⓘ teacher ⓘ university faculty member ⓘ |
| influences |
empirical research practices in political science
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methodological standards in social science research ⓘ |
| knownFor |
causal inference methods in political science
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research on causal mediation analysis ⓘ research on field experiments ⓘ research on mediation analysis ⓘ research on survey experiments ⓘ statistical methods for social science experiments ⓘ statistical software for causal inference ⓘ work on matching methods for causal inference ⓘ work on propensity score methods ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| notableContribution |
advancement of experimental design in political science
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development of statistical methods for causal inference in social sciences ⓘ integration of statistical theory with empirical political research ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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professor ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| publishesIn |
methodology journals
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political science journals ⓘ statistics journals ⓘ |
| researchArea |
computational methods for large-scale social data
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design and analysis of randomized experiments ⓘ measurement error in surveys ⓘ observational studies ⓘ program evaluation ⓘ public opinion research ⓘ |
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: Kosuke Imai Description of subject: Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.