太朗
E179786
太朗 is a common Japanese male given name, typically conveying meanings associated with being a “big” or “eldest” son.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 太朗 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1575964 — 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: 太朗 Context triple: [Taro, kanjiVariant, 太朗]
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A.
南 次郎
南 次郎（Jirō Minami）は、日中戦争期に朝鮮総督などを務めた日本の陸軍軍人・政治家です。
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B.
Ma Xiaotian
Ma Xiaotian is a Chinese air force general who served as Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.
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C.
Li Yunhe
Li Yunhe is the birth name of Jiang Qing, the influential Chinese Communist political figure and wife of Mao Zedong who became a leading member of the Cultural Revolution’s Gang of Four.
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D.
朝永振一郎
朝永振一郎 was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
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E.
Jing Tian
Jing Tian is a Chinese actress known for her roles in both Chinese cinema and Hollywood blockbusters such as "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "The Great Wall."
- 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: 太朗 Target entity description: 太朗 is a common Japanese male given name, typically conveying meanings associated with being a “big” or “eldest” son.
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A.
南 次郎
南 次郎（Jirō Minami）は、日中戦争期に朝鮮総督などを務めた日本の陸軍軍人・政治家です。
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B.
Ma Xiaotian
Ma Xiaotian is a Chinese air force general who served as Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.
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C.
天神
天神 is a Japanese Shinto deity most commonly associated with scholarship and learning, often identified with the deified scholar Sugawara no Michizane.
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D.
Li Yunhe
Li Yunhe is the birth name of Jiang Qing, the influential Chinese Communist political figure and wife of Mao Zedong who became a leading member of the Cultural Revolution’s Gang of Four.
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E.
朝永振一郎
朝永振一郎 was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name
ⓘ
male given name ⓘ masculine Japanese given name ⓘ |
| canBeWrittenAs |
たろう
ⓘ
タロウ ⓘ 太郎 ⓘ |
| componentKanji |
太
ⓘ
朗 ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | common name for boys in Japanese culture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenNameOrder | follows family name in Japanese naming order ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| meaningAssociatedWith |
big
ⓘ
bright ⓘ cheerful ⓘ eldest son ⓘ |
| nameCategory | traditional Japanese male name ⓘ |
| nameElement | suffix 朗 often used in male names ⓘ |
| nameLengthInKanji | 2 ⓘ |
| popularityRegion | Japan ⓘ |
| romanization |
Taro
ⓘ
Tarō ⓘ |
| scriptVariant |
hiragana form たろう
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kanji form 太朗 ⓘ kanji form 太郎 ⓘ katakana form タロウ ⓘ |
| typicalUsage | given to first-born sons ⓘ |
| usedAs | personal name ⓘ |
| writingSystem | kanji ⓘ |
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: 太朗 Description of subject: 太朗 is a common Japanese male given name, typically conveying meanings associated with being a “big” or “eldest” son.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.