Shintaro
E201810
Shintaro is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in sports, entertainment, and politics.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1365380 — 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: Shintaro Context triple: [Shintaro Fujinami, givenName, Shintaro]
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A.
Yasuhiro
Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Masahito
Masahito is the personal name of Prince Hitachi, a member of the Japanese imperial family and younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito.
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C.
Akinobu
Akinobu is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by several notable individuals.
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D.
Seiji
Seiji is a Japanese given name most famously associated with the renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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E.
Masayuki
Masayuki is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
- 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: Shintaro Target entity description: Shintaro is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in sports, entertainment, and politics.
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A.
Yasuhiro
Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Masahito
Masahito is the personal name of Prince Hitachi, a member of the Japanese imperial family and younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito.
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C.
Akinobu
Akinobu is a Japanese masculine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations and is borne by several notable individuals.
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D.
Seiji
Seiji is a Japanese given name most famously associated with the renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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E.
Masayuki
Masayuki is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| belongsToNameCategory | Japanese masculine given names ⓘ |
| canHaveMultipleKanjiSpellings | true ⓘ |
| commonKanjiComponentMeaning |
first son (for the element Taro, depending on kanji)
ⓘ
new (for the element Shin, depending on kanji) ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese naming tradition ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | male ⓘ |
| hasNameElement |
Shin
ⓘ
Taro ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerExampleType |
actor
ⓘ
politician ⓘ professional athlete ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearersInField |
entertainment
ⓘ
politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Shintarou
ⓘ
linked to:
Shintaro
|
| isGivenTo | human males ⓘ |
| isPersonalName | true ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameCategory | given name ⓘ |
| nameOrderInJapanese | follows family name ⓘ |
| nameStructure | two-mora given name ⓘ |
| romanizedForm |
Shintarō
ⓘ
linked to:
Shintaro
|
| transliterationSystem | Hepburn romanization ⓘ |
| usageRegion | 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: Shintaro Description of subject: Shintaro is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in sports, entertainment, and politics.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.