Katsuya
E217933
Katsuya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katsuya canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1475705 — 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: Katsuya Context triple: [Katsuya Nomura, givenName, Katsuya]
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A.
Shintaro
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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B.
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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C.
Masayuki
Masayuki is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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D.
Takanami
Takanami was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being sunk in the Battle of Tassafaronga in 1942.
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E.
Masahito
Masahito is the personal name of Prince Hitachi, a member of the Japanese imperial family and younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito.
- 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: Katsuya Target entity description: Katsuya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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A.
Shintaro
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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B.
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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C.
Masayuki
Masayuki is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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D.
Takanami
Takanami was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being sunk in the Battle of Tassafaronga in 1942.
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E.
Masahito
Masahito is the personal name of Prince Hitachi, a member of the Japanese imperial family and younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| canBeWrittenAs |
かつや
ⓘ
カツヤ ⓘ 克也 ⓘ 克哉 ⓘ 克弥 ⓘ
linked to:
Yuji
勝也 ⓘ 勝矢 ⓘ 勝谷 ⓘ |
| culturalContext | used in modern Japanese naming practices ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasNameDaySystem | no traditional Japanese name day system ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearers | yes ⓘ |
| isUnisex | no ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameCategory | personal name ⓘ |
| nameElementMeaning |
katsu can mean "to excel" or "to overcome" when written with the kanji 克
ⓘ
katsu can mean "victory" when written with the kanji 勝 ⓘ ya can function as a phonetic or stylistic suffix in given names ⓘ ya can mean "arrow" when written with the kanji 矢 ⓘ ya can mean "to be" or "also" when written with the kanji 也 ⓘ |
| nameStructure | typically composed of two kanji characters ⓘ |
| nameUsage | primarily used for males ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | written horizontally left-to-right or vertically top-to-bottom in Japanese texts ⓘ |
| 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: Katsuya Description of subject: Katsuya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.