Mari Yoriko Sabusawa
E242316
Mari Yoriko Sabusawa was a Japanese American editor, civic leader, and philanthropist known for her cultural and educational work and for her marriage to author James A. Michener.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mari Yoriko Sabusawa canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2188775 — 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: Mari Yoriko Sabusawa Context triple: [James A. Michener, spouse, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa]
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A.
Michiko Shōda
Michiko Shōda, later Empress Michiko, is the former Empress consort of Japan and the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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B.
Yoshiko Ikeda
Yoshiko Ikeda was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda and served as Japan’s First Lady during his tenure in the early 1960s.
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C.
Yumiko Fukushima
Yumiko Fukushima is a Japanese former television announcer best known as the wife of baseball star Ichiro Suzuki.
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D.
Reiko Yamamoto
Reiko Yamamoto was the wife of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the famed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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E.
Yoshiko Kishi
Yoshiko Kishi was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the matriarch of a prominent political family that includes former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
- 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: Mari Yoriko Sabusawa Target entity description: Mari Yoriko Sabusawa was a Japanese American editor, civic leader, and philanthropist known for her cultural and educational work and for her marriage to author James A. Michener.
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A.
Michiko Shōda
Michiko Shōda, later Empress Michiko, is the former Empress consort of Japan and the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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B.
Yoshiko Ikeda
Yoshiko Ikeda was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda and served as Japan’s First Lady during his tenure in the early 1960s.
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C.
Yumiko Fukushima
Yumiko Fukushima is a Japanese former television announcer best known as the wife of baseball star Ichiro Suzuki.
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D.
Reiko Yamamoto
Reiko Yamamoto was the wife of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the famed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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E.
Yoshiko Kishi
Yoshiko Kishi was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the matriarch of a prominent political family that includes former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic leader
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editor ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sabusawa ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civic engagement
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culture ⓘ education ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ |
| givenName | Mari ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Mari Yoriko Sabusawa ⓘ |
| notableFor |
civic leadership
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cultural work ⓘ educational work ⓘ marriage to James A. Michener ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ |
| occupation |
civic leader
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editor ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| partnerInWorkWith |
James A. Michener
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linked to:
James Michener
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| spouse |
James A. Michener
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linked to:
James Michener
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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: Mari Yoriko Sabusawa Description of subject: Mari Yoriko Sabusawa was a Japanese American editor, civic leader, and philanthropist known for her cultural and educational work and for her marriage to author James A. Michener.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.