Kitasato
E243464
Kitasato is a Japanese surname most notably associated with pioneering bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kitasato canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2150945 — 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: Kitasato Context triple: [Shibasaburo Kitasato, familyName, Kitasato]
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A.
Tanaka
Tanaka is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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B.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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C.
Satō
Satō is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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D.
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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E.
Nishiwaki
Nishiwaki is a city in central Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its location near the geographic center of the country and its mix of industrial and rural landscapes.
- 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: Kitasato Target entity description: Kitasato is a Japanese surname most notably associated with pioneering bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato.
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A.
Tanaka
Tanaka is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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B.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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C.
Satō
Satō is a common Japanese surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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D.
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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E.
Nishiwaki
Nishiwaki is a city in central Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its location near the geographic center of the country and its mix of industrial and rural landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese surname
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human ⓘ medical research institute ⓘ private university ⓘ |
| coDiscovererWith | Alexandre Yersin ⓘ |
| country |
Japan
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Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| discovered | bacterium causing bubonic plague ⓘ |
| familyName | Kitasato ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | bacteriology ⓘ |
| founded | Kitasato Institute ⓘ |
| givenName | Shibasaburo ⓘ |
| hasDerivedInstitutionName |
Kitasato Institute
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Kitasato University ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Shibasaburo Kitasato
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Shibasaburo Kitasato ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Shibasaburo Kitasato ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-discovery of the infectious agent of bubonic plague
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research on diphtheria ⓘ research on tetanus ⓘ |
| occupation | bacteriologist ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Kitasato Institute ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| writtenIn | 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: Kitasato Description of subject: Kitasato is a Japanese surname most notably associated with pioneering bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kitasato