Yasuo Matsui
E258582
Yasuo Matsui was a Japanese-American architect active in early 20th-century New York City, known for his work on prominent skyscrapers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yasuo Matsui canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1335782 — 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: Yasuo Matsui Context triple: [40 Wall Street, architect, Yasuo Matsui]
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A.
Hideki Matsui
Hideki Matsui is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger who became a star outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, most notably with the New York Yankees.
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B.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is an elite Japanese right-handed pitcher, renowned for his dominant performances in Nippon Professional Baseball and subsequent move to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Naoki Tanaka
Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
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D.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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E.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
- 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: Yasuo Matsui Target entity description: Yasuo Matsui was a Japanese-American architect active in early 20th-century New York City, known for his work on prominent skyscrapers.
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A.
Hideki Matsui
Hideki Matsui is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger who became a star outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, most notably with the New York Yankees.
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B.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is an elite Japanese right-handed pitcher, renowned for his dominant performances in Nippon Professional Baseball and subsequent move to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Naoki Tanaka
Naoki Tanaka is a Japanese politician and businessman known as the son of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and a member of the influential Tanaka political family.
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D.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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E.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese American
ⓘ
architect ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 20th century
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interwar period ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Japan
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
H. Craig Severance
ⓘ
Matsui & Bonomo ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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skyscraper design ⓘ |
| genre |
Art Deco architecture
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skyscraper architecture ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese-American ⓘ |
| notableFor | design and development of New York City skyscrapers ⓘ |
| notableProjectRole | consulting architect for Empire State Building ⓘ |
| notableWork |
40 Wall Street
ⓘ
70 Pine Street ⓘ Daily News Building ⓘ Empire State Building ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Japan ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| workLocation |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
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: Yasuo Matsui Description of subject: Yasuo Matsui was a Japanese-American architect active in early 20th-century New York City, known for his work on prominent skyscrapers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.