Yoko
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Yoko is a Japanese given name commonly used for women and borne by various notable figures in arts, literature, and entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yoko canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2510125 — 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: Yoko Context triple: [Yoko Tawada, givenName, Yoko]
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A.
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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B.
Toshiko Sato
Toshiko Sato is a brilliant and introverted technical expert and doctor in the British science-fiction series Torchwood, known for her skills in alien technology and her emotional depth.
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C.
Miyoko Fuchida
Miyoko Fuchida was the wife of Japanese naval aviator Mitsuo Fuchida, known for her support of him during and after World War II and his later Christian missionary work.
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D.
Ayako Wakao
Ayako Wakao is a renowned Japanese actress celebrated for her prolific film career from the 1950s onward, particularly in collaborations with director Yasuzō Masumura.
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E.
Yuriko Kikuchi
Yuriko Kikuchi, better known professionally as Rinko Kikuchi, is a Japanese actress acclaimed for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
- 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: Yoko Target entity description: Yoko is a Japanese given name commonly used for women and borne by various notable figures in arts, literature, and entertainment.
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A.
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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B.
Toshiko Sato
Toshiko Sato is a brilliant and introverted technical expert and doctor in the British science-fiction series Torchwood, known for her skills in alien technology and her emotional depth.
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C.
Miyoko Fuchida
Miyoko Fuchida was the wife of Japanese naval aviator Mitsuo Fuchida, known for her support of him during and after World War II and his later Christian missionary work.
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D.
Ayako Wakao
Ayako Wakao is a renowned Japanese actress celebrated for her prolific film career from the 1950s onward, particularly in collaborations with director Yasuzō Masumura.
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E.
Yuriko Kikuchi
Yuriko Kikuchi, better known professionally as Rinko Kikuchi, is a Japanese actress acclaimed for her roles in films such as "Babel" and "Pacific Rim."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese feminine given name
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given name ⓘ |
| commonKanjiComponent |
子
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洋 ⓘ 葉 ⓘ 陽 ⓘ |
| culturalUsage |
Japanese arts
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Japanese entertainment ⓘ Japanese literature ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | female ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Yoko Gushiken
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Yoko Kanno ⓘ Yoko Minamino ⓘ Yoko Ogawa ⓘ Yoko Ono ⓘ Yoko Shimomura ⓘ Yoko Taro ⓘ Yoko Tawada ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
Feminine given names
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Japanese feminine given names ⓘ |
| nameElement |
Ko
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Yo ⓘ |
| namePopularityRegion | East Asia ⓘ |
| suffixLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| suffixMeaning | child ⓘ |
| typicalNamePosition |
given name after family name in Japanese order
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given name before family name in Western order ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Hiragana
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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: Yoko Description of subject: Yoko is a Japanese given name commonly used for women and borne by various notable figures in arts, literature, and entertainment.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.