Zeami Motokiyo
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Zeami Motokiyo was a seminal Japanese playwright, actor, and theorist who systematized and elevated Noh theatre into a refined classical art form.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zeami Motokiyo canonical | 4 |
| Zeami | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2591642 — 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: Zeami Motokiyo Context triple: [Muromachi period, notableTheatreFigure, Zeami Motokiyo]
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A.
Ō no Yasumaro
Ō no Yasumaro was an early 8th-century Japanese noble and scholar best known for compiling the Kojiki, one of Japan’s oldest extant chronicles of myths, legends, and early history.
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B.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku was a pioneering Japanese author of the Edo period, best known for his witty, realistic portrayals of urban merchant life and the pleasure quarters.
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D.
Yamabe no Akahito
Yamabe no Akahito was an early Nara-period Japanese court poet renowned for his elegant nature and landscape waka, many of which are preserved in the Man'yōshū anthology.
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E.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
- 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: Zeami Motokiyo Target entity description: Zeami Motokiyo was a seminal Japanese playwright, actor, and theorist who systematized and elevated Noh theatre into a refined classical art form.
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A.
Ō no Yasumaro
Ō no Yasumaro was an early 8th-century Japanese noble and scholar best known for compiling the Kojiki, one of Japan’s oldest extant chronicles of myths, legends, and early history.
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B.
Okamura Yasuji
Okamura Yasuji was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military campaigns in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku was a pioneering Japanese author of the Edo period, best known for his witty, realistic portrayals of urban merchant life and the pleasure quarters.
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D.
Yamabe no Akahito
Yamabe no Akahito was an early Nara-period Japanese court poet renowned for his elegant nature and landscape waka, many of which are preserved in the Man'yōshū anthology.
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E.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Zeami Motokiyo Description of subject: Zeami Motokiyo was a seminal Japanese playwright, actor, and theorist who systematized and elevated Noh theatre into a refined classical art form.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Zeami Motokiyo