Kenichi Matsuyama
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Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor best known internationally for his role as L in the "Death Note" film series and for his diverse performances in both mainstream and arthouse cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenichi Matsuyama canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2929214 — 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: Kenichi Matsuyama Context triple: [Norwegian Wood (2010 film), castMember, Kenichi Matsuyama]
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A.
Kazuyoshi Funaki
Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
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B.
Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro is a virtuoso American ukulele player and composer known for his innovative, genre-blending style and viral interpretations of popular songs.
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C.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
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D.
Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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E.
Yasuo Matsui
Yasuo Matsui was a Japanese-American architect active in early 20th-century New York City, known for his work on prominent skyscrapers.
- 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: Kenichi Matsuyama Target entity description: Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor best known internationally for his role as L in the "Death Note" film series and for his diverse performances in both mainstream and arthouse cinema.
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A.
Kazuyoshi Funaki
Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
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B.
Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro is a virtuoso American ukulele player and composer known for his innovative, genre-blending style and viral interpretations of popular songs.
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C.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
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D.
Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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E.
Min Tanaka
Min Tanaka is a renowned Japanese dancer and actor known for his avant-garde butoh performances and roles in international films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Kenichi Matsuyama Description of subject: Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor best known internationally for his role as L in the "Death Note" film series and for his diverse performances in both mainstream and arthouse cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Norwegian Wood