Hirota Kōki
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Hirota Kōki was a pre-World War II Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister and later as foreign minister, playing a key role in Japan’s increasingly militaristic foreign policy during the 1930s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hirota Kōki canonical | 3 |
| Hirota Koki | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3224755 — 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: Hirota Kōki Context triple: [Okada Keisuke, successor (Prime Minister of Japan), Hirota Kōki]
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A.
Nobuteru Ishihara
Nobuteru Ishihara is a Japanese politician from the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in the House of Representatives and held cabinet positions including Minister of the Environment.
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B.
Inejiro Asanuma
Inejiro Asanuma was a prominent Japanese socialist politician and pacifist who led the Japan Socialist Party until his high-profile assassination in 1960.
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C.
Koiso Kuniaki
Koiso Kuniaki was a Japanese general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and played a key role in Japan’s wartime administration.
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D.
Noboru Takeshita
Noboru Takeshita was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister in the late 1980s and was a key power broker within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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E.
Eisaku
Eisaku is a Japanese masculine given name borne by several notable figures, including politicians and entertainers.
- 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: Hirota Kōki Target entity description: Hirota Kōki was a pre-World War II Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister and later as foreign minister, playing a key role in Japan’s increasingly militaristic foreign policy during the 1930s.
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A.
Nobuteru Ishihara
Nobuteru Ishihara is a Japanese politician from the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in the House of Representatives and held cabinet positions including Minister of the Environment.
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B.
Inejiro Asanuma
Inejiro Asanuma was a prominent Japanese socialist politician and pacifist who led the Japan Socialist Party until his high-profile assassination in 1960.
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C.
Koiso Kuniaki
Koiso Kuniaki was a Japanese general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and played a key role in Japan’s wartime administration.
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D.
Noboru Takeshita
Noboru Takeshita was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister in the late 1980s and was a key power broker within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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E.
Eisaku
Eisaku is a Japanese masculine given name borne by several notable figures, including politicians and entertainers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Foreign minister of Japan
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Japanese diplomat ⓘ Japanese politician ⓘ Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ human ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| diplomaticActivity | negotiated with the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| era |
Shōwa period
ⓘ
linked to:
Showa era
|
| familyName | Hirota ⓘ |
| foreignPolicyStance | supported assertive expansionist policies ⓘ |
| givenName | Kōki ⓘ |
| government |
Imperial Japanese government
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial Japan
|
| governmentalBranch | executive branch of the Empire of Japan ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Japanese expansionism in the 1930s ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Hirota Kōki ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 広田 弘毅 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of a prewar Japanese cabinet
ⓘ
pre-World War II diplomacy ⓘ |
| notableOfficePeriod | mid-1930s ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1937-02-02 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1936-03-09 ⓘ |
| playedRoleIn |
Japanese foreign policy in the 1930s
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Japan’s increasingly militaristic foreign policy before World War II ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | associated with militarist foreign policy ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Ambassador of Japan to the Soviet Union
ⓘ
Member of the House of Peers ⓘ Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ⓘ Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| predecessorAsPrimeMinister | Okada Keisuke ⓘ |
| preWorldWarIIFigure | true ⓘ |
| primeMinisterOf |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial Japan
|
| regionOfActivity |
East Asia
ⓘ
Tokyo ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | key architect of Japan’s foreign policy before World War II ⓘ |
| servedAs |
Foreign Minister of Japan in the 1930s
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Prime Minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937 ⓘ |
| successorAsPrimeMinister | Hayashi Senjūrō ⓘ |
| wasAmbassadorTo | Soviet Union ⓘ |
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: Hirota Kōki Description of subject: Hirota Kōki was a pre-World War II Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister and later as foreign minister, playing a key role in Japan’s increasingly militaristic foreign policy during the 1930s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hirota Kōki