Akira
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Akira is a common Japanese given name used for people of any gender and borne by many notable figures in fields such as science, arts, and entertainment.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Akira canonical | 14 |
| Akira (2016 film) | 1 |
| Akira (English-language edition) | 1 |
| Akira (manga and film) | 1 |
| アキラ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3351783 — 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: Akira Context triple: [Akira Suzuki, givenName, Akira]
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A.
Tetsuo & Youth
Tetsuo & Youth is a critically acclaimed studio album by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, noted for its complex lyricism, conceptual structure, and experimental production.
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B.
Tokusuke
Tokusuke is the given name of Nakae Chōmin, a prominent Japanese political theorist, journalist, and early advocate of liberal democracy in the Meiji era.
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C.
47 Ronin
47 Ronin is a 2013 fantasy action film loosely inspired by the Japanese legend of the forty-seven rōnin, blending samurai drama with supernatural elements.
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D.
Kita Iwo Jima
Kita Iwo Jima is a remote, uninhabited volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean that forms part of Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago.
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E.
Spirited Away
Spirited Away is a critically acclaimed Japanese animated fantasy film by Hayao Miyazaki that follows a young girl trapped in a mysterious spirit world, renowned for its imaginative world-building and emotional depth.
- 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: Akira Target entity description: Akira is a common Japanese given name used for people of any gender and borne by many notable figures in fields such as science, arts, and entertainment.
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A.
Tetsuo & Youth
Tetsuo & Youth is a critically acclaimed studio album by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, noted for its complex lyricism, conceptual structure, and experimental production.
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B.
Tokusuke
Tokusuke is the given name of Nakae Chōmin, a prominent Japanese political theorist, journalist, and early advocate of liberal democracy in the Meiji era.
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C.
47 Ronin
47 Ronin is a 2013 fantasy action film loosely inspired by the Japanese legend of the forty-seven rōnin, blending samurai drama with supernatural elements.
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D.
Kita Iwo Jima
Kita Iwo Jima is a remote, uninhabited volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean that forms part of Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago.
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E.
Spirited Away
Spirited Away is a critically acclaimed Japanese animated fantasy film by Hayao Miyazaki that follows a young girl trapped in a mysterious spirit world, renowned for its imaginative world-building and emotional depth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name
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given name ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | kanji-based name ⓘ |
| gender | unisex name ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Japanese culture ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerInField |
arts
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entertainment ⓘ science ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
あきら
ⓘ
アキラ ⓘ
linked to:
Akira
|
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| meaning |
bright
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clear ⓘ intelligent ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
Japanese feminine given names
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Japanese masculine given names ⓘ unisex Japanese given names ⓘ |
| region | Japan ⓘ |
| script | Japanese script ⓘ |
| usedFor |
female given name
ⓘ
male given name ⓘ non-binary given name ⓘ |
| 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: Akira Description of subject: Akira is a common Japanese given name used for people of any gender and borne by many notable figures in fields such as science, arts, and entertainment.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Akira
linked to: Akira
linked to: Akira
linked to: Akira