Toyomichi Kurita
E36637
Toyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films, including the 1995 drama "Waiting to Exhale."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toyomichi Kurita canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206056 — 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: Toyomichi Kurita Context triple: [Waiting to Exhale, cinematographyBy, Toyomichi Kurita]
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A.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese admiral who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor and led the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early years of World War II in the Pacific.
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B.
Chuichi Nagumo
Chuichi Nagumo was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy best known for leading the carrier strike force that launched the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
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C.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a Japanese general in World War II best known for his determined and innovative defense of Iwo Jima against U.S. forces.
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D.
Terauchi Masatake
Terauchi Masatake was a Japanese military officer and statesman who served as the first Governor-General of Korea and later as Prime Minister of Japan during the early 20th century.
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E.
Mitsuo Fuchida
Mitsuo Fuchida was a Japanese naval aviator and commander who led the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- 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: Toyomichi Kurita Target entity description: Toyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films, including the 1995 drama "Waiting to Exhale."
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A.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese admiral who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor and led the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early years of World War II in the Pacific.
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B.
Chuichi Nagumo
Chuichi Nagumo was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy best known for leading the carrier strike force that launched the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
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C.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a Japanese general in World War II best known for his determined and innovative defense of Iwo Jima against U.S. forces.
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D.
Terauchi Masatake
Terauchi Masatake was a Japanese military officer and statesman who served as the first Governor-General of Korea and later as Prime Minister of Japan during the early 20th century.
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E.
Mitsuo Fuchida
Mitsuo Fuchida was a Japanese naval aviator and commander who led the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasRole | director of photography ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| nameInNativeLanguage | 栗田 豊道 ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | work on major Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork | Waiting to Exhale ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Japan
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United States of America ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1995 ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem |
Japanese writing system
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Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| workedOn | Waiting to Exhale ⓘ |
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: Toyomichi Kurita Description of subject: Toyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films, including the 1995 drama "Waiting to Exhale."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.