Sōsuke Uno
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Sōsuke Uno was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who briefly served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1989 before resigning amid a financial and sex scandal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sōsuke Uno canonical | 3 |
| Sōsuke | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3544835 — 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: Sōsuke Uno Context triple: [Noboru Takeshita, succeededBy (as Prime Minister of Japan), Sōsuke Uno]
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A.
Saitō Makoto
Saitō Makoto was a Japanese admiral and statesman who served as Governor-General of Korea and later as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Shōwa period.
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B.
Kyuji Fujikawa
Kyuji Fujikawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known as a dominant closer in Nippon Professional Baseball and a longtime star for the Hanshin Tigers.
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C.
Makoto Uchida
Makoto Uchida is a Japanese automotive executive who serves as the chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co.
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D.
Shizuo
Shizuo is a Japanese masculine given name borne by several notable figures, including mathematicians and artists.
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E.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 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: Sōsuke Uno Target entity description: Sōsuke Uno was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who briefly served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1989 before resigning amid a financial and sex scandal.
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A.
Saitō Makoto
Saitō Makoto was a Japanese admiral and statesman who served as Governor-General of Korea and later as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Shōwa period.
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B.
Kyuji Fujikawa
Kyuji Fujikawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known as a dominant closer in Nippon Professional Baseball and a longtime star for the Hanshin Tigers.
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C.
Makoto Uchida
Makoto Uchida is a Japanese automotive executive who serves as the chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co.
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D.
Shizuo
Shizuo is a Japanese masculine given name borne by several notable figures, including mathematicians and artists.
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E.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese politician
ⓘ
Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-08-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1998-05-19 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1989-08-10 (as Prime Minister of Japan) ⓘ |
| era |
Heisei period
ⓘ
linked to:
Heisei
Shōwa period ⓘ
linked to:
Showa era
|
| familyName | Uno ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sōsuke
ⓘ
linked to:
Sōsuke Uno
|
| honorificPrefix | Mr. ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
ⓘ
linked to:
Liberal Democratic Party
|
| militaryService | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| name | Sōsuke Uno ⓘ |
| nativeName | 宇野宗佑 ⓘ |
| notableEvent | led LDP government during 1989 House of Councillors election defeat ⓘ |
| notableFor |
brief tenure as Prime Minister of Japan in 1989
ⓘ
resignation following financial and sex scandal ⓘ |
| occupation |
bureaucrat
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 75th Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| parliamentaryHouse | House of Representatives of Japan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
|
| placeOfDeath |
Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
|
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Minister of Defense of Japan
Member of the House of Representatives of Japan ⓘ Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ⓘ Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| precededBy | Noboru Takeshita ⓘ |
| reasonForEndOfTerm |
resignation amid financial scandal
ⓘ
resignation amid sex scandal ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism (commonly associated, not definitively documented) ⓘ |
| residence |
Shiga Prefecture, Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Shiga Prefecture
|
| resignedFromPosition | Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| scandalInvolved |
financial scandal involving political funds
ⓘ
sex scandal involving a geisha’s allegations ⓘ |
| spouse | Uno’s wife (name not widely publicized internationally) ⓘ |
| startTime | 1989-06-03 (as Prime Minister of Japan) ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Toshiki Kaifu ⓘ |
| termLengthAsPrimeMinister | approximately two months ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sōsuke Uno Description of subject: Sōsuke Uno was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who briefly served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1989 before resigning amid a financial and sex scandal.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sōsuke Uno