Yōko Yaguchi
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Yōko Yaguchi was a Japanese actress best known for her work in the 1940s and for being married to renowned film director Akira Kurosawa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yōko Yaguchi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4245860 — 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: Yōko Yaguchi Context triple: [Akira Kurosawa, spouse, Yōko Yaguchi]
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A.
Yoshiko Morita
Yoshiko Morita is best known as the wife of Akio Morita, the co-founder of Sony Corporation.
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B.
Akiko Yoshida
Akiko Yoshida is an individual known primarily through her close personal association with Steve Smith.
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C.
Makiko Tanaka
Makiko Tanaka is a Japanese politician and former foreign minister, known as the outspoken daughter of influential former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
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D.
Yoshiko Satō
Yoshiko Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Satō.
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E.
Hisako Nagayama
Hisako Nagayama was the wife of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was a prominent military leader during World War II.
- 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: Yōko Yaguchi Target entity description: Yōko Yaguchi was a Japanese actress best known for her work in the 1940s and for being married to renowned film director Akira Kurosawa.
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A.
Yoshiko Morita
Yoshiko Morita is best known as the wife of Akio Morita, the co-founder of Sony Corporation.
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B.
Akiko Yoshida
Akiko Yoshida is an individual known primarily through her close personal association with Steve Smith.
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C.
Makiko Tanaka
Makiko Tanaka is a Japanese politician and former foreign minister, known as the outspoken daughter of influential former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
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D.
Yoshiko Satō
Yoshiko Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Satō.
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E.
Hisako Nagayama
Hisako Nagayama was the wife of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was a prominent military leader during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese actress
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| genre | film acting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Yōko Yaguchi ⓘ |
| nativeName | 八口洋子 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film roles in the 1940s
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marriage to film director Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| notableWorkPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | film director ⓘ |
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: Yōko Yaguchi Description of subject: Yōko Yaguchi was a Japanese actress best known for her work in the 1940s and for being married to renowned film director Akira Kurosawa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.