Hideo Oguni
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Hideo Oguni was a prominent Japanese screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa on several classic films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hideo Oguni canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2308260 — 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: Hideo Oguni Context triple: [The Magnificent Seven (1960 film), basedOnWorkBy, Hideo Oguni]
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A.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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B.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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C.
Keiji Shibazaki
Keiji Shibazaki was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the island’s defenses and was killed during the World War II Battle of Tarawa.
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D.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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E.
Iwao Matsuda
Iwao Matsuda was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the Pacific campaigns.
- 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: Hideo Oguni Target entity description: Hideo Oguni was a prominent Japanese screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa on several classic films.
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A.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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B.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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C.
Keiji Shibazaki
Keiji Shibazaki was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the island’s defenses and was killed during the World War II Battle of Tarawa.
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D.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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E.
Iwao Matsuda
Iwao Matsuda was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the Pacific campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1904-07-09 ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1996-02-25 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ samurai film ⓘ |
| influenced | Japanese cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Hideo Oguni ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 小国英雄 ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaborations with Akira Kurosawa ⓘ |
| notableWork |
High and Low
ⓘ
Ikiru ⓘ Seven Samurai ⓘ The Hidden Fortress ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Japan ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Japan ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Eijirō Hisaita
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Ryūzō Kikushima ⓘ Shinobu Hashimoto ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Dodes'ka-den
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Drunken Angel ⓘ High and Low ⓘ I Live in Fear ⓘ Ikiru ⓘ No Regrets for Our Youth ⓘ Scandal ⓘ Seven Samurai ⓘ Stray Dog ⓘ The Bad Sleep Well ⓘ The Hidden Fortress ⓘ The Idiot ⓘ The Lower Depths ⓘ Throne of Blood ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hideo Oguni Description of subject: Hideo Oguni was a prominent Japanese screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa on several classic films.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Magnificent Seven
subject linked to:
Akira Kurosawa’s film Ran (1985), loosely based on King Lear