Fumiko Shōda
E484811
Fumiko Shōda was a Japanese woman best known as the mother of Michiko Shōda, who became Empress Michiko of Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fumiko Shōda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4824335 — 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: Fumiko Shōda Context triple: [Michiko Shōda, mother, Fumiko Shōda]
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A.
Michiko Shōda
Michiko Shōda, later Empress Michiko, is the former Empress consort of Japan and the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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B.
Yoshiko Ikeda
Yoshiko Ikeda was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda and served as Japan’s First Lady during his tenure in the early 1960s.
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C.
Nishimura Takeko
Nishimura Takeko was a Japanese woman best known as the mother of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, a member of the Imperial Family during the early 20th century.
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D.
Fumiko Homma
Fumiko Homma was the wife of Japanese General Masaharu Homma, who commanded Imperial Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.
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E.
Nakayama Yoshiko
Nakayama Yoshiko was a Japanese noblewoman best known as the mother of Emperor Meiji, who played a pivotal role in Japan’s modernization.
- 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: Fumiko Shōda Target entity description: Fumiko Shōda was a Japanese woman best known as the mother of Michiko Shōda, who became Empress Michiko of Japan.
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A.
Michiko Shōda
Michiko Shōda, later Empress Michiko, is the former Empress consort of Japan and the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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B.
Yoshiko Ikeda
Yoshiko Ikeda was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda and served as Japan’s First Lady during his tenure in the early 1960s.
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C.
Nishimura Takeko
Nishimura Takeko was a Japanese woman best known as the mother of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, a member of the Imperial Family during the early 20th century.
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D.
Fumiko Homma
Fumiko Homma was the wife of Japanese General Masaharu Homma, who commanded Imperial Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.
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E.
Nakayama Yoshiko
Nakayama Yoshiko was a Japanese noblewoman best known as the mother of Emperor Meiji, who played a pivotal role in Japan’s modernization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Japanese person
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human ⓘ |
| child |
Empress Michiko of Japan
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linked to:
Empress Michiko
Michiko Shōda ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese language ⓘ |
| name | Fumiko Shōda ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Empress Michiko of Japan ⓘ |
| residence | Japan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Fumiko Shōda Description of subject: Fumiko Shōda was a Japanese woman best known as the mother of Michiko Shōda, who became Empress Michiko of Japan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.