Seiji Togo
E485096
Seiji Togo was a prominent 20th-century Japanese painter known for his lyrical, modernist depictions of women and everyday life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seiji Togo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955032 — 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: Seiji Togo Context triple: [Sompo Museum of Art, namedAfter, Seiji Togo]
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A.
Wada Masakazu
Wada Masakazu was a Japanese architect best known for helping design Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
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B.
Toshihide
Toshihide is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Toshihide Maskawa.
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C.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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D.
Matsukata Masayoshi
Matsukata Masayoshi was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and economist who served multiple terms as prime minister and is best known for his deflationary "Matsukata Fiscal Policy" that stabilized Japan’s modern financial system.
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E.
Osami Nagano
Osami Nagano was a Japanese admiral who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff and was a key strategist behind Japan’s early World War II naval operations, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 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: Seiji Togo Target entity description: Seiji Togo was a prominent 20th-century Japanese painter known for his lyrical, modernist depictions of women and everyday life.
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A.
Wada Masakazu
Wada Masakazu was a Japanese architect best known for helping design Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
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B.
Toshihide
Toshihide is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Toshihide Maskawa.
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C.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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D.
Matsukata Masayoshi
Matsukata Masayoshi was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese statesman and economist who served multiple terms as prime minister and is best known for his deflationary "Matsukata Fiscal Policy" that stabilized Japan’s modern financial system.
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E.
Osami Nagano
Osami Nagano was a Japanese admiral who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff and was a key strategist behind Japan’s early World War II naval operations, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese painter
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human ⓘ modern artist ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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Shōwa period Japan ⓘ
linked to:
Showa era
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| artForm |
drawing
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illustration ⓘ oil painting ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
lyrical realism
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modernism ⓘ stylized figuration ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
20th-century Japanese art
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modern Japanese painting ⓘ |
| familyName | Togo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
illustration
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painting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
figurative art
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genre painting ⓘ portrait painting ⓘ |
| givenName | Seiji ⓘ |
| hasSubjectInArt |
elegant female figures
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everyday life ⓘ urban scenes ⓘ women ⓘ |
| influenced | postwar Japanese figurative painters ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
European modernism
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French painting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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Japanese ⓘ |
| movement |
lyrical figurative art
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modernism ⓘ |
| name | Seiji Togo ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 東郷青児 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
elegant female portraits
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lyrical depictions of women ⓘ modernist depictions of everyday life ⓘ |
| notableWork | images of women with elongated forms ⓘ |
| occupation |
illustrator
ⓘ
painter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Paris
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Tokyo ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Seiji Togo Description of subject: Seiji Togo was a prominent 20th-century Japanese painter known for his lyrical, modernist depictions of women and everyday life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo