堀越 二郎
E529613
堀越 二郎 was a Japanese aerospace engineer best known as the chief designer of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft used by Japan during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 堀越 二郎 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5516737 — 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: 堀越 二郎 Context triple: [Jiro Horikoshi, nativeName, 堀越 二郎]
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A.
嶋田繁太郎
嶋田繁太郎 was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who served as Navy Minister during World War II and played a key role in Japan’s wartime naval policy.
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B.
畑 俊六
畑俊六 was a Japanese general who served as the last Army Minister of the Empire of Japan during World War II.
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C.
山口那津男
山口那津男 is a Japanese politician who serves as the longtime leader of the Komeito party and has played a key role in Japan’s ruling coalition governments.
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D.
吉田 茂
吉田 茂は、戦後日本の復興と独立回復を主導し、サンフランシスコ講和条約の締結などで知られる日本の政治家・第45・48–51代内閣総理大臣です。
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E.
宮本 茂
宮本 茂 is a legendary Japanese video game designer and producer at Nintendo, best known as the creator of iconic franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong.
- 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: 堀越 二郎 Target entity description: 堀越 二郎 was a Japanese aerospace engineer best known as the chief designer of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft used by Japan during World War II.
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A.
嶋田繁太郎
嶋田繁太郎 was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who served as Navy Minister during World War II and played a key role in Japan’s wartime naval policy.
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B.
畑 俊六
畑俊六 was a Japanese general who served as the last Army Minister of the Empire of Japan during World War II.
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C.
山口那津男
山口那津男 is a Japanese politician who serves as the longtime leader of the Komeito party and has played a key role in Japan’s ruling coalition governments.
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D.
吉田 茂
吉田 茂は、戦後日本の復興と独立回復を主導し、サンフランシスコ講和条約の締結などで知られる日本の政治家・第45・48–51代内閣総理大臣です。
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E.
宮本 茂
宮本 茂 is a legendary Japanese video game designer and producer at Nintendo, best known as the creator of iconic franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
人間
ⓘ
航空宇宙工学者 ⓘ 航空機設計者 ⓘ |
| almaMater | 東京帝国大学 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | 勲三等瑞宝章 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1903-06-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
日本
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
群馬県藤岡市 ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | 零戦の高性能設計 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1982-01-11 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | 日本 ⓘ |
| designed |
三菱 A5M 艦上戦闘機
ⓘ
三菱 A6M 零式艦上戦闘機 ⓘ
linked to:
Mitsubishi A6M
三菱 A7M 烈風 ⓘ
linked to:
Mitsubishi A7M Reppū
三菱 J2M 雷電 ⓘ
linked to:
Mitsubishi J2M
|
| educatedAt |
東京帝国大学工学部
ⓘ
linked to:
東京帝国大学
|
| employedIn | 第二次世界大戦期の日本軍用機開発 ⓘ |
| employer |
三菱内燃機製造
ⓘ
三菱重工業 ⓘ |
| era | 昭和時代 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
航空工学
ⓘ
航空機設計 ⓘ |
| gender | 男性 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | 軍用航空機設計 ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | 日本の戦前・戦中の航空技術発展 ⓘ |
| hasPartInFiction | 宮崎駿監督映画『風立ちぬ』の主人公のモデル ⓘ |
| influencedBy | 当時の欧米航空機技術 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
三菱 A6M 零式艦上戦闘機の主任設計者
ⓘ
日本海軍航空機の設計 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | 日本語 ⓘ |
| memberOf | 三菱の航空機設計チーム ⓘ |
| name |
Jiro Horikoshi
ⓘ
ほりこし じろう ⓘ 堀越 二郎 ⓘ |
| nationality | 日本 ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | 日本語 ⓘ |
| notableWork | 零戦の設計 ⓘ |
| occupation |
技術者
ⓘ
航空技術者 ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 日本海軍航空機開発計画 ⓘ |
| residence |
日本
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| studentOf | 東京帝国大学の航空工学教授陣 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
名古屋市
ⓘ
linked to:
Nagoya
日本 ⓘ |
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: 堀越 二郎 Description of subject: 堀越 二郎 was a Japanese aerospace engineer best known as the chief designer of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft used by Japan during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.