Elaine Okamura
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Elaine Okamura is best known as the first wife of American singer and entertainer Wayne Newton, whom she married in the 1960s before their later divorce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elaine Okamura canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5787935 — 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: Elaine Okamura Context triple: [Wayne Newton, spouse, Elaine Okamura]
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A.
Lori Matsuoka
Lori Matsuoka is best known as the wife of Hall of Fame basketball player and sportscaster Bill Walton and for her involvement in charitable and philanthropic activities.
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B.
Irene Hirano
Irene Hirano was a prominent Japanese American civic leader and nonprofit executive, best known as the founding president of the Japanese American National Museum and for her work strengthening U.S.–Japan relations.
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C.
Susan Oyama
Susan Oyama is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist best known for her work in developmental systems theory and critiques of genetic determinism.
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D.
Florence T. Nakakuni
Florence T. Nakakuni is an American lawyer who served as the chief federal prosecutor for the District of Hawaii.
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E.
Reiko Yamamoto
Reiko Yamamoto was the wife of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the famed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy 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: Elaine Okamura Target entity description: Elaine Okamura is best known as the first wife of American singer and entertainer Wayne Newton, whom she married in the 1960s before their later divorce.
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A.
Lori Matsuoka
Lori Matsuoka is best known as the wife of Hall of Fame basketball player and sportscaster Bill Walton and for her involvement in charitable and philanthropic activities.
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B.
Irene Hirano
Irene Hirano was a prominent Japanese American civic leader and nonprofit executive, best known as the founding president of the Japanese American National Museum and for her work strengthening U.S.–Japan relations.
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C.
Susan Oyama
Susan Oyama is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist best known for her work in developmental systems theory and critiques of genetic determinism.
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D.
Florence T. Nakakuni
Florence T. Nakakuni is an American lawyer who served as the chief federal prosecutor for the District of Hawaii.
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E.
Reiko Yamamoto
Reiko Yamamoto was the wife of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the famed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
celebrity spouse
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entertainer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music
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traditional pop ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Wayne Newton ⓘ |
| notableWork | Danke Schoen ⓘ |
| occupation |
entertainer
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singer ⓘ unknown ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elaine Okamura
ⓘ
Wayne Newton ⓘ |
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: Elaine Okamura Description of subject: Elaine Okamura is best known as the first wife of American singer and entertainer Wayne Newton, whom she married in the 1960s before their later divorce.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.