Hiroyuki Sanada
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Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiroyuki Sanada canonical | 25 |
| 真田広之 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T499284 — 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: Hiroyuki Sanada Context triple: [The Railway Man, starring, Hiroyuki Sanada]
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A.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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B.
Itagaki Taisuke
Itagaki Taisuke was a leading 19th-century Japanese politician and liberal activist who championed constitutional government and civil rights during the Meiji era.
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C.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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D.
Mutaguchi Renya
Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
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E.
Kume Kunitake
Kume Kunitake was a Meiji-era Japanese scholar, historian, and statesman best known for documenting the Iwakura Mission’s journey and for his influential writings on 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: Hiroyuki Sanada Target entity description: Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
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A.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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B.
Itagaki Taisuke
Itagaki Taisuke was a leading 19th-century Japanese politician and liberal activist who championed constitutional government and civil rights during the Meiji era.
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C.
Harukichi
Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
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D.
Mutaguchi Renya
Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
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E.
Kume Kunitake
Kume Kunitake was a Meiji-era Japanese scholar, historian, and statesman best known for documenting the Iwakura Mission’s journey and for his influential writings on Japan’s modernization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Hiroyuki Sanada Description of subject: Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Speed Racer
linked to: Hiroyuki Sanada
subject linked to:
Mr. Holmes (2015 film)
subject linked to:
Scorpion / Hanzo Hasashi in Mortal Kombat (2021 film)
subject linked to:
Toru in Bullet Train (2022 film)
subject linked to:
Yoshii Toranaga in Shōgun (2024 miniseries)
subject linked to:
Life