Masataka Matsutoya
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Masataka Matsutoya is a Japanese musician, arranger, and producer best known for his extensive work in pop music and collaborations with prominent artists, including his wife Yumi Matsutoya.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Masataka Matsutoya canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11733197 — 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: Masataka Matsutoya Context triple: [Masataka, hasNotableBearer, Masataka Matsutoya]
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A.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
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B.
Yoshio Nakamura
Yoshio Nakamura is a Japanese judoka and Olympic medalist known for his achievements in international judo competitions.
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C.
Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist best known for his pioneering discovery and characterization of carbon nanotubes, which revolutionized the field of nanotechnology.
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D.
Akira Nambu
Akira Nambu is a Japanese firearms designer best known for creating several influential military pistols and small arms used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the early 20th century.
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E.
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which revolutionized lighting and display technologies.
- 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: Masataka Matsutoya Target entity description: Masataka Matsutoya is a Japanese musician, arranger, and producer best known for his extensive work in pop music and collaborations with prominent artists, including his wife Yumi Matsutoya.
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A.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
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B.
Yoshio Nakamura
Yoshio Nakamura is a Japanese judoka and Olympic medalist known for his achievements in international judo competitions.
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C.
Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist best known for his pioneering discovery and characterization of carbon nanotubes, which revolutionized the field of nanotechnology.
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D.
Akira Nambu
Akira Nambu is a Japanese firearms designer best known for creating several influential military pistols and small arms used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the early 20th century.
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E.
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which revolutionized lighting and display technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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music arranger ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| basedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music arrangement
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music production ⓘ pop music ⓘ |
| genre |
Japanese pop
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pop music ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
Yumi Matsutoya
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various Japanese pop artists ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Masataka Matsutoya ⓘ |
| nativeName | 松任谷正隆 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with prominent Japanese artists
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extensive work in Japanese pop music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
arrangements for Yumi Matsutoya
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production work in Japanese pop music ⓘ |
| occupation |
music arranger
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| spouse | Yumi Matsutoya ⓘ |
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: Masataka Matsutoya Description of subject: Masataka Matsutoya is a Japanese musician, arranger, and producer best known for his extensive work in pop music and collaborations with prominent artists, including his wife Yumi Matsutoya.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.