Masataka Kōno (shogi player)
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Masataka Kōno is a professional Japanese shogi player known for competing in Japan’s official shogi ranking system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Masataka Kōno (shogi player) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11733228 — 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 Kōno (shogi player) Context triple: [Masataka, hasNotableBearer, Masataka Kōno (shogi player)]
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A.
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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B.
Tomonaga Masao
Tomonaga Masao is a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
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Kataoka Kenkichi
Kataoka Kenkichi was a prominent Japanese politician and activist associated with the Meiji-era Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, which sought constitutional government and civil liberties in Japan.
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D.
Kabayama Sukenori
Kabayama Sukenori was a Japanese naval officer and statesman of the Meiji era who became the first Japanese colonial administrator of Taiwan following its cession from Qing China.
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E.
Yohei Kono
Yohei Kono is a Japanese politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives who also served as foreign minister and is known for the 1993 “Kono Statement” acknowledging the Japanese military’s role in wartime comfort women.
- 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 Kōno (shogi player) Target entity description: Masataka Kōno is a professional Japanese shogi player known for competing in Japan’s official shogi ranking system.
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A.
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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B.
Tomonaga Masao
Tomonaga Masao is a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
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C.
Kataoka Kenkichi
Kataoka Kenkichi was a prominent Japanese politician and activist associated with the Meiji-era Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, which sought constitutional government and civil liberties in Japan.
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D.
Kabayama Sukenori
Kabayama Sukenori was a Japanese naval officer and statesman of the Meiji era who became the first Japanese colonial administrator of Taiwan following its cession from Qing China.
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E.
Yohei Kono
Yohei Kono is a Japanese politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives who also served as foreign minister and is known for the 1993 “Kono Statement” acknowledging the Japanese military’s role in wartime comfort women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
human
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professional shogi player ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | competing in Japan’s official shogi ranking system ⓘ |
| occupation | shogi player ⓘ |
| participatesIn | Japan Shogi Association professional ranking system ⓘ |
| sport | shogi ⓘ |
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 Kōno (shogi player) Description of subject: Masataka Kōno is a professional Japanese shogi player known for competing in Japan’s official shogi ranking system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.