Nogi Shizuko
E951786
Nogi Shizuko was the wife of Japanese general Nogi Maresuke, remembered for her loyalty and for committing ritual suicide alongside him following Emperor Meiji’s death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nogi Shizuko canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11812923 — 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: Nogi Shizuko Context triple: [Nogi Shrine, dedicatedTo, Nogi Shizuko]
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A.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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B.
Yoshiko
Yoshiko is a feminine Japanese given name commonly used across various generations and often associated with traditional Japanese culture.
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C.
Sachiko
Sachiko is a Japanese feminine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations, often conveying meanings related to happiness or child.
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D.
Totsuko
Totsuko is the former abbreviated name of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, the Japanese company that later became Sony.
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E.
Toshiko Soma
Toshiko Soma was the Japanese wife of Indian revolutionary Rashbehari Bose, known for supporting his anti-colonial activities while he lived in Japan.
- 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: Nogi Shizuko Target entity description: Nogi Shizuko was the wife of Japanese general Nogi Maresuke, remembered for her loyalty and for committing ritual suicide alongside him following Emperor Meiji’s death.
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A.
Shigeko
Shigeko is a Japanese feminine given name that has been borne by various notable women, including members of the imperial family.
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B.
Yoshiko
Yoshiko is a feminine Japanese given name commonly used across various generations and often associated with traditional Japanese culture.
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C.
Sachiko
Sachiko is a Japanese feminine given name that can be written with various kanji combinations, often conveying meanings related to happiness or child.
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D.
Totsuko
Totsuko is the former abbreviated name of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, the Japanese company that later became Sony.
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E.
Toshiko Soma
Toshiko Soma was the Japanese wife of Indian revolutionary Rashbehari Bose, known for supporting his anti-colonial activities while he lived in Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese person
ⓘ
human ⓘ samurai wife ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Emperor Meiji
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Imperial Japanese Army general Nogi Maresuke ⓘ Nogi family ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Aoyama Cemetery
ⓘ
linked to:
Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo
|
| buriedWith | Nogi Maresuke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | ritual suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalRole | ideal of loyal samurai wife in modern Japanese memory ⓘ |
| deathEvent | joint suicide with Nogi Maresuke on the day of Emperor Meiji’s funeral ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| loyaltyTo |
Emperor Meiji
ⓘ
Nogi Maresuke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Nogi Maresuke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Nogi Shizuko ⓘ |
| nativeName | 乃木 静子 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
committing ritual suicide with her husband Nogi Maresuke
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loyalty to her husband Nogi Maresuke ⓘ suicide following the death of Emperor Meiji ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| residence | Tokyo ⓘ |
| socialStatus | wife of a kazoku (peerage) family head ⓘ |
| spouse | Nogi Maresuke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Imperial Japanese Army general
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governor-general of Taiwan ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Meiji era ⓘ |
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: Nogi Shizuko Description of subject: Nogi Shizuko was the wife of Japanese general Nogi Maresuke, remembered for her loyalty and for committing ritual suicide alongside him following Emperor Meiji’s death.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.