Dragon Ball Z
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Dragon Ball Z is a hugely influential Japanese anime series that follows Goku and his allies as they defend Earth from increasingly powerful foes, helping popularize anime worldwide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dragon Ball (franchise) | 1 |
| Dragon Ball Z canonical | 1 |
| Dragon Ball Z (Ocean dub) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4506116 — 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: Dragon Ball Z Context triple: [Toonami, notableShowAired, Dragon Ball Z]
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A.
Daijosai
Daijosai is a grand Shinto ritual performed once in a Japanese emperor’s reign to celebrate his enthronement and offer newly harvested rice to the deities.
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B.
Namba Grand Kagetsu
Namba Grand Kagetsu is a famous comedy theater in Osaka, Japan, known as a central venue for Yoshimoto Kogyo’s manzai and variety performances.
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C.
Attack!
Attack! is a 1956 American World War II drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, noted for its intense portrayal of battlefield cowardice and moral conflict within a U.S. Army unit.
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D.
Ninja
Ninja is a fast, small, and focused build system designed to efficiently handle incremental builds in large software projects.
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E.
Baki
Baki was a prominent 16th-century Ottoman Turkish poet renowned for his refined ghazals and mastery of classical divan literature.
- 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: Dragon Ball Z Target entity description: Dragon Ball Z is a hugely influential Japanese anime series that follows Goku and his allies as they defend Earth from increasingly powerful foes, helping popularize anime worldwide.
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A.
Daijosai
Daijosai is a grand Shinto ritual performed once in a Japanese emperor’s reign to celebrate his enthronement and offer newly harvested rice to the deities.
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B.
Namba Grand Kagetsu
Namba Grand Kagetsu is a famous comedy theater in Osaka, Japan, known as a central venue for Yoshimoto Kogyo’s manzai and variety performances.
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C.
Attack!
Attack! is a 1956 American World War II drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, noted for its intense portrayal of battlefield cowardice and moral conflict within a U.S. Army unit.
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D.
Ninja
Ninja is a fast, small, and focused build system designed to efficiently handle incremental builds in large software projects.
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E.
Baki
Baki was a prominent 16th-century Ottoman Turkish poet renowned for his refined ghazals and mastery of classical divan literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese anime television series
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shōnen anime ⓘ |
| antagonist |
Android 17
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Android 18 NERFINISHED ⓘ Android 19 NERFINISHED ⓘ Cell NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Gero NERFINISHED ⓘ Frieza NERFINISHED ⓘ Ginyu Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Majin Buu NERFINISHED ⓘ Nappa NERFINISHED ⓘ Raditz NERFINISHED ⓘ Saiyan Saga Vegeta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dragon Ball manga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Akira Toriyama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Daisuke Nishio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| EnglishDubLicensor | Funimation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Dragon Ball GT
NERFINISHED
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Dragon Ball Super NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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adventure ⓘ martial arts ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasVideoGameAdaptation |
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series
NERFINISHED
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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | global popularization of anime ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bulma
NERFINISHED
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Gohan NERFINISHED ⓘ Goku NERFINISHED ⓘ Krillin NERFINISHED ⓘ Piccolo NERFINISHED ⓘ Trunks NERFINISHED ⓘ Vegeta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mangakaOfSourceWork | Akira Toriyama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Shunsuke Kikuchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
Dragon Balls
NERFINISHED
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Fusion ⓘ Ki energy ⓘ Super Saiyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 291 ⓘ |
| openingTheme |
Cha-La Head-Cha-La
NERFINISHED
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We Gotta Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Fuji TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalRunEnd | 1996-01-31 ⓘ |
| originalRunStart | 1989-04-26 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Dragon Ball franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Dragon Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Toei Animation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Earth
NERFINISHED
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Namek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spinOff | Dragon Ball Z Kai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetDemographic | shōnen ⓘ |
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: Dragon Ball Z Description of subject: Dragon Ball Z is a hugely influential Japanese anime series that follows Goku and his allies as they defend Earth from increasingly powerful foes, helping popularize anime worldwide.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dragon Ball (franchise)
this entity surface form:
Dragon Ball Z (Ocean dub)