10 (Michio Nishizawa)
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Michio Nishizawa was a legendary Japanese professional baseball player and manager whose distinguished career with the Chunichi Dragons led the team to retire his number 10.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 10 (Michio Nishizawa) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955145 — 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: 10 (Michio Nishizawa) Context triple: [Chunichi Dragons, hasRetiredNumber, 10 (Michio Nishizawa)]
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A.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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B.
Tanaka Ryūkichi
Tanaka Ryūkichi was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military operations and administration during World War II, including in Hong Kong.
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C.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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E.
Tachū Naitō
Tachū Naitō was a prominent Japanese structural engineer renowned for designing major towers and high-rise structures in Japan, most famously Tokyo Tower.
- 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: 10 (Michio Nishizawa) Target entity description: Michio Nishizawa was a legendary Japanese professional baseball player and manager whose distinguished career with the Chunichi Dragons led the team to retire his number 10.
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A.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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B.
Tanaka Ryūkichi
Tanaka Ryūkichi was an Imperial Japanese Army general who played a leading role in Japan’s military operations and administration during World War II, including in Hong Kong.
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C.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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E.
Tachū Naitō
Tachū Naitō was a prominent Japanese structural engineer renowned for designing major towers and high-rise structures in Japan, most famously Tokyo Tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball manager
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human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfSport | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Chunichi Dragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasNumberRetiredBy | Chunichi Dragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor | number 10 retired by Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| jerseyNumberRetired | 10 ⓘ |
| league | Nippon Professional Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedTeam | Chunichi Dragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Chunichi Dragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
having his uniform number 10 retired by the Chunichi Dragons
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legendary career with the Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball manager
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baseball player ⓘ |
| participantIn | Japanese professional baseball ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
first baseman
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pitcher ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 10 ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| workLocation | Nagoya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: 10 (Michio Nishizawa) Description of subject: Michio Nishizawa was a legendary Japanese professional baseball player and manager whose distinguished career with the Chunichi Dragons led the team to retire his number 10.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.