Kosuke Fukudome
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Kosuke Fukudome is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including stints with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kosuke Fukudome canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955131 — 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: Kosuke Fukudome Context triple: [Chunichi Dragons, notablePlayer, Kosuke Fukudome]
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A.
Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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B.
Tatsunori Hara
Tatsunori Hara is a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former Yomiuri Giants star known for leading both his club and Japan’s national team to multiple championships.
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C.
Min Tanaka
Min Tanaka is a renowned Japanese dancer and actor known for his avant-garde butoh performances and roles in international films.
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D.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
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E.
Ichirō Matsui
Ichirō Matsui is a Japanese politician and former governor of Osaka Prefecture, best known as a leading figure in regional reform politics and as a co-founder of the Nippon Ishin no Kai party.
- 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: Kosuke Fukudome Target entity description: Kosuke Fukudome is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including stints with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.
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A.
Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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B.
Tatsunori Hara
Tatsunori Hara is a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former Yomiuri Giants star known for leading both his club and Japan’s national team to multiple championships.
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C.
Min Tanaka
Min Tanaka is a renowned Japanese dancer and actor known for his avant-garde butoh performances and roles in international films.
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D.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
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E.
Ichirō Matsui
Ichirō Matsui is a Japanese politician and former governor of Osaka Prefecture, best known as a leading figure in regional reform politics and as a co-founder of the Nippon Ishin no Kai party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
outfielder ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| countryRepresentedInSport | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-04-26 ⓘ |
| familyName | Fukudome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional sports ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kosuke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlayedInCountry |
Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAlive | true ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Major League Baseball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nippon Professional Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medalistAt |
2004 Summer Olympics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2008 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Chicago Cubs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicago White Sox NERFINISHED ⓘ Chunichi Dragons NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleveland Indians NERFINISHED ⓘ Hanshin Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan national baseball team NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Chicago Cubs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Kosuke Fukudome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 福留 孝介 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
stint with the Chicago Cubs
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stint with the Cleveland Indians ⓘ successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| NPBDebutTeam | Chunichi Dragons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal | bronze medal in baseball ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2004 Summer Olympics baseball tournament
ⓘ
2008 Summer Olympics baseball tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Osaka Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn |
Central League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
center fielder
ⓘ
right fielder ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
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: Kosuke Fukudome Description of subject: Kosuke Fukudome is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including stints with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.