Mako
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Mako is a central firebending protagonist in *The Legend of Korra*, known for his serious demeanor, leadership in Team Avatar, and complex romantic relationships.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mako canonical | 1 |
| Mako in The Legend of Korra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8579967 — 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: Mako Context triple: [The Legend of Korra, mainCharacter, Mako]
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A.
Mako
Mako is a high-speed steel roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando themed around the ocean’s fastest shark.
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B.
Mako
Mako was a Japanese-American actor and voice actor known for his distinctive voice and roles in films like "Conan the Barbarian" and as the voice of Iroh in "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
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C.
Mako
Mako is a Japanese imperial family member best known as Princess Mako of Akishino, the former princess who left royal status upon her marriage to a commoner.
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D.
Mako
Mako is the nickname of Benjamin Mako Hill, a prominent free software activist, scholar, and developer involved with projects like Debian and Wikimedia.
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E.
Samu
Samu is a given name, commonly used as a short form or variant of Samuel in various cultures.
- 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: Mako Target entity description: Mako is a central firebending protagonist in *The Legend of Korra*, known for his serious demeanor, leadership in Team Avatar, and complex romantic relationships.
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A.
Mako
Mako was a Japanese-American actor and voice actor known for his distinctive voice and roles in films like "Conan the Barbarian" and as the voice of Iroh in "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
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B.
Mako
Mako is a Japanese imperial family member best known as Princess Mako of Akishino, the former princess who left royal status upon her marriage to a commoner.
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C.
Mako
Mako is a high-speed steel roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando themed around the ocean’s fastest shark.
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D.
Mako
Mako is the nickname of Benjamin Mako Hill, a prominent free software activist, scholar, and developer involved with projects like Debian and Wikimedia.
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E.
Samu
Samu is a given name, commonly used as a short form or variant of Samuel in various cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated character
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fictional character ⓘ firebender ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| ally |
Asami Sato
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bolin NERFINISHED ⓘ Korra NERFINISHED ⓘ Lin Beifong NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenzin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Legend of Korra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bendingAbility |
firebending
ⓘ
lightning generation ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Bryan Konietzko
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Dante DiMartino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | golden-brown ⓘ |
| familyStatus | orphan ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst |
Amon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Equalists NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuvira NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Lotus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Legend of Korra – Book One: Air NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| homeCity | Republic City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Team Avatar (The Legend of Korra) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mako Iwamatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United Republic of Nations citizen ⓘ |
| notableAction | redirected a spirit vine cannon blast with lightning ⓘ |
| occupation |
Republic City police officer
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detective ⓘ pro-bender ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
protective
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responsible ⓘ serious ⓘ |
| proBendingTeam | Fire Ferrets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticRelationship |
Asami Sato
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Korra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesBookAppearance |
Book Four: Balance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Book One: Air NERFINISHED ⓘ Book Three: Change NERFINISHED ⓘ Book Two: Spirits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Bolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | pro-bending ⓘ |
| teamRole | leader ⓘ |
| universe | Avatar: The Last Airbender universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceActor | David Faustino 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: Mako Description of subject: Mako is a central firebending protagonist in *The Legend of Korra*, known for his serious demeanor, leadership in Team Avatar, and complex romantic relationships.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Faustino
this entity surface form:
Mako in The Legend of Korra