Kenta Maeda
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Kenta Maeda is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kenta Maeda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4984499 — 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)
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Target entity: Kenta Maeda Context triple: [Hiroshima Toyo Carp, notablePlayer, Kenta Maeda]
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A.
Kenta Motokura
Kenta Motokura is a Japanese video game artist and director at Nintendo, best known for his creative work on major Super Mario titles.
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B.
Kenta Satō
Kenta Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Satō, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established.
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C.
Kenta Izumi
Kenta Izumi is a Japanese politician who serves as the leader of the main opposition force, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
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D.
Tomonori Maeda
Tomonori Maeda is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder and slugger for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, renowned as one of the Central League’s most accomplished hitters.
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E.
Masato Otaka
Masato Otaka is a Japanese architect associated with the Metabolism movement, known for his contributions to postwar urban planning and visionary megastructure designs.
- 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: Kenta Maeda Target entity description: Kenta Maeda is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins.
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A.
Kenta Motokura
Kenta Motokura is a Japanese video game artist and director at Nintendo, best known for his creative work on major Super Mario titles.
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B.
Kenta Satō
Kenta Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Satō, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established.
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C.
Kenta Izumi
Kenta Izumi is a Japanese politician who serves as the leader of the main opposition force, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
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D.
Tomonori Maeda
Tomonori Maeda is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder and slugger for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, renowned as one of the Central League’s most accomplished hitters.
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E.
Masato Otaka
Masato Otaka is a Japanese architect associated with the Metabolism movement, known for his contributions to postwar urban planning and visionary megastructure designs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball pitcher
ⓘ
human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Eiji Sawamura Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NPB Best Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ NPB Golden Glove Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1988-04-11 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese people ⓘ |
| familyName | Maeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Kenta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed pitcher ⓘ |
| hasRole |
relief pitcher
ⓘ
starting pitcher ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
18
ⓘ
8 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers
ⓘ
standout seasons with the Minnesota Twins ⓘ successful career in Major League Baseball ⓘ successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Major League Baseball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nippon Professional Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Detroit Tigers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hiroshima Toyo Carp NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Twins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Los Angeles Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Kenta Maeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 前田 健太 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NPBDebutTeam | Hiroshima Toyo Carp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball player
ⓘ
pitcher ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
MLB postseason with Los Angeles Dodgers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NPB All-Star Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tadaoka, Osaka, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForTeamInLeague |
Detroit Tigers in MLB
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hiroshima Toyo Carp in NPB NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers in MLB ⓘ Minnesota Twins in MLB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| residence |
Japan
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Kenta Maeda Description of subject: Kenta Maeda is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.