Gen Urobuchi
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Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist and screenwriter best known for his dark, psychologically intense stories in anime and visual novels such as Fate/Zero and Psycho-Pass.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gen Urobuchi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9001419 — 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: Gen Urobuchi Context triple: [Puella Magi Madoka Magica, writer, Gen Urobuchi]
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A.
Toshio Shiratori
Toshio Shiratori was a Japanese diplomat and political figure who was convicted as a Class A war criminal for his role in promoting Japan’s militaristic expansion before and during World War II.
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B.
Eiichi Kono
Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.
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C.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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D.
Hiromori Hayashi
Hiromori Hayashi was a Japanese court musician of the Meiji era best known for arranging and formalizing the melody of Japan’s national anthem, "Kimigayo."
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E.
Iwao Nitta
Iwao Nitta was a Japanese chemist and academic known for mentoring future Nobel laureate Akira Suzuki during his doctoral studies.
- 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: Gen Urobuchi Target entity description: Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist and screenwriter best known for his dark, psychologically intense stories in anime and visual novels such as Fate/Zero and Psycho-Pass.
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A.
Toshio Shiratori
Toshio Shiratori was a Japanese diplomat and political figure who was convicted as a Class A war criminal for his role in promoting Japan’s militaristic expansion before and during World War II.
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B.
Eiichi Kono
Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.
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C.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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D.
Hiromori Hayashi
Hiromori Hayashi was a Japanese court musician of the Meiji era best known for arranging and formalizing the melody of Japan’s national anthem, "Kimigayo."
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E.
Iwao Nitta
Iwao Nitta was a Japanese chemist and academic known for mentoring future Nobel laureate Akira Suzuki during his doctoral studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese novelist
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light novel author ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ visual novel writer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
anime industry
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visual novel industry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Newtype Anime Award for Best Screenplay
NERFINISHED
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Tokyo Anime Award for Best Script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer | Nitroplus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
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psychological thriller ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| influencedWork | modern dark anime narratives ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dark storytelling
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psychologically intense narratives ⓘ subversion of genre tropes ⓘ tragic story developments ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Nitroplus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Gen Urobuchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 虚淵 玄 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | ja ⓘ |
| notableAlias | Urobuchi Gen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aldnoah.Zero
NERFINISHED
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Blassreiter NERFINISHED ⓘ Fate/Zero NERFINISHED ⓘ Phantom of Inferno NERFINISHED ⓘ Psycho-Pass NERFINISHED ⓘ Puella Magi Madoka Magica NERFINISHED ⓘ Saya no Uta NERFINISHED ⓘ Suisei no Gargantia NERFINISHED ⓘ Thunderbolt Fantasy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyricist
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novelist ⓘ scenario writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| wrote |
Aldnoah.Zero (anime series concept)
NERFINISHED
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Blassreiter (anime series composition) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fate/Zero (light novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ Phantom of Inferno (visual novel scenario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Psycho-Pass (anime series composition) ⓘ Puella Magi Madoka Magica (anime series script) NERFINISHED ⓘ Saya no Uta (visual novel scenario) NERFINISHED ⓘ Suisei no Gargantia (anime series composition) NERFINISHED ⓘ Thunderbolt Fantasy (series script) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Gen Urobuchi Description of subject: Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist and screenwriter best known for his dark, psychologically intense stories in anime and visual novels such as Fate/Zero and Psycho-Pass.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.