Yoshio Sakamoto
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Yoshio Sakamoto is a Japanese video game designer and director at Nintendo, best known for his long-running creative leadership on the Metroid series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yoshio Sakamoto canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5079901 — 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: Yoshio Sakamoto Context triple: [Metroid, coCreator, Yoshio Sakamoto]
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A.
Kenji Satō
Kenji Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the common Japanese surname Satō.
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B.
Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
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C.
Shōzō Sakurai
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
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D.
Koichi Satō
Koichi Satō is a prominent Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater.
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E.
Toshio Satō
Toshio Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Satō.
- 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: Yoshio Sakamoto Target entity description: Yoshio Sakamoto is a Japanese video game designer and director at Nintendo, best known for his long-running creative leadership on the Metroid series.
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A.
Kenji Satō
Kenji Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the common Japanese surname Satō.
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B.
Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
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C.
Shōzō Sakurai
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
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D.
Koichi Satō
Koichi Satō is a prominent Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater.
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E.
Toshio Satō
Toshio Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Satō.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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video game designer ⓘ video game director ⓘ |
| basedIn | Kyoto (Nintendo headquarters) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer |
Nintendo
NERFINISHED
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Nintendo R&D1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
game design
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game direction ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| genre |
action-adventure games
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platform games ⓘ science fiction games ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Nintendo EPD
NERFINISHED
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Nintendo SPD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Yoshio Sakamoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 坂本 賀勇 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-creating the WarioWare series
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creative leadership on the Metroid series ⓘ long-term work at Nintendo ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Balloon Fight
NERFINISHED
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Kid Icarus NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid Fusion NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid series NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid: Other M NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid: Samus Returns NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid: Zero Mission NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhythm Heaven series NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Metroid NERFINISHED ⓘ WarioWare series NERFINISHED ⓘ WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
video game designer
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video game director ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Balloon Fight
NERFINISHED
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Kid Icarus NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid Fusion NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid: Other M NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid: Samus Returns NERFINISHED ⓘ Metroid: Zero Mission NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhythm Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Metroid NERFINISHED ⓘ WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! NERFINISHED ⓘ WarioWare: Smooth Moves NERFINISHED ⓘ WarioWare: Touched! 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: Yoshio Sakamoto Description of subject: Yoshio Sakamoto is a Japanese video game designer and director at Nintendo, best known for his long-running creative leadership on the Metroid series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.