Hideki Matsui
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Hideki Matsui is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger who became a star outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, most notably with the New York Yankees.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hideki Matsui canonical | 12 |
| 松井秀喜 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T660279 — 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: Hideki Matsui Context triple: [2009 World Series, MostValuablePlayer, Hideki Matsui]
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A.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is an elite Japanese right-handed pitcher, renowned for his dominant performances in Nippon Professional Baseball and subsequent move to Major League Baseball.
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B.
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki is a legendary Japanese professional baseball outfielder renowned for his record-breaking hitting, speed, and defensive prowess in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
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C.
Iwane Matsui
Iwane Matsui was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army, best known for leading forces in the Second Sino-Japanese War and being held responsible for atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre.
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D.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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E.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
- 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: Hideki Matsui Target entity description: Hideki Matsui is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger who became a star outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, most notably with the New York Yankees.
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A.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is an elite Japanese right-handed pitcher, renowned for his dominant performances in Nippon Professional Baseball and subsequent move to Major League Baseball.
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B.
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki is a legendary Japanese professional baseball outfielder renowned for his record-breaking hitting, speed, and defensive prowess in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
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C.
Iwane Matsui
Iwane Matsui was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army, best known for leading forces in the Second Sino-Japanese War and being held responsible for atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre.
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D.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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E.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hideki Matsui Description of subject: Hideki Matsui is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger who became a star outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, most notably with the New York Yankees.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
松井秀喜