Masatoshi Takeichi
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Masatoshi Takeichi is a Japanese biologist renowned for discovering cadherins, a family of cell-adhesion molecules fundamental to embryonic development and tissue organization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Masatoshi Takeichi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11245917 — 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: Masatoshi Takeichi Context triple: [Tohoku University, hasNotableAlumni, Masatoshi Takeichi]
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A.
Masayoshi Tomizuka
Masayoshi Tomizuka is a prominent mechanical engineer and control theorist known for his influential contributions to control systems and mechatronics.
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B.
Tadahiko Mibuchi
Tadahiko Mibuchi was a Japanese jurist who became the first person to serve as Chief Justice of Japan.
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C.
Akinori Otsuka
Akinori Otsuka is a former Japanese professional baseball relief pitcher who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball and later became a successful closer in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Akira Nishitani
Akira Nishitani is a Japanese video game designer best known for his influential work at Capcom on classic arcade titles such as Street Fighter II and Final Fight.
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E.
Susumu Okubo
Susumu Okubo is a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for his contributions to particle physics and symmetry principles, including the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula.
- 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: Masatoshi Takeichi Target entity description: Masatoshi Takeichi is a Japanese biologist renowned for discovering cadherins, a family of cell-adhesion molecules fundamental to embryonic development and tissue organization.
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A.
Masayoshi Tomizuka
Masayoshi Tomizuka is a prominent mechanical engineer and control theorist known for his influential contributions to control systems and mechatronics.
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B.
Tadahiko Mibuchi
Tadahiko Mibuchi was a Japanese jurist who became the first person to serve as Chief Justice of Japan.
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C.
Akinori Otsuka
Akinori Otsuka is a former Japanese professional baseball relief pitcher who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball and later became a successful closer in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Akira Nishitani
Akira Nishitani is a Japanese video game designer best known for his influential work at Capcom on classic arcade titles such as Street Fighter II and Final Fight.
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E.
Susumu Okubo
Susumu Okubo is a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for his contributions to particle physics and symmetry principles, including the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese biologist
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academic ⓘ biologist ⓘ person ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cell biology
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developmental biology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasDiscovered |
cadherins
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cell-adhesion molecules of the cadherin family ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
cadherin superfamily
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cell adhesion molecules ⓘ cell junctions ⓘ signal transduction in cell adhesion ⓘ tissue architecture ⓘ |
| influenced |
cancer biology
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developmental biology ⓘ neurobiology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discovery of cadherins
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research on cell adhesion ⓘ research on embryonic development ⓘ research on tissue organization ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableConcept | calcium-dependent cell adhesion ⓘ |
| studies |
cell-cell adhesion
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embryonic tissue formation ⓘ morphogenesis ⓘ |
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: Masatoshi Takeichi Description of subject: Masatoshi Takeichi is a Japanese biologist renowned for discovering cadherins, a family of cell-adhesion molecules fundamental to embryonic development and tissue organization.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tohoku University