Lone Wolf and Cub

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Lone Wolf and Cub is a classic Japanese manga series that follows a disgraced executioner and his young son on a violent, philosophical journey of revenge through feudal Japan.

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Label	Occurrences
Lone Wolf and Cub canonical	4
Lone Wolf and Cub film series	1
Lone Wolf and Cub television series	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14708915 — 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: Lone Wolf and Cub
Context triple: [Dark Horse Manga, publishes, Lone Wolf and Cub]

A. The 47th Samurai
The 47th Samurai is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter that follows retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he becomes embroiled in a deadly mission involving samurai swords, yakuza, and buried World War II secrets in Japan.
B. The Lone Wolf
The Lone Wolf is a fictional suave gentleman thief-turned-detective featured in a long-running series of mystery films and stories.
C. Okehazama no Tatakai
Okehazama no Tatakai is a pivotal 1560 battle in Japan in which the outnumbered Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto, marking the beginning of Nobunaga’s rise to power.
D. 47 Ronin
47 Ronin is a 2013 fantasy action film loosely inspired by the Japanese legend of the forty-seven rōnin, blending samurai drama with supernatural elements.
E. Yojimbo
Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese samurai film that follows a crafty ronin who manipulates two rival gangs in a small town, widely regarded as one of Akira Kurosawa’s most influential works.
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: Lone Wolf and Cub
Target entity description: Lone Wolf and Cub is a classic Japanese manga series that follows a disgraced executioner and his young son on a violent, philosophical journey of revenge through feudal Japan.

A. The 47th Samurai
The 47th Samurai is a thriller novel by Stephen Hunter that follows retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger as he becomes embroiled in a deadly mission involving samurai swords, yakuza, and buried World War II secrets in Japan.
B. The Lone Wolf
The Lone Wolf is a fictional suave gentleman thief-turned-detective featured in a long-running series of mystery films and stories.
C. Okehazama no Tatakai
Okehazama no Tatakai is a pivotal 1560 battle in Japan in which the outnumbered Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto, marking the beginning of Nobunaga’s rise to power.
D. 47 Ronin
47 Ronin is a 2013 fantasy action film loosely inspired by the Japanese legend of the forty-seven rōnin, blending samurai drama with supernatural elements.
E. Yojimbo
Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese samurai film that follows a crafty ronin who manipulates two rival gangs in a small town, widely regarded as one of Akira Kurosawa’s most influential works.
F. None of above. chosen