Death Note franchise

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The Death Note franchise is a popular Japanese dark fantasy series centered on a supernatural notebook that grants its user the power to kill anyone by writing their name, spanning manga, anime, live-action films, and other media adaptations.

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Label	Occurrences
Death Note	13
Death Note (anime)	3
Death Note live-action film series	3
Death Note (Japanese tankōbon)	1
Death Note franchise canonical	1
Death Note live-action franchise	1
Death Note manga series	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20958430 — 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: Death Note franchise
Context triple: [Death Note (2017 film score), partOfSeries, Death Note franchise]

A. Death Note (2006 film)
Death Note (2006 film) is a Japanese live-action adaptation of the popular manga and anime series, following a high school student who gains a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing their name in it.
B. Death Note (2017 film)
Death Note (2017 film) is a 2017 American live-action supernatural thriller on Netflix that adapts the popular Japanese manga and anime about a notebook that grants its user the power to kill anyone whose name is written in it.
C. Death Note: New Generation
Death Note: New Generation is a live-action Japanese miniseries that serves as a prequel to the 2015 Death Note television drama, expanding the franchise’s story with new characters and cases involving the deadly notebook.
D. Detective Conan
Detective Conan is a long-running Japanese mystery anime and manga series that follows teenage detective Shinichi Kudo, who is transformed into a child and solves complex cases under the alias Conan Edogawa.
E. The Death Notebooks
The Death Notebooks is a posthumously published collection of confessional poetry by Anne Sexton that confronts mortality, mental illness, and spiritual crisis with stark, intimate intensity.
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: Death Note franchise
Target entity description: The Death Note franchise is a popular Japanese dark fantasy series centered on a supernatural notebook that grants its user the power to kill anyone by writing their name, spanning manga, anime, live-action films, and other media adaptations.

A. Death Note (2006 film)
Death Note (2006 film) is a Japanese live-action adaptation of the popular manga and anime series, following a high school student who gains a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing their name in it.
B. Death Note (2017 film)
Death Note (2017 film) is a 2017 American live-action supernatural thriller on Netflix that adapts the popular Japanese manga and anime about a notebook that grants its user the power to kill anyone whose name is written in it.
C. Death Note: New Generation
Death Note: New Generation is a live-action Japanese miniseries that serves as a prequel to the 2015 Death Note television drama, expanding the franchise’s story with new characters and cases involving the deadly notebook.
D. Detective Conan
Detective Conan is a long-running Japanese mystery anime and manga series that follows teenage detective Shinichi Kudo, who is transformed into a child and solves complex cases under the alias Conan Edogawa.
E. The Death Notebooks
The Death Notebooks is a posthumously published collection of confessional poetry by Anne Sexton that confronts mortality, mental illness, and spiritual crisis with stark, intimate intensity.
F. None of above. chosen