Dragon Ball (TV anime)

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Dragon Ball is a landmark Japanese anime series that follows the adventures of Goku and his friends as they search for the mystical Dragon Balls and defend Earth from powerful foes.

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Label	Occurrences
Dragon Ball	6
Dragon Ball (TV anime) canonical	1
Dragon Ball (anime)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22052737 — 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: Dragon Ball (TV anime)
Context triple: [Fuji Television Network, Inc., produced, Dragon Ball (TV anime)]

A. Dragon Ball Super
Dragon Ball Super is a Japanese anime and manga series that continues Goku and his friends’ adventures beyond Dragon Ball Z, introducing new transformations, universes, and powerful gods.
B. DragonBall
DragonBall is a family of Motorola 68000-based microprocessors designed primarily for use in early Palm OS handheld devices.
C. Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Z is a hugely influential Japanese anime series that follows Goku and his allies as they defend Earth from increasingly powerful foes, helping popularize anime worldwide.
D. Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball GT is a non-canon sequel anime to Dragon Ball Z that follows Goku and his friends on new adventures across the universe, featuring the Black Star Dragon Balls and powerful new enemies.
E. Dragonball Evolution
Dragonball Evolution is a 2009 live-action fantasy martial arts film adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga, widely criticized for its loose interpretation of the source material.
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: Dragon Ball (TV anime)
Target entity description: Dragon Ball is a landmark Japanese anime series that follows the adventures of Goku and his friends as they search for the mystical Dragon Balls and defend Earth from powerful foes.

A. Dragon Ball Super
Dragon Ball Super is a Japanese anime and manga series that continues Goku and his friends’ adventures beyond Dragon Ball Z, introducing new transformations, universes, and powerful gods.
B. DragonBall
DragonBall is a family of Motorola 68000-based microprocessors designed primarily for use in early Palm OS handheld devices.
C. Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Z is a hugely influential Japanese anime series that follows Goku and his allies as they defend Earth from increasingly powerful foes, helping popularize anime worldwide.
D. Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball GT is a non-canon sequel anime to Dragon Ball Z that follows Goku and his friends on new adventures across the universe, featuring the Black Star Dragon Balls and powerful new enemies.
E. Dragonball Evolution
Dragonball Evolution is a 2009 live-action fantasy martial arts film adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga, widely criticized for its loose interpretation of the source material.
F. None of above. chosen