Taku Matoba
E373479
Taku Matoba is a video game programmer known for his work on Nintendo's acclaimed title Super Mario Galaxy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Taku Matoba canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3597964 — 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: Taku Matoba Context triple: [Super Mario Galaxy, programmer, Taku Matoba]
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A.
Masatake
Masatake is a Japanese masculine given name that has been borne by various notable figures, including military and political leaders.
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B.
Takaishi
Takaishi is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as a small industrial and residential hub within the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Munetaka
Munetaka is a Japanese professional baseball slugger best known for his record-setting home run power in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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D.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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E.
Tadahiko
Tadahiko is a Japanese masculine given name used by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and academia.
- 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: Taku Matoba Target entity description: Taku Matoba is a video game programmer known for his work on Nintendo's acclaimed title Super Mario Galaxy.
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A.
Masatake
Masatake is a Japanese masculine given name that has been borne by various notable figures, including military and political leaders.
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B.
Takaishi
Takaishi is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as a small industrial and residential hub within the Osaka metropolitan area.
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C.
Munetaka
Munetaka is a Japanese professional baseball slugger best known for his record-setting home run power in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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D.
Takamado
Takamado is a Japanese imperial family name most prominently associated with the late Prince Takamado and his descendants, a branch of Japan’s royal household.
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E.
Tadahiko
Tadahiko is a Japanese masculine given name used by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, arts, and academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | video game programmer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer | Nintendo ⓘ |
| knownFor | Super Mario Galaxy ⓘ |
| occupation | video game programmer ⓘ |
| workedOn | Super Mario Galaxy ⓘ |
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: Taku Matoba Description of subject: Taku Matoba is a video game programmer known for his work on Nintendo's acclaimed title Super Mario Galaxy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.