20 (Shigeru Sugishita)
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20 (Shigeru Sugishita) is the retired jersey number of legendary Japanese pitcher Shigeru Sugishita, honored by the Chunichi Dragons for his outstanding contributions to the team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 20 (Shigeru Sugishita) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955147 — 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: 20 (Shigeru Sugishita) Context triple: [Chunichi Dragons, hasRetiredNumber, 20 (Shigeru Sugishita)]
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A.
Tomonaga Shinichiro
Tomonaga Shinichiro was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
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B.
Eiichi Kono
Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.
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C.
Uehara Yūsaku
Uehara Yūsaku was a Japanese military officer who served as a notable commander in the Imperial Japanese Army’s 3rd Division.
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D.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
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E.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
- 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: 20 (Shigeru Sugishita) Target entity description: 20 (Shigeru Sugishita) is the retired jersey number of legendary Japanese pitcher Shigeru Sugishita, honored by the Chunichi Dragons for his outstanding contributions to the team.
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A.
Tomonaga Shinichiro
Tomonaga Shinichiro was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics.
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B.
Eiichi Kono
Eiichi Kono is a Japanese type designer best known for his work on the digital revival and refinement of the iconic Johnston typeface used across the London Underground.
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C.
Uehara Yūsaku
Uehara Yūsaku was a Japanese military officer who served as a notable commander in the Imperial Japanese Army’s 3rd Division.
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D.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
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E.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
honor
ⓘ
retired jersey number ⓘ |
| associatedPlayer | Shigeru Sugishita ⓘ |
| associatedWithLeague | Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| honoredBy | Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| honors |
Japanese baseball pitcher
ⓘ
Shigeru Sugishita ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 20 ⓘ |
| reasonForHonor | outstanding contributions to the Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| team | Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
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: 20 (Shigeru Sugishita) Description of subject: 20 (Shigeru Sugishita) is the retired jersey number of legendary Japanese pitcher Shigeru Sugishita, honored by the Chunichi Dragons for his outstanding contributions to the team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.