Tetsuya Iida
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Tetsuya Iida is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder best known for his career in Nippon Professional Baseball, particularly with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tetsuya Iida canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5049086 — 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)
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Target entity: Tetsuya Iida Context triple: [Tokyo Yakult Swallows, notablePlayer, Tetsuya Iida]
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A.
Iwao Matsuda
Iwao Matsuda was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the Pacific campaigns.
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B.
Yoshihiro Ushijima
Yoshihiro Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ushijima surname.
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C.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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D.
Gunpei Yokoi
Gunpei Yokoi was a pioneering Nintendo game designer and hardware engineer best known for creating the Game Boy and shaping early video game icons and systems.
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E.
Katsuya Nomura
Katsuya Nomura was a legendary Japanese baseball catcher and manager, renowned for his strategic acumen, long NPB career, and multiple championship titles.
- 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: Tetsuya Iida Target entity description: Tetsuya Iida is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder best known for his career in Nippon Professional Baseball, particularly with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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A.
Iwao Matsuda
Iwao Matsuda was an Imperial Japanese Army general who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the Pacific campaigns.
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B.
Yoshihiro Ushijima
Yoshihiro Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ushijima surname.
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C.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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D.
Gunpei Yokoi
Gunpei Yokoi was a pioneering Nintendo game designer and hardware engineer best known for creating the Game Boy and shaping early video game icons and systems.
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E.
Katsuya Nomura
Katsuya Nomura was a legendary Japanese baseball catcher and manager, renowned for his strategic acumen, long NPB career, and multiple championship titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball outfielder
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human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| competitionClass | professional ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer | Tokyo Yakult Swallows ⓘ |
| familyName | Iida ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional sports ⓘ |
| givenName | Tetsuya ⓘ |
| hasRole | outfielder ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Tokyo Yakult Swallows history ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Japanese ⓘ |
| league | Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Tokyo Yakult Swallows ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | career with Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances in Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| playedIn | Japan ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | outfielder ⓘ |
| residence | Japan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| sportingNationality | Japan ⓘ |
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: Tetsuya Iida Description of subject: Tetsuya Iida is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder best known for his career in Nippon Professional Baseball, particularly with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.