Hideki Kuriyama
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Hideki Kuriyama is a Japanese baseball manager and former player best known for leading both the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Nippon Professional Baseball and the Japan national team to major international success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hideki Kuriyama canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3561486 — 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: Hideki Kuriyama Context triple: [Japan national baseball team, famousManager, Hideki Kuriyama]
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A.
Kiyotake Kawaguchi
Kiyotake Kawaguchi was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the Guadalcanal campaign during World War II.
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B.
Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
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C.
Masanobu Takayanagi
Masanobu Takayanagi is a Japanese cinematographer known for his work on acclaimed films such as Silver Linings Playbook, Spotlight, and Warrior.
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D.
Masataka Yoshida
Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
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E.
Gisiro Maruyama
Gisiro Maruyama was a Japanese mathematician known for his foundational contributions to the theory and numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations.
- 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: Hideki Kuriyama Target entity description: Hideki Kuriyama is a Japanese baseball manager and former player best known for leading both the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Nippon Professional Baseball and the Japan national team to major international success.
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A.
Kiyotake Kawaguchi
Kiyotake Kawaguchi was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the Guadalcanal campaign during World War II.
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B.
Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
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C.
Masanobu Takayanagi
Masanobu Takayanagi is a Japanese cinematographer known for his work on acclaimed films such as Silver Linings Playbook, Spotlight, and Warrior.
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D.
Masataka Yoshida
Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
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E.
Gisiro Maruyama
Gisiro Maruyama was a Japanese mathematician known for his foundational contributions to the theory and numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball manager
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former baseball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | Nippon Professional Baseball system ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer |
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
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Japan national baseball team ⓘ |
| familyName | Kuriyama ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional baseball ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Hideki ⓘ |
| hasRole |
outfielder
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team manager ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Japanese baseball community ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| leagueManagedIn | Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| managedNationalTeam | Japan national baseball team ⓘ |
| managedTeam | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters ⓘ |
| name | Hideki Kuriyama ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
guiding Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters to league titles
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winning major international tournaments with Japan national baseball team ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters to success in Nippon Professional Baseball
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leading Japan national baseball team to major international success ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball manager
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baseball player ⓘ |
| residence | Japan ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
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: Hideki Kuriyama Description of subject: Hideki Kuriyama is a Japanese baseball manager and former player best known for leading both the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Nippon Professional Baseball and the Japan national team to major international success.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.