Koichi Hayashida
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Koichi Hayashida is a Japanese video game designer best known for his prominent work on Nintendo’s Super Mario series, particularly the 3D platformer entries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Koichi Hayashida canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3597963 — 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: Koichi Hayashida Context triple: [Super Mario Galaxy, designer, Koichi Hayashida]
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A.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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B.
Kazuhiko Nishijima
Kazuhiko Nishijima was a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, which helped classify subatomic particles and advance the quark model in particle physics.
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C.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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D.
Shigeo Nagashima
Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
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E.
Toshio Kashio
Toshio Kashio was a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Casio, a pioneering company in electronic calculators and consumer electronics.
- 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: Koichi Hayashida Target entity description: Koichi Hayashida is a Japanese video game designer best known for his prominent work on Nintendo’s Super Mario series, particularly the 3D platformer entries.
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A.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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B.
Kazuhiko Nishijima
Kazuhiko Nishijima was a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, which helped classify subatomic particles and advance the quark model in particle physics.
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C.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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D.
Shigeo Nagashima
Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
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E.
Toshio Kashio
Toshio Kashio was a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Casio, a pioneering company in electronic calculators and consumer electronics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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video game designer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Nintendo EAD Tokyo
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Nintendo EPD Tokyo ⓘ
linked to:
Nintendo EPD
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| basedIn | Tokyo ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker design
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Super Mario 3D Land design ⓘ Super Mario 3D World design ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy 2 design ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy design ⓘ The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) design ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer |
Nintendo
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Nintendo EAD ⓘ Nintendo EPD ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
game direction
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game programming ⓘ video game design ⓘ |
| genre |
3D platform game
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platform game ⓘ |
| industry | video game industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing 3D platformer levels
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work on Nintendo’s Super Mario series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | innovative level design in 3D Mario games ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
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Super Mario 3D Land ⓘ Super Mario 3D World ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy ⓘ Super Mario Galaxy 2 ⓘ The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019 video game) ⓘ
linked to:
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
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| occupation |
director
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game programmer ⓘ video game designer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
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director of Super Mario 3D Land ⓘ director of Super Mario 3D World ⓘ director of Super Mario Galaxy 2 ⓘ |
| worksOn |
3D Super Mario games
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Super Mario series ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Koichi Hayashida Description of subject: Koichi Hayashida is a Japanese video game designer best known for his prominent work on Nintendo’s Super Mario series, particularly the 3D platformer entries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.