Hiroshi Amano
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Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and semiconductor technology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiroshi Amano canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T368113 — 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: Hiroshi Amano Context triple: [IEEE Photonics Award, notableRecipient, Hiroshi Amano]
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A.
Tadahiko Mibuchi
Tadahiko Mibuchi was a Japanese jurist who became the first person to serve as Chief Justice of Japan.
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B.
Yoshihisa Hirano
Yoshihisa Hirano is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, particularly as a late-inning reliever.
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C.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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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.
Shōji Nishimura
Shōji Nishimura was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II, noted for his role and death in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 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: Hiroshi Amano Target entity description: Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and semiconductor technology.
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A.
Tadahiko Mibuchi
Tadahiko Mibuchi was a Japanese jurist who became the first person to serve as Chief Justice of Japan.
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B.
Yoshihisa Hirano
Yoshihisa Hirano is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, particularly as a late-inning reliever.
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C.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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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.
Shōji Nishimura
Shōji Nishimura was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II, noted for his role and death in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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engineer ⓘ person ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in engineering ⓘ |
| almaMater | Nagoya University ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edison Medal
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surface form:
IEEE Edison Medal
Japan Academy Prize ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Order of Culture ⓘ
surface form:
Order of Culture (Japan)
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| birthDate | 1960-09-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Isamu Akasaki ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Nagoya University ⓘ |
| employer | Nagoya University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
materials science
ⓘ
optoelectronics ⓘ physics ⓘ semiconductor physics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blue light-emitting diodes
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gallium nitride semiconductors ⓘ semiconductor technology ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Japan Academy ⓘ
surface form:
The Japan Academy
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| name | Hiroshi Amano self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 天野 浩 ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.category | Physics ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.motivation | for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.year | 2014 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
development of high-quality GaN layers for blue LEDs
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pioneering work on p-type GaN ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics at Nagoya University
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professor at Nagoya University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
gallium nitride (GaN)
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light-emitting diodes ⓘ wide bandgap semiconductors ⓘ |
| residence |
Nagoya
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surface form:
Nagoya, Japan
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| sharedNobelPrizeWith |
Isamu Akasaki
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Shuji Nakamura ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hiroshi Amano Description of subject: Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and semiconductor technology.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hamamatsu
subject surface form:
Shuji Nakamura