Kenichiro Imaizumi (former)
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Kenichiro Imaizumi is a Japanese video game producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Hideo Kojima on the Metal Gear series and his former leadership role at Kojima Productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenichiro Imaizumi (former) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6960186 — 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: Kenichiro Imaizumi (former) Context triple: [Kojima Productions, keyPerson, Kenichiro Imaizumi (former)]
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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C.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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D.
Shigeru Fukudome
Shigeru Fukudome was a senior admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who held key staff and command positions during World War II.
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E.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
- 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: Kenichiro Imaizumi (former) Target entity description: Kenichiro Imaizumi is a Japanese video game producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Hideo Kojima on the Metal Gear series and his former leadership role at Kojima Productions.
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
Yoshitsugu Saito
Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
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C.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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D.
Shigeru Fukudome
Shigeru Fukudome was a senior admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who held key staff and command positions during World War II.
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E.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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video game producer ⓘ |
| basedIn | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Hideo Kojima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer |
Kojima Productions
NERFINISHED
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Kojima Productions Co., Ltd. (independent studio) NERFINISHED ⓘ Konami NERFINISHED ⓘ NetEase Games NERFINISHED ⓘ Private Division NERFINISHED ⓘ ProbablyMonsters NERFINISHED ⓘ Studio founded with ProbablyMonsters (Firewalk Studios / internal team) ⓘ Tencent NERFINISHED ⓘ Yooka-Laylee-related studio (Playtonic / partner role) ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | video game industry ⓘ |
| genre |
action-adventure video games
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role-playing video games ⓘ stealth video games ⓘ |
| hasNotableColleague |
Kenji Yano
NERFINISHED
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Yoji Shinkawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership role at Kojima Productions
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longtime collaboration with Hideo Kojima ⓘ production work on the Metal Gear series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
NERFINISHED
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Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand NERFINISHED ⓘ Castlevania: Lords of Shadow NERFINISHED ⓘ Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Stranding NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid series NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ NeverDead NERFINISHED ⓘ P.T. NERFINISHED ⓘ Zone of the Enders NERFINISHED ⓘ Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | video game producer ⓘ |
| role |
producer on Metal Gear titles
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production leader on Death Stranding ⓘ senior producer at Kojima Productions ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kenichiro Imaizumi (former) Description of subject: Kenichiro Imaizumi is a Japanese video game producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Hideo Kojima on the Metal Gear series and his former leadership role at Kojima Productions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.