Atsunori Inaba
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Atsunori Inaba is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder and first baseman who became a star player and later manager in Nippon Professional Baseball.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Atsunori Inaba canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6806021 — 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: Atsunori Inaba Context triple: [Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, notablePlayer, Atsunori Inaba]
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A.
Tatsunori Hara
Tatsunori Hara is a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former Yomiuri Giants star known for leading both his club and Japan’s national team to multiple championships.
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B.
Shunsuke Nakamura
Shunsuke Nakamura is a renowned Japanese attacking midfielder best known for his precise free-kicks and successful spells in European football, particularly with Celtic.
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C.
Hiroki Kuroda
Hiroki Kuroda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher best known for his successful career in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.
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D.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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E.
Kosuke Fukudome
Kosuke Fukudome is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including stints with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.
- 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: Atsunori Inaba Target entity description: Atsunori Inaba is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder and first baseman who became a star player and later manager in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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A.
Tatsunori Hara
Tatsunori Hara is a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former Yomiuri Giants star known for leading both his club and Japan’s national team to multiple championships.
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B.
Shunsuke Nakamura
Shunsuke Nakamura is a renowned Japanese attacking midfielder best known for his precise free-kicks and successful spells in European football, particularly with Celtic.
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C.
Hiroki Kuroda
Hiroki Kuroda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher best known for his successful career in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.
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D.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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E.
Kosuke Fukudome
Kosuke Fukudome is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including stints with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese baseball player
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baseball manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| familyName | Inaba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Atsunori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league |
Central League
NERFINISHED
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Pacific League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | Nippon Professional Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedTeam |
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
NERFINISHED
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Japan national baseball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Japan national baseball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Atsunori Inaba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a star player in Nippon Professional Baseball
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managing the Japan national baseball team ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball coach
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baseball manager ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2004 Summer Olympics baseball tournament
NERFINISHED
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2006 World Baseball Classic NERFINISHED ⓘ 2008 Summer Olympics baseball tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ 2009 World Baseball Classic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
NERFINISHED
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Tokyo Yakult Swallows NERFINISHED ⓘ Yakult Swallows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
first baseman
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outfielder ⓘ |
| role | manager ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | left ⓘ |
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: Atsunori Inaba Description of subject: Atsunori Inaba is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder and first baseman who became a star player and later manager in Nippon Professional Baseball.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.