Tetsuya Utsumi
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Tetsuya Utsumi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known for his long and successful career with the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tetsuya Utsumi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4967082 — 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: Tetsuya Utsumi Context triple: [Giants, notablePlayer, Tetsuya Utsumi]
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A.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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B.
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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C.
Hirokazu Matsuno
Hirokazu Matsuno is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in senior government roles, including as a key spokesperson and coordinator for the national cabinet.
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D.
Koichi Hayashida
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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E.
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.
- 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: Tetsuya Utsumi Target entity description: Tetsuya Utsumi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known for his long and successful career with the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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A.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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B.
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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C.
Hirokazu Matsuno
Hirokazu Matsuno is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in senior government roles, including as a key spokesperson and coordinator for the national cabinet.
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D.
Koichi Hayashida
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| debutLeague | Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| debutTeam | Yomiuri Giants ⓘ |
| era | 21st century ⓘ |
| familyName | Utsumi ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Tetsuya ⓘ |
| hasWon |
Central League championship
ⓘ
linked to:
Central League
Japan Series championship ⓘ
linked to:
Japan Series
|
| isAlive | true ⓘ |
| league | Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Saitama Seibu Lions
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Yomiuri Giants ⓘ |
| name | Tetsuya Utsumi ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | long career with Yomiuri Giants ⓘ |
| occupation | professional baseball player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Game
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linked to:
NPB All-Star Game
World Baseball Classic ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kyoto Prefecture ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| represented | Japan national baseball team ⓘ |
| role |
relief pitcher
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starting pitcher ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| team | Yomiuri Giants ⓘ |
| 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
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Input
Subject: Tetsuya Utsumi Description of subject: Tetsuya Utsumi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known for his long and successful career with the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.