Viz Media
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Viz Media is a major North American entertainment company and publisher specializing in translating, localizing, and distributing Japanese manga and anime.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viz Media canonical | 13 |
| VIZ Media | 1 |
| Viz Communications | 1 |
| Viz Manga (digital platform) | 1 |
| Viz Media Europe (historical/related entity) | 1 |
| Viz.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9001236 — 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: Viz Media Context triple: [Fullmetal Alchemist, licensedInNorthAmericaBy, Viz Media]
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A.
Viz Productions
Viz Productions is a film production company known for working on major Hollywood projects such as the science fiction action movie "Edge of Tomorrow."
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B.
Shueisha
Shueisha is a major Japanese publishing company best known for producing popular manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Jump.
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C.
Aniplex
Aniplex is a Japanese anime and music production and distribution company known for producing and licensing numerous popular anime series and films.
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D.
A-1 Pictures
A-1 Pictures is a Japanese animation studio known for producing popular anime series and films across a wide range of genres.
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E.
Arka Media Works
Arka Media Works is an Indian film and television production company best known for backing large-scale, high-budget Telugu-language epics and pan-Indian cinema.
- 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: Viz Media Target entity description: Viz Media is a major North American entertainment company and publisher specializing in translating, localizing, and distributing Japanese manga and anime.
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A.
Viz Productions
Viz Productions is a film production company known for working on major Hollywood projects such as the science fiction action movie "Edge of Tomorrow."
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B.
Shueisha
Shueisha is a major Japanese publishing company best known for producing popular manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Jump.
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C.
Aniplex
Aniplex is a Japanese anime and music production and distribution company known for producing and licensing numerous popular anime series and films.
-
D.
A-1 Pictures
A-1 Pictures is a Japanese animation studio known for producing popular anime series and films across a wide range of genres.
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E.
Arka Media Works
Arka Media Works is an Indian film and television production company best known for backing large-scale, high-budget Telugu-language epics and pan-Indian cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anime distributor
ⓘ
entertainment company ⓘ manga publisher ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Shogakukan
ⓘ
Shueisha ⓘ Studio Pierrot ⓘ Toei Animation ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributes |
Bleach
ⓘ
Dragon Ball ⓘ
linked to:
Dragon Ball (TV anime)
Inuyasha ⓘ My Hero Academia ⓘ
linked to:
My Hero Academia (Japanese tankōbon)
Naruto ⓘ One Piece ⓘ Sailor Moon (manga, English-language) ⓘ
linked to:
Sailor Moon
anime for streaming platforms ⓘ anime on home video ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Japanese anime
ⓘ
Japanese manga ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Viz Communications
ⓘ
linked to:
Viz Media
|
| foundedBy |
Seiji Horibuchi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shogakukan ⓘ Shueisha ⓘ |
| hasOnlineService |
Viz.com
ⓘ
linked to:
Viz Media
|
| hasSubsidiary |
Viz Media Europe (historical/related entity)
ⓘ
linked to:
Viz Media
|
| headquartersLocation |
Los Angeles, California
ⓘ
San Francisco, California ⓘ |
| industry |
anime
ⓘ
entertainment ⓘ manga ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| marketsTo | North American audience ⓘ |
| operates |
Shonen Jump (digital service)
ⓘ
Viz Manga (digital platform) ⓘ
linked to:
Viz Media
|
| parentCompany |
Shogakukan
ⓘ
Shueisha ⓘ |
| productType |
digital manga
ⓘ
home video releases ⓘ print manga ⓘ streaming licenses ⓘ |
| publishes |
Shojo Beat titles in English
ⓘ
Shonen Jump titles in English ⓘ |
| regionServed | North America ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
distribution
ⓘ
localization ⓘ translation ⓘ |
| targetDemographic |
shojo readers
ⓘ
shonen readers ⓘ |
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: Viz Media Description of subject: Viz Media is a major North American entertainment company and publisher specializing in translating, localizing, and distributing Japanese manga and anime.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Viz Media
linked to: Viz Media
linked to: Viz Media