Simon
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Simon is the young, initially timid but ultimately heroic protagonist of the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, known for piloting powerful mecha and embodying themes of growth and determination.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9001784 — 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: Simon Context triple: [Gurren Lagann, mainCharacter, Simon]
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A.
Simon
Simon is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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B.
Simon
Simon is the given name of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., a U.S. Army lieutenant general who was killed in action while commanding forces during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.
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C.
Simon
Simon is a common surname of English and Jewish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, business, arts, and sciences.
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D.
Simon
Simon is a sleazy used-car salesman and comic-relief character in the action-comedy film "True Lies," who pretends to be a secret agent to seduce women.
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E.
Simon
Simon is the central character in Ang Lee's 1993 film "The Wedding Banquet," a Taiwanese American man who enters a sham marriage to appease his traditional parents while secretly living with his male partner in New York.
- 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: Simon Target entity description: Simon is the young, initially timid but ultimately heroic protagonist of the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, known for piloting powerful mecha and embodying themes of growth and determination.
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A.
Simon
Simon is the given name of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., a U.S. Army lieutenant general who was killed in action while commanding forces during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.
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B.
Simon
Simon is a common surname of English and Jewish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, business, arts, and sciences.
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C.
Simon
Simon is a sleazy used-car salesman and comic-relief character in the action-comedy film "True Lies," who pretends to be a secret agent to seduce women.
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D.
Simon
Simon is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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E.
Simon
Simon is the central character in Ang Lee's 1993 film "The Wedding Banquet," a Taiwanese American man who enters a sham marriage to appease his traditional parents while secretly living with his male partner in New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anime character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ mecha pilot ⓘ |
| allyOf | Team Dai-Gurren ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Gurren Lagann manga adaptation
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ⓘ Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann movies ⓘ |
| catchphrase | My drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens! ⓘ |
| closeTo |
Kamina
ⓘ
Yoko Littner ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gainax ⓘ |
| designedBy | Atsushi Nishigori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| fiancée | Nia Teppelin ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Episode 1 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | blue ⓘ |
| hasWeapon | Core Drill ⓘ |
| homeLocation | Giha Village ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Nia Teppelin ⓘ |
| memberOf | Team Dai-Gurren ⓘ |
| nameInRomaji | Simon ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
became leader of humanity in the war against the Anti-Spirals
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defeated the Anti-Spiral ⓘ |
| notableFor |
character growth
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drilling motif ⓘ piloting powerful mecha ⓘ |
| occupation |
digger
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leader of Team Dai-Gurren ⓘ mecha pilot ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
brave
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determined ⓘ loyal ⓘ timid (initially) ⓘ |
| pilotOf |
Arc-Gurren Lagann
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linked to:
Gurren Lagann (combined mecha)
Gurren Lagann ⓘ
linked to:
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Lagann ⓘ
linked to:
Gurren Lagann
Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann ⓘ Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ⓘ
linked to:
Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ⓘ |
| relative | Kamina (adoptive older brother figure) ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| symbol | drill ⓘ |
| theme |
fighting against fate
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growth ⓘ self-confidence ⓘ |
| title | Simon the Digger ⓘ |
| voiceActorEnglish | Yuri Lowenthal ⓘ |
| voiceActorJapanese | Tetsuya Kakihara 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: Simon Description of subject: Simon is the young, initially timid but ultimately heroic protagonist of the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, known for piloting powerful mecha and embodying themes of growth and determination.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.