fellow at Asahi Kasei
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Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of the modern lithium-ion battery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| fellow at Asahi Kasei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9018814 — 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: fellow at Asahi Kasei Context triple: [Akira Yoshino, positionHeld, fellow at Asahi Kasei]
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A.
Mitsubishi Kasei
Mitsubishi Kasei was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in Imperial Japanese Navy fighters and other military aircraft during World War II.
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B.
Minister of Science and Technology of Japan
The Minister of Science and Technology of Japan is a cabinet-level government official responsible for overseeing national policies, research initiatives, and innovation strategies in science and technology.
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C.
Ibuka Laboratory
Ibuka Laboratory was an electronics research workshop in postwar Tokyo that became the foundation for what would later grow into Sony.
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D.
Asahi Glass Foundation
The Asahi Glass Foundation is a Japanese philanthropic organization known for promoting environmental conservation and sustainability, including through its prestigious Blue Planet Prize.
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E.
Seiko Noda
Seiko Noda is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has held several ministerial posts and is known for her bids for party leadership and advocacy on social issues such as gender equality and declining birthrates.
- 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: fellow at Asahi Kasei Target entity description: Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of the modern lithium-ion battery.
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A.
Mitsubishi Kasei
Mitsubishi Kasei was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in Imperial Japanese Navy fighters and other military aircraft during World War II.
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B.
Minister of Science and Technology of Japan
The Minister of Science and Technology of Japan is a cabinet-level government official responsible for overseeing national policies, research initiatives, and innovation strategies in science and technology.
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C.
Ibuka Laboratory
Ibuka Laboratory was an electronics research workshop in postwar Tokyo that became the foundation for what would later grow into Sony.
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D.
Asahi Glass Foundation
The Asahi Glass Foundation is a Japanese philanthropic organization known for promoting environmental conservation and sustainability, including through its prestigious Blue Planet Prize.
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E.
Seiko Noda
Seiko Noda is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has held several ministerial posts and is known for her bids for party leadership and advocacy on social issues such as gender equality and declining birthrates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese chemist
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Nobel laureate ⓘ chemist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Global Energy Prize
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IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies ⓘ Japan Prize ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer |
Asahi Kasei
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linked to:
Asahi Kasei Corporation
Meijo University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
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electrochemistry ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
electric vehicle battery technology
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modern portable electronics industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of the modern lithium-ion battery
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rechargeable lithium-ion batteries ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Akira Yoshino ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneering commercialization of lithium-ion batteries ⓘ |
| notableWork |
creation of a practical lithium-ion rechargeable battery
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development of carbonaceous material anode for lithium-ion batteries ⓘ |
| occupation |
chemist
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engineer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
fellow at Asahi Kasei
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professor at Meijo University ⓘ |
| residence | Japan ⓘ |
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: fellow at Asahi Kasei Description of subject: Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of the modern lithium-ion battery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.