Kodansha
E775613
Kodansha is a major Japanese publishing company best known for producing and distributing popular manga, novels, and magazines worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kodansha canonical | 8 |
| Kodansha headquarters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9001525 — 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: Kodansha Context triple: [Monogatari Series, publisher, Kodansha]
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A.
Shueisha
Shueisha is a major Japanese publishing company best known for producing popular manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Jump.
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B.
Chūō Kōron Shinsha
Chūō Kōron Shinsha is a major Japanese publishing company known for its influential literary and cultural magazines and books.
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C.
Kodansha Box
Kodansha Box is a Japanese publishing imprint of Kodansha known for releasing innovative light novels and experimental fiction, including Nisio Isin’s Monogatari series.
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D.
Tsutaya Books
Tsutaya Books is a stylish Japanese bookstore chain known for its curated selection of books, magazines, music, and lifestyle goods, often housed in architecturally distinctive spaces that blend retail with cultural experience.
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E.
Dengeki Bunko
Dengeki Bunko is a Japanese light novel imprint of ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks), known for publishing popular series such as Sword Art Online and A Certain Magical Index.
- 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: Kodansha Target entity description: Kodansha is a major Japanese publishing company best known for producing and distributing popular manga, novels, and magazines worldwide.
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A.
Shueisha
Shueisha is a major Japanese publishing company best known for producing popular manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Jump.
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B.
Chūō Kōron Shinsha
Chūō Kōron Shinsha is a major Japanese publishing company known for its influential literary and cultural magazines and books.
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C.
Kodansha Box
Kodansha Box is a Japanese publishing imprint of Kodansha known for releasing innovative light novels and experimental fiction, including Nisio Isin’s Monogatari series.
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D.
Tsutaya Books
Tsutaya Books is a stylish Japanese bookstore chain known for its curated selection of books, magazines, music, and lifestyle goods, often housed in architecturally distinctive spaces that blend retail with cultural experience.
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E.
Dengeki Bunko
Dengeki Bunko is a Japanese light novel imprint of ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks), known for publishing popular series such as Sword Art Online and A Certain Magical Index.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
manga publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| awards |
Kodansha Manga Award
NERFINISHED
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Various literary prizes via imprints ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| distributes |
children's books
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educational books ⓘ light novels ⓘ magazines ⓘ manga ⓘ novels ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
educational content
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literary fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ popular entertainment ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Dainihon Yūbenkai-Kodansha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Seiji Noma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
Bluebacks
NERFINISHED
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KC Deluxe NERFINISHED ⓘ Kodansha Bunko NERFINISHED ⓘ Kodansha Comics NERFINISHED ⓘ Kodansha USA Publishing NERFINISHED ⓘ Morning KC NERFINISHED ⓘ Vertical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOnlineService |
Comic Days
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Magazine Pocket NERFINISHED ⓘ Palcy NERFINISHED ⓘ Pixiv-based collaborations ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
King Records (historical association)
NERFINISHED
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Kodansha Comics NERFINISHED ⓘ Kodansha USA Publishing NERFINISHED ⓘ Vertical, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
book publishing
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digital publishing ⓘ magazine publishing ⓘ manga publishing ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| locationCity | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished |
Attack on Titan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fairy Tail NERFINISHED ⓘ Hajime no Ippo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sailor Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Quintessential Quintuplets NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo Revengers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesInTerritory |
Asia
NERFINISHED
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Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Noma family interests ⓘ |
| publishes |
ARIA
NERFINISHED
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Afternoon NERFINISHED ⓘ BE・LOVE NERFINISHED ⓘ Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ Dessert NERFINISHED ⓘ Evening NERFINISHED ⓘ FRaU NERFINISHED ⓘ Gendai NERFINISHED ⓘ Good! Afternoon NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunzō NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiss NERFINISHED ⓘ Monthly Shonen Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ Nakayoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ Shincho-type literary works via imprints ⓘ Shūkan Gendai NERFINISHED ⓘ Weekly Shōnen Magazine 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: Kodansha Description of subject: Kodansha is a major Japanese publishing company best known for producing and distributing popular manga, novels, and magazines worldwide.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kodansha headquarters