Akiyuki Shinbo
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Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese anime director and visual stylist known for his distinctive, experimental direction on series such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica and numerous Shaft studio productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Akiyuki Shinbo canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9001417 — 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: Akiyuki Shinbo Context triple: [Puella Magi Madoka Magica, director, Akiyuki Shinbo]
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A.
Ōyama Iwao
Ōyama Iwao was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese field marshal and statesman who played key leadership roles in Japan’s early modern wars and military modernization.
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B.
Masayuki Kakefu
Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Seimon Ishibashi
Seimon Ishibashi is a historic stone bridge at the main entrance to Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, often photographed alongside the adjacent Nijūbashi Bridge.
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D.
Kirino Toshiaki
Kirino Toshiaki was a prominent samurai and military leader of the late Edo and early Meiji periods, best known as one of Saigō Takamori’s closest allies and a leading figure in the anti-government Satsuma Rebellion.
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E.
Yukio Edano
Yukio Edano is a Japanese politician and former Chief Cabinet Secretary who became a prominent opposition leader as the head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
- 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: Akiyuki Shinbo Target entity description: Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese anime director and visual stylist known for his distinctive, experimental direction on series such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica and numerous Shaft studio productions.
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A.
Ōyama Iwao
Ōyama Iwao was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese field marshal and statesman who played key leadership roles in Japan’s early modern wars and military modernization.
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B.
Masayuki Kakefu
Masayuki Kakefu is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger and third baseman best known for his starring role with the Hanshin Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Seimon Ishibashi
Seimon Ishibashi is a historic stone bridge at the main entrance to Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, often photographed alongside the adjacent Nijūbashi Bridge.
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D.
Kirino Toshiaki
Kirino Toshiaki was a prominent samurai and military leader of the late Edo and early Meiji periods, best known as one of Saigō Takamori’s closest allies and a leading figure in the anti-government Satsuma Rebellion.
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E.
Yukio Edano
Yukio Edano is a Japanese politician and former Chief Cabinet Secretary who became a prominent opposition leader as the head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Akiyuki Shinbo Description of subject: Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese anime director and visual stylist known for his distinctive, experimental direction on series such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica and numerous Shaft studio productions.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.