Toshio Suzuki
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Toshio Suzuki is a prominent Japanese film producer best known for his longtime work with Studio Ghibli on acclaimed animated films such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Toshio Suzuki canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8919230 — 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: Toshio Suzuki Context triple: [Suzuki, hasNotableBearer, Toshio Suzuki]
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A.
Goro Suzuki
Goro Suzuki, better known by his stage name Jack Soo, was a Japanese-American actor and comedian best remembered for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television series "Barney Miller."
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B.
Zenko Suzuki
Zenko Suzuki was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in the early 1980s, leading the Liberal Democratic Party during a period of economic growth and shifting international relations.
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C.
Takeshi Honda
Takeshi Honda is a Japanese figure skater known as one of his country’s leading men’s singles competitors in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning multiple international medals and national titles.
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D.
Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-developing the Suzuki coupling reaction, a pivotal method in organic synthesis.
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E.
Koji Suzuki
Koji Suzuki is a Japanese horror novelist best known internationally as the creator of the Ring series.
- 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: Toshio Suzuki Target entity description: Toshio Suzuki is a prominent Japanese film producer best known for his longtime work with Studio Ghibli on acclaimed animated films such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro."
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A.
Goro Suzuki
Goro Suzuki, better known by his stage name Jack Soo, was a Japanese-American actor and comedian best remembered for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television series "Barney Miller."
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B.
Zenko Suzuki
Zenko Suzuki was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in the early 1980s, leading the Liberal Democratic Party during a period of economic growth and shifting international relations.
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C.
Takeshi Honda
Takeshi Honda is a Japanese figure skater known as one of his country’s leading men’s singles competitors in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning multiple international medals and national titles.
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D.
Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-developing the Suzuki coupling reaction, a pivotal method in organic synthesis.
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E.
Koji Suzuki
Koji Suzuki is a Japanese horror novelist best known internationally as the creator of the Ring series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese person
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anime producer ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| activeIn | Japanese animation ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (as producer of Spirited Away) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1948-08-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Aichi Prefecture
NERFINISHED
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Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nagoya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Keio University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Studio Ghibli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | animated film ⓘ |
| industry | anime industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | Studio Ghibli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Toshio Suzuki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 鈴木敏夫 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Howl's Moving Castle
NERFINISHED
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My Neighbor Totoro NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Mononoke NERFINISHED ⓘ Spirited Away NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
anime producer
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film producer ⓘ studio executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Studio Ghibli
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president of Studio Ghibli ⓘ producer at Studio Ghibli ⓘ |
| previousEmployer | Tokuma Shoten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | editor at Animage ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Animage magazine
NERFINISHED
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Howl's Moving Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiki's Delivery Service NERFINISHED ⓘ My Neighbor Totoro NERFINISHED ⓘ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ Ponyo NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Mononoke NERFINISHED ⓘ Spirited Away NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boy and the Heron NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tale of the Princess Kaguya NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wind Rises NERFINISHED ⓘ When Marnie Was There NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Hayao Miyazaki
NERFINISHED
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Isao Takahata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Toshio Suzuki Description of subject: Toshio Suzuki is a prominent Japanese film producer best known for his longtime work with Studio Ghibli on acclaimed animated films such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.