Masamune Shirow
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Masamune Shirow is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the influential cyberpunk series "Ghost in the Shell."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Masamune Shirow canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10195141 — 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: Masamune Shirow Context triple: [Ghost in the Shell (2017 film), storyBy, Masamune Shirow]
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A.
Ryo Sakazaki
Ryo Sakazaki is a fictional Japanese martial artist and main protagonist of SNK’s Art of Fighting series, known for his Kyokugenryu Karate style and appearances in The King of Fighters games.
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B.
Murata Makoto
Murata Makoto is a Japanese computer scientist best known for his work on XML technologies and for designing the RELAX schema language.
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C.
Kaoru Ushijima
Kaoru Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Ushijima.
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D.
Kirei Kotomine
Kirei Kotomine is a conflicted priest and manipulative overseer of the Holy Grail War in the Fate series, known for his nihilistic philosophy and fascination with human suffering.
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E.
Ushijima Mitsuru
Ushijima Mitsuru was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for commanding Japanese forces during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.
- 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: Masamune Shirow Target entity description: Masamune Shirow is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the influential cyberpunk series "Ghost in the Shell."
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A.
Ryo Sakazaki
Ryo Sakazaki is a fictional Japanese martial artist and main protagonist of SNK’s Art of Fighting series, known for his Kyokugenryu Karate style and appearances in The King of Fighters games.
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B.
Murata Makoto
Murata Makoto is a Japanese computer scientist best known for his work on XML technologies and for designing the RELAX schema language.
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C.
Kaoru Ushijima
Kaoru Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Ushijima.
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D.
Kirei Kotomine
Kirei Kotomine is a conflicted priest and manipulative overseer of the Holy Grail War in the Fate series, known for his nihilistic philosophy and fascination with human suffering.
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E.
Ushijima Mitsuru
Ushijima Mitsuru was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for commanding Japanese forces during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book creator
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manga artist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| birthName | Masanori Ota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| created |
Appleseed
ⓘ
Black Magic ⓘ Dominion Tank Police ⓘ Galgrease ⓘ Ghost in the Shell ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell (anime franchise)
Intron Depot ⓘ Orion ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
character design
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illustration ⓘ manga ⓘ |
| genre |
cyberpunk
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military science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationOfWork |
Appleseed (1988 OVA)
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linked to:
Appleseed
Appleseed (2004 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Appleseed
Dominion Tank Police (OVA) ⓘ
linked to:
Dominion Tank Police
Ghost in the Shell (1995 film) ⓘ Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ⓘ |
| influenced |
cyberpunk media
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science fiction anime ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
cyberpunk anime
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cyberpunk manga ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Masamune Shirow ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex world-building
ⓘ
detailed mechanical designs ⓘ philosophical themes in science fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Appleseed
ⓘ
Dominion ⓘ Ghost in the Shell ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell (anime franchise)
|
| occupation |
illustrator
ⓘ
manga artist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Masamune Shirow ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
artificial intelligence
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cybernetics ⓘ future warfare ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ |
| workMedium |
art books
ⓘ
tankōbon manga ⓘ |
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: Masamune Shirow Description of subject: Masamune Shirow is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the influential cyberpunk series "Ghost in the Shell."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.