Motoko Kusanagi
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anime character
cyborg
fictional character
film character
manga character
protagonist
television character
Motoko Kusanagi is a highly skilled, cybernetically enhanced counter-cyberterrorism operative and the central protagonist of the Ghost in the Shell franchise.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Motoko Kusanagi canonical | 10 |
| Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell franchise) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10195160 — 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: Motoko Kusanagi Context triple: [Ghost in the Shell (2017 film), mainCharacter, Motoko Kusanagi]
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A.
Rieko Kodama
Rieko Kodama was a pioneering Japanese video game designer and producer at Sega, best known for her influential work on classic role-playing games and for being one of the first prominent women in the game industry.
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B.
Misato
Misato is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, known as part of the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
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C.
Misato
Misato was a former municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, that was incorporated into the present-day city of Okinawa.
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D.
Miki Motoko
Miki Motoko was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki and served as a political spouse active in social and public life.
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E.
Kodama Naoko
Kodama Naoko is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
- 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: Motoko Kusanagi Target entity description: Motoko Kusanagi is a highly skilled, cybernetically enhanced counter-cyberterrorism operative and the central protagonist of the Ghost in the Shell franchise.
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A.
Rieko Kodama
Rieko Kodama was a pioneering Japanese video game designer and producer at Sega, best known for her influential work on classic role-playing games and for being one of the first prominent women in the game industry.
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B.
Misato
Misato is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, known as part of the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
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C.
Misato
Misato was a former municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, that was incorporated into the present-day city of Okinawa.
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D.
Miki Motoko
Miki Motoko was the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki and served as a political spouse active in social and public life.
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E.
Kodama Naoko
Kodama Naoko is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anime character
ⓘ
cyborg ⓘ fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ manga character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Public Security Section 9 ⓘ |
| alias |
Major
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The Major ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ghost in the Shell
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linked to:
Ghost in the Shell (anime franchise)
Ghost in the Shell (1995 film) ⓘ Ghost in the Shell (2017 film) ⓘ Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence ⓘ Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Ghost in the Shell: Arise ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell: Arise (in some regions)
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ⓘ Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society
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| combatStyle | tactical special operations ⓘ |
| commandPosition | field leader of Section 9 ⓘ |
| creator | Masamune Shirow ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Ghost in the Shell (manga, 1989)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell (manga)
|
| franchise |
Ghost in the Shell
ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost in the Shell (anime franchise)
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | cyberpunk ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
expert hacking skills
ⓘ
hand-to-hand combat proficiency ⓘ marksmanship ⓘ tactical leadership ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cyberbrain
ⓘ
enhanced reflexes ⓘ enhanced strength ⓘ full-body cybernetic prosthesis ⓘ thermoptic camouflage ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
human–machine integration
ⓘ
identity and consciousness ⓘ |
| medium |
anime
ⓘ
live-action film ⓘ manga ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | philosophical reflections on self and soul (ghost) ⓘ |
| occupation |
counter-cyberterrorism operative
ⓘ
public security officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Scarlett Johansson ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central protagonist of the Ghost in the Shell franchise ⓘ |
| setting | futuristic cyberpunk Japan ⓘ |
| species | human (cybernetically enhanced) ⓘ |
| voiceActor |
Atsuko Tanaka
ⓘ
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn ⓘ |
| worksFor | Japanese government (fictional) ⓘ |
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: Motoko Kusanagi Description of subject: Motoko Kusanagi is a highly skilled, cybernetically enhanced counter-cyberterrorism operative and the central protagonist of the Ghost in the Shell franchise.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Motoko Kusanagi