Kodama Kenji
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Kodama Kenji is a Japanese anime director best known for his work on series such as City Hunter and Detective Conan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kodama Kenji canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9161038 — 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: Kodama Kenji Context triple: [Kodama, hasNotableBearer, Kodama Kenji]
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A.
Kodama Tetsuya
Kodama Tetsuya is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
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B.
Kodama Kyūichi
Kodama Kyūichi was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat who served in several high-ranking government and administrative posts in the early 20th century.
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C.
Kodama Kiyoshi
Kodama Kiyoshi is a Japanese individual notable for bearing the surname Kodama, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are not well documented in major English-language sources.
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D.
Kodama Gentarō
Kodama Gentarō was a Japanese general and statesman who served as Governor-General of Taiwan, playing a key role in establishing Japanese colonial administration there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Genjuro Kibagami
Genjuro Kibagami is a recurring anti-hero and rival swordsman in SNK’s Samurai Shodown fighting game series, known for his ruthless demeanor and powerful iaido-based fighting style.
- 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: Kodama Kenji Target entity description: Kodama Kenji is a Japanese anime director best known for his work on series such as City Hunter and Detective Conan.
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A.
Kodama Tetsuya
Kodama Tetsuya is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kodama.
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B.
Kodama Kyūichi
Kodama Kyūichi was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat who served in several high-ranking government and administrative posts in the early 20th century.
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C.
Kodama Kiyoshi
Kodama Kiyoshi is a Japanese individual notable for bearing the surname Kodama, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are not well documented in major English-language sources.
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D.
Kodama Gentarō
Kodama Gentarō was a Japanese general and statesman who served as Governor-General of Taiwan, playing a key role in establishing Japanese colonial administration there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Genjuro Kibagami
Genjuro Kibagami is a recurring anti-hero and rival swordsman in SNK’s Samurai Shodown fighting game series, known for his ruthless demeanor and powerful iaido-based fighting style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anime director
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Case Closed (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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City Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter ’91 NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter: The Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Detective Conan (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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film direction ⓘ television direction ⓘ |
| genre |
action anime
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crime anime ⓘ mystery anime ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing City Hunter anime adaptations
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directing Detective Conan TV episodes ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Case Closed
NERFINISHED
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City Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter ’91 NERFINISHED ⓘ City Hunter: The Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Detective Conan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
anime director
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film director ⓘ |
| workLocation | Japan 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: Kodama Kenji Description of subject: Kodama Kenji is a Japanese anime director best known for his work on series such as City Hunter and Detective Conan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.