Masi Oka
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actor
digital effects artist
film actor
human
producer
television actor
visual effects artist
voice actor
Masi Oka is a Japanese-American actor and digital effects artist best known for his role as Hiro Nakamura on the television series "Heroes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Masi Oka canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6162111 — 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: Masi Oka Context triple: [Get Smart, starring, Masi Oka]
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A.
Katsuya Okada
Katsuya Okada is a Japanese politician who has served as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan and as Deputy Prime Minister.
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B.
Shingo Takatsu
Shingo Takatsu is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher and closer, best known for his success in Nippon Professional Baseball and a stint in Major League Baseball with the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets.
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C.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Hiroshi Sakurazaka is a Japanese science fiction author best known internationally for his novel "All You Need Is Kill," which inspired the film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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D.
Hiro Matsuda
Hiro Matsuda was a renowned Japanese professional wrestler and legendary trainer known for shaping the careers of major stars in the wrestling industry.
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E.
Masaki Aiba
Masaki Aiba is a Japanese singer, actor, and television personality best known as a member of the popular boy band Arashi.
- 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: Masi Oka Target entity description: Masi Oka is a Japanese-American actor and digital effects artist best known for his role as Hiro Nakamura on the television series "Heroes."
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A.
Katsuya Okada
Katsuya Okada is a Japanese politician who has served as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan and as Deputy Prime Minister.
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B.
Shingo Takatsu
Shingo Takatsu is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher and closer, best known for his success in Nippon Professional Baseball and a stint in Major League Baseball with the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets.
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C.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Hiroshi Sakurazaka is a Japanese science fiction author best known internationally for his novel "All You Need Is Kill," which inspired the film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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D.
Hiro Matsuda
Hiro Matsuda was a renowned Japanese professional wrestler and legendary trainer known for shaping the careers of major stars in the wrestling industry.
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E.
Masaki Aiba
Masaki Aiba is a Japanese singer, actor, and television personality best known as a member of the popular boy band Arashi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
digital effects artist ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ television actor ⓘ visual effects artist ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Friends with Benefits
NERFINISHED
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Get Smart NERFINISHED ⓘ Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawaii Five-0 NERFINISHED ⓘ Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ Heroes Reborn NERFINISHED ⓘ Scrubs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Masayori Oka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Dr. Max Bergman
NERFINISHED
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Hiro Nakamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Japan
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1974-12-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brown University ⓘ |
| employer | Industrial Light & Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Oka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ visual effects ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Masayori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Masi Oka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese-American ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hawaii Five-0
NERFINISHED
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Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ Hiro Nakamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ visual effects artist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| studied |
computer science
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
2000s
ⓘ
2010s ⓘ |
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: Masi Oka Description of subject: Masi Oka is a Japanese-American actor and digital effects artist best known for his role as Hiro Nakamura on the television series "Heroes."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.