Naoto Ohshima
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Naoto Ohshima is a Japanese video game artist and designer best known for creating the original character designs for Sonic the Hedgehog and other classic Sega titles.
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| Naoto Ohshima canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10048298 — 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: Naoto Ohshima Context triple: [Sonic CD, director, Naoto Ohshima]
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A.
Kazuhiko Nishijima
Kazuhiko Nishijima was a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, which helped classify subatomic particles and advance the quark model in particle physics.
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B.
Koichi Hayashida
Koichi Hayashida is a Japanese video game designer best known for his prominent work on Nintendo’s Super Mario series, particularly the 3D platformer entries.
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C.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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D.
Koichi Satō
Koichi Satō is a prominent Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater.
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E.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
- 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: Naoto Ohshima Target entity description: Naoto Ohshima is a Japanese video game artist and designer best known for creating the original character designs for Sonic the Hedgehog and other classic Sega titles.
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A.
Kazuhiko Nishijima
Kazuhiko Nishijima was a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, which helped classify subatomic particles and advance the quark model in particle physics.
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B.
Koichi Hayashida
Koichi Hayashida is a Japanese video game designer best known for his prominent work on Nintendo’s Super Mario series, particularly the 3D platformer entries.
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C.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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D.
Koichi Satō
Koichi Satō is a prominent Japanese actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater.
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E.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.