Tiger Tanaka
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Tiger Tanaka is the head of the Japanese Secret Service and a key ally to James Bond in the film and novel "You Only Live Twice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiger Tanaka canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1031729 — 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: Tiger Tanaka Context triple: [You Only Live Twice, character, Tiger Tanaka]
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A.
Hideki Matsui
Hideki Matsui is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger who became a star outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, most notably with the New York Yankees.
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B.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is an elite Japanese right-handed pitcher, renowned for his dominant performances in Nippon Professional Baseball and subsequent move to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Koji Uehara
Koji Uehara is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher best known as an elite closer in Major League Baseball, particularly for his dominant postseason performance with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki is a legendary Japanese professional baseball outfielder renowned for his record-breaking hitting, speed, and defensive prowess in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
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E.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
- 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: Tiger Tanaka Target entity description: Tiger Tanaka is the head of the Japanese Secret Service and a key ally to James Bond in the film and novel "You Only Live Twice."
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A.
Hideki Matsui
Hideki Matsui is a former Japanese professional baseball slugger who became a star outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, most notably with the New York Yankees.
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B.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is an elite Japanese right-handed pitcher, renowned for his dominant performances in Nippon Professional Baseball and subsequent move to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Koji Uehara
Koji Uehara is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher best known as an elite closer in Major League Baseball, particularly for his dominant postseason performance with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki is a legendary Japanese professional baseball outfielder renowned for his record-breaking hitting, speed, and defensive prowess in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
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E.
Tamon Yamaguchi
Tamon Yamaguchi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and carrier task force commander during World War II, best known for his role and death in the Battle of Midway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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intelligence agent ⓘ |
| adaptedTo | Eon Productions James Bond film series ⓘ |
| affiliation | Japanese Secret Service ⓘ |
| allyOf | James Bond ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
action film
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spy fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
MI6 (through cooperation)
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linked to:
Secret Intelligence Service
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| basedOn | character from Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Ian Fleming ⓘ |
| employer |
Japanese government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Japan
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| enemyOf |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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SPECTRE ⓘ
linked to:
Spectre
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| fictionalUniverseOrigin | James Bond literary series ⓘ |
| filmPortrayalBy | Tetsurō Tamba ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
You Only Live Twice (1964 novel)
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linked to:
You Only Live Twice
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| loyalty | Japan ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse | James Bond ⓘ |
| notableFor |
assisting James Bond in Japan
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leading Japanese Secret Service operations against SPECTRE ⓘ |
| occupation | head of the Japanese Secret Service ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head of Japanese intelligence ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
Bond ally
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intelligence chief ⓘ |
| workFeaturedIn |
You Only Live Twice (film)
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linked to:
You Only Live Twice
You Only Live Twice (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
You Only Live Twice
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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: Tiger Tanaka Description of subject: Tiger Tanaka is the head of the Japanese Secret Service and a key ally to James Bond in the film and novel "You Only Live Twice."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.