Makoto Kobayashi
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Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Makoto Kobayashi canonical | 11 |
| Kobayashi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T653732 — 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: Makoto Kobayashi Context triple: [Nagoya University, hasNobelLaureate, Makoto Kobayashi]
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A.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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B.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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C.
Kyuji Fujikawa
Kyuji Fujikawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known as a dominant closer in Nippon Professional Baseball and a longtime star for the Hanshin Tigers.
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D.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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E.
Muraji Shimomura
Muraji Shimomura was a Japanese architect known for his role in designing major governmental structures, most notably contributing to the creation of Japan’s National Diet Building.
- 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: Makoto Kobayashi Target entity description: Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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A.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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B.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
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C.
Kyuji Fujikawa
Kyuji Fujikawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher best known as a dominant closer in Nippon Professional Baseball and a longtime star for the Hanshin Tigers.
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D.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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E.
Muraji Shimomura
Muraji Shimomura was a Japanese architect known for his role in designing major governmental structures, most notably contributing to the creation of Japan’s National Diet Building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Makoto Kobayashi Description of subject: Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.