Hideo Kojima
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Japanese person
human
producer
screenwriter
video game designer
video game director
video game writer
Hideo Kojima is a renowned Japanese video game designer, writer, and director best known for creating the Metal Gear series and for his cinematic, narrative-driven approach to game development.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hideo Kojima canonical | 120 |
| Hideo Kojima (as a fictional concept) | 1 |
| 小島秀夫 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408292 — 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)
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Target entity: Hideo Kojima Context triple: [Death Stranding, director, Hideo Kojima]
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Minami Kojima
Minami Kojima is one of the small, uninhabited islets in the disputed Senkaku Islands chain in the East China Sea.
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Katsuya Nomura
Katsuya Nomura was a legendary Japanese baseball catcher and manager, renowned for his strategic acumen, long NPB career, and multiple championship titles.
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is a legendary Japanese video game designer and Nintendo executive best known as the creator of iconic franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong.
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Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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Fusajiro Yamauchi
Fusajiro Yamauchi was a Japanese entrepreneur best known for establishing the company that would evolve into the global video game giant Nintendo.
- 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: Hideo Kojima Target entity description: Hideo Kojima is a renowned Japanese video game designer, writer, and director best known for creating the Metal Gear series and for his cinematic, narrative-driven approach to game development.
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A.
Minami Kojima
Minami Kojima is one of the small, uninhabited islets in the disputed Senkaku Islands chain in the East China Sea.
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B.
Katsuya Nomura
Katsuya Nomura was a legendary Japanese baseball catcher and manager, renowned for his strategic acumen, long NPB career, and multiple championship titles.
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C.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is a legendary Japanese video game designer and Nintendo executive best known as the creator of iconic franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong.
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D.
Shigeru Umebayashi
Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer best known internationally for his evocative film scores, particularly in collaborations with directors like Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
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E.
Fusajiro Yamauchi
Fusajiro Yamauchi was a Japanese entrepreneur best known for establishing the company that would evolve into the global video game giant Nintendo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Hideo Kojima Description of subject: Hideo Kojima is a renowned Japanese video game designer, writer, and director best known for creating the Metal Gear series and for his cinematic, narrative-driven approach to game development.
Referenced by (122)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hideo Kojima
subject linked to:
Metal Gear Solid (as Kojima-led team at Konami prior to independence)
subject linked to:
Metal Gear Solid (as Kojima-led team at Konami prior to independence)
subject linked to:
Metal Gear Solid (as Kojima-led team at Konami prior to independence)
subject linked to:
Metal Gear Solid (as Kojima-led team at Konami prior to independence)
subject linked to:
Metal Gear Solid (as Kojima-led team at Konami prior to independence)
subject linked to:
Kenichiro Imaizumi (former)
subject linked to:
Twitter account @KojiPro2015