Shigeru Ban
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Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect renowned for his innovative use of materials like paper and cardboard and for designing socially conscious, disaster-relief structures as well as major cultural buildings worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shigeru Ban canonical | 17 |
| Shigeru Ban Architects | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1515015 — 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: Shigeru Ban Context triple: [Centre Pompidou-Metz, architect, Shigeru Ban]
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A.
Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito is a renowned Japanese architect celebrated for his innovative, fluid designs that blend technology, nature, and urban life.
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B.
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki is a renowned Japanese architect known for his influential and eclectic postmodern designs that bridge Eastern and Western architectural traditions.
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C.
Kazuyo Sejima
Kazuyo Sejima is a renowned Japanese architect known for her minimalist, light-filled designs and as a founding partner of the firm SANAA.
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D.
Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki is a renowned Japanese architect known for his modernist designs and thoughtful integration of technology, urban context, and public space.
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E.
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando is a renowned Japanese architect celebrated for his minimalist concrete structures that harmonize light, space, and nature.
- 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: Shigeru Ban Target entity description: Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect renowned for his innovative use of materials like paper and cardboard and for designing socially conscious, disaster-relief structures as well as major cultural buildings worldwide.
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A.
Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito is a renowned Japanese architect celebrated for his innovative, fluid designs that blend technology, nature, and urban life.
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B.
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki is a renowned Japanese architect known for his influential and eclectic postmodern designs that bridge Eastern and Western architectural traditions.
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C.
Kazuyo Sejima
Kazuyo Sejima is a renowned Japanese architect known for her minimalist, light-filled designs and as a founding partner of the firm SANAA.
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D.
Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki is a renowned Japanese architect known for his modernist designs and thoughtful integration of technology, urban context, and public space.
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E.
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando is a renowned Japanese architect celebrated for his minimalist concrete structures that harmonize light, space, and nature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Shigeru Ban Description of subject: Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect renowned for his innovative use of materials like paper and cardboard and for designing socially conscious, disaster-relief structures as well as major cultural buildings worldwide.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shigeru Ban
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Greg Colbert
linked to: Shigeru Ban
linked to: Shigeru Ban