Yoji Shinkawa
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Yoji Shinkawa is a Japanese artist and character designer best known for his distinctive visual style on Hideo Kojima’s games, particularly the Metal Gear series and Death Stranding.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yoji Shinkawa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408295 — 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: Yoji Shinkawa Context triple: [Death Stranding, artist, Yoji Shinkawa]
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A.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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B.
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.
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C.
Tetsuharu Kawakami
Tetsuharu Kawakami was a legendary Japanese baseball first baseman and manager, famed for his hitting prowess and for leading the Yomiuri Giants to multiple Japan Series championships.
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D.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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E.
Shigeo Nagashima
Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
- 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: Yoji Shinkawa Target entity description: Yoji Shinkawa is a Japanese artist and character designer best known for his distinctive visual style on Hideo Kojima’s games, particularly the Metal Gear series and Death Stranding.
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A.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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B.
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.
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C.
Tetsuharu Kawakami
Tetsuharu Kawakami was a legendary Japanese baseball first baseman and manager, famed for his hitting prowess and for leading the Yomiuri Giants to multiple Japan Series championships.
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D.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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E.
Shigeo Nagashima
Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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character designer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Hideo Kojima ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| employer |
Kojima Productions
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Konami ⓘ |
| familyName | Shinkawa ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
character design
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mechanical design ⓘ video game art ⓘ |
| genre |
military fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Yoji ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Western comic art
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traditional Japanese ink painting ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Yoji Shinkawa ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 新川洋司 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
art direction on Death Stranding
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character and mecha designs in Metal Gear series ⓘ collaboration with Hideo Kojima ⓘ distinctive ink-brush illustration style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Album cover illustrations for Japanese bands
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Book cover illustrations for Japanese novels ⓘ Call of Duty: Black Ops III Japanese cover art ⓘ Death Stranding ⓘ Death Stranding key art ⓘ Figure and statue concept art for Metal Gear characters ⓘ Front Mission alternative cover art ⓘ Godzilla: Resurgence promotional art ⓘ Ludens (Kojima Productions mascot) ⓘ Metal Gear RAY design ⓘ Metal Gear REX design ⓘ Metal Gear Solid ⓘ Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty ⓘ Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater ⓘ Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ⓘ Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes ⓘ Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain ⓘ Metal Gear Solid character illustrations ⓘ
linked to:
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker ⓘ Monster Hunter: World collaboration art ⓘ Pacific Rim: Uprising Japanese poster art ⓘ Policenauts ⓘ Sahelanthropus design ⓘ Snatcher ⓘ The Art of Death Stranding ⓘ The Art of Metal Gear Solid I–IV ⓘ The Art of Metal Gear Solid V ⓘ
linked to:
The Art of Metal Gear Solid I–IV
The Art of Metal Gear Solid book illustrations ⓘ Zone of the Enders ⓘ Zone of the Enders mecha illustrations ⓘ
linked to:
Zone of the Enders
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner ⓘ
linked to:
Zone of the Enders
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| occupation |
artist
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character designer ⓘ illustrator ⓘ mecha designer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yoji Shinkawa Description of subject: Yoji Shinkawa is a Japanese artist and character designer best known for his distinctive visual style on Hideo Kojima’s games, particularly the Metal Gear series and Death Stranding.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.