Hideo Nomo
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Hideo Nomo is a pioneering Japanese pitcher who became a Major League Baseball star in the 1990s, helping open the door for future Japanese players in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hideo Nomo canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3561482 — 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: Hideo Nomo Context triple: [Japan national baseball team, famousPlayer, Hideo Nomo]
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A.
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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B.
Min Tanaka
Min Tanaka is a renowned Japanese dancer and actor known for his avant-garde butoh performances and roles in international films.
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C.
Tiger Tanaka
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Nomo Target entity description: Hideo Nomo is a pioneering Japanese pitcher who became a Major League Baseball star in the 1990s, helping open the door for future Japanese players in the United States.
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A.
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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B.
Min Tanaka
Min Tanaka is a renowned Japanese dancer and actor known for his avant-garde butoh performances and roles in international films.
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C.
Tiger Tanaka
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Hideo Nomo Description of subject: Hideo Nomo is a pioneering Japanese pitcher who became a Major League Baseball star in the 1990s, helping open the door for future Japanese players in the United States.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.