Shohei Shigematsu
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Shohei Shigematsu is a Japanese architect and partner at OMA known for leading innovative cultural and educational projects in North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shohei Shigematsu canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2044538 — 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: Shohei Shigematsu Context triple: [Milstein Hall, architect, Shohei Shigematsu]
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A.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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B.
Hiro Yamamoto
Hiro Yamamoto is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden.
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C.
Shigeyoshi Inoue
Shigeyoshi Inoue was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, noted for his leadership in early Pacific naval operations.
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D.
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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E.
Tachū Naitō
Tachū Naitō was a prominent Japanese structural engineer renowned for designing major towers and high-rise structures in Japan, most famously Tokyo Tower.
- 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: Shohei Shigematsu Target entity description: Shohei Shigematsu is a Japanese architect and partner at OMA known for leading innovative cultural and educational projects in North America.
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A.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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B.
Hiro Yamamoto
Hiro Yamamoto is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden.
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C.
Shigeyoshi Inoue
Shigeyoshi Inoue was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, noted for his leadership in early Pacific naval operations.
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D.
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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E.
Tachū Naitō
Tachū Naitō was a prominent Japanese structural engineer renowned for designing major towers and high-rise structures in Japan, most famously Tokyo Tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese architect
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architect ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| countryOfEducation | Japan ⓘ |
| designApproach |
context-driven
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experimental ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Waseda University ⓘ |
| employer | OMA ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cultural architecture projects
ⓘ
educational architecture projects ⓘ exhibition design ⓘ innovative cultural projects in North America ⓘ innovative educational projects in North America ⓘ museum design ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Office for Metropolitan Architecture ⓘ |
| name | Shohei Shigematsu ⓘ |
| nationality | Japan ⓘ |
| notableRole |
leader of OMA’s cultural work in North America
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leader of OMA’s educational work in North America ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| position | partner at OMA ⓘ |
| project |
Exhibition designs for the Venice Biennale (OMA-related)
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Faena Forum Miami Beach ⓘ National Museum of Quebec (competition work) ⓘ
linked to:
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Parc des Ateliers masterplan in Arles (OMA team) ⓘ Quebec National Film and Sound Archive (proposed) ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Asia
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| role | director of OMA New York ⓘ |
| workedWith | Rem Koolhaas ⓘ |
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: Shohei Shigematsu Description of subject: Shohei Shigematsu is a Japanese architect and partner at OMA known for leading innovative cultural and educational projects in North America.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.