15 (Masaaki Iseki)
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15 (Masaaki Iseki) is the retired jersey number of former Chunichi Dragons player Masaaki Iseki, honored by the Japanese professional baseball team for his significant contributions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 15 (Masaaki Iseki) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955146 — 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: 15 (Masaaki Iseki) Context triple: [Chunichi Dragons, hasRetiredNumber, 15 (Masaaki Iseki)]
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A.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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C.
Noda Kōichi
Noda Kōichi is a Japanese architect best known for creating the iconic Kobe Port Tower, a landmark of Kobe’s waterfront skyline.
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D.
Hyakutake Yuji
Hyakutake Yuji is a Japanese amateur astronomer best known for discovering Comet Hyakutake, one of the brightest and most widely observed comets of the 20th century.
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E.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
- 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: 15 (Masaaki Iseki) Target entity description: 15 (Masaaki Iseki) is the retired jersey number of former Chunichi Dragons player Masaaki Iseki, honored by the Japanese professional baseball team for his significant contributions.
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A.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Senichi Hoshino
Senichi Hoshino was a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former pitcher, best known for revitalizing multiple Nippon Professional Baseball teams and leading them to championship success.
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C.
Noda Kōichi
Noda Kōichi is a Japanese architect best known for creating the iconic Kobe Port Tower, a landmark of Kobe’s waterfront skyline.
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D.
Hyakutake Yuji
Hyakutake Yuji is a Japanese amateur astronomer best known for discovering Comet Hyakutake, one of the brightest and most widely observed comets of the 20th century.
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E.
Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese socialist politician who served as Japan’s first postwar prime minister and the first from a socialist party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
honor
ⓘ
retired jersey number ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chunichi Dragons
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Masaaki Iseki ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| honors | Masaaki Iseki ⓘ |
| honorsRole | former Chunichi Dragons player ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 15 ⓘ |
| league | Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| reasonForHonor | significant contributions to the Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
Chunichi Dragons organization
ⓘ
linked to:
Chunichi Dragons
|
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| team | Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| typeOfRecognition | team-level jersey retirement ⓘ |
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: 15 (Masaaki Iseki) Description of subject: 15 (Masaaki Iseki) is the retired jersey number of former Chunichi Dragons player Masaaki Iseki, honored by the Japanese professional baseball team for his significant contributions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.