34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)
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34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) is the jersey number famously worn by longtime Chunichi Dragons left-handed pitcher Masahiro Yamamoto, which the team retired in his honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955148 — 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: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) Context triple: [Chunichi Dragons, hasRetiredNumber, 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)]
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
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C.
Yasuhiro
Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
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D.
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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E.
Hideo Saito
Hideo Saito was a prominent Japanese cellist and conductor renowned as a pioneering music educator who trained many leading conductors, including Seiji Ozawa.
- 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: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) Target entity description: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) is the jersey number famously worn by longtime Chunichi Dragons left-handed pitcher Masahiro Yamamoto, which the team retired in his honor.
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
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C.
Yasuhiro
Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
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D.
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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E.
Hideo Saito
Hideo Saito was a prominent Japanese cellist and conductor renowned as a pioneering music educator who trained many leading conductors, including Seiji Ozawa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
retired jersey number
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uniform number ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlayer | Masahiro Yamamoto ⓘ |
| basedInCityOfTeam | Nagoya ⓘ |
| basedInPrefectureOfTeam | Aichi Prefecture ⓘ |
| category | retired numbers in Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfTeam | Japan ⓘ |
| homeBallparkTeam | Nagoya Dome ⓘ |
| honoreeNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| honors | retired in honor of Masahiro Yamamoto ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 34 ⓘ |
| jerseyType | Chunichi Dragons uniform ⓘ |
| league | Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the longtime jersey number of Masahiro Yamamoto ⓘ |
| positionOfHonoree | pitcher ⓘ |
| retiredBy | Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| retiredNumberFor | Masahiro Yamamoto ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| sportType | professional baseball ⓘ |
| status | retired number ⓘ |
| team | Chunichi Dragons ⓘ |
| throwingHandOfHonoree | left-handed ⓘ |
| usedByFranchise |
Chunichi Dragons organization
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linked to:
Chunichi Dragons
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| wornBy | Masahiro Yamamoto ⓘ |
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: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) Description of subject: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) is the jersey number famously worn by longtime Chunichi Dragons left-handed pitcher Masahiro Yamamoto, which the team retired in his honor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.