Hiroki Kuroda
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Hiroki Kuroda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher best known for his successful career in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiroki Kuroda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4984500 — 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: Hiroki Kuroda Context triple: [Hiroshima Toyo Carp, notablePlayer, Hiroki Kuroda]
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A.
Tatsunori Hara
Tatsunori Hara is a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former Yomiuri Giants star known for leading both his club and Japan’s national team to multiple championships.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Toshiki Kaifu
Toshiki Kaifu was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991, leading the country during the early post–Cold War period and the aftermath of the economic bubble.
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E.
Ichirō Matsui
Ichirō Matsui is a Japanese politician and former governor of Osaka Prefecture, best known as a leading figure in regional reform politics and as a co-founder of the Nippon Ishin no Kai 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: Hiroki Kuroda Target entity description: Hiroki Kuroda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher best known for his successful career in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.
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A.
Tatsunori Hara
Tatsunori Hara is a prominent Japanese baseball manager and former Yomiuri Giants star known for leading both his club and Japan’s national team to multiple championships.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Toshiki Kaifu
Toshiki Kaifu was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991, leading the country during the early post–Cold War period and the aftermath of the economic bubble.
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E.
Ichirō Matsui
Ichirō Matsui is a Japanese politician and former governor of Osaka Prefecture, best known as a leading figure in regional reform politics and as a co-founder of the Nippon Ishin no Kai party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
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human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ professional athlete ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor |
standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers
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standout seasons with the New York Yankees ⓘ successful career in Major League Baseball ⓘ successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| familyName | Kuroda ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional baseball
ⓘ
sports ⓘ |
| givenName | Hiroki ⓘ |
| hasPlayedIn |
Japan
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Major League Baseball
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Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
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Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ |
| name | Hiroki Kuroda ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 黒田 博樹 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
career with Hiroshima Toyo Carp
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career with Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ career with New York Yankees ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball player
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professional baseball pitcher ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| sportingDiscipline | professional baseball ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
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: Hiroki Kuroda Description of subject: Hiroki Kuroda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher best known for his successful career in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including standout seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.