Wakatoshi Ushijima
E692112
Wakatoshi Ushijima is a fictional character from the manga and anime series "Haikyuu!!", known as the powerful and stoic ace and captain of Shiratorizawa Academy's volleyball team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wakatoshi Ushijima canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4592916 — 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: Wakatoshi Ushijima Context triple: [Ushijima, hasNotableBearer, Wakatoshi Ushijima]
-
A.
Kazuyuki Ushijima
Kazuyuki Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the surname Ushijima.
-
B.
Shigetarō Shimada
Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Navy Minister and a key naval leader during World War II.
-
C.
Kiyohide Shima
Kiyohide Shima was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II who led a cruiser-destroyer force in major Pacific engagements.
-
D.
Tsutomu Kitagawa
Tsutomu Kitagawa is a Japanese suit actor best known for playing Godzilla in the franchise’s Millennium era films.
-
E.
Kiyoshi Shiga
Kiyoshi Shiga was a Japanese bacteriologist best known for discovering the dysentery-causing bacterium Shigella dysenteriae, which is named after him.
- 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: Wakatoshi Ushijima Target entity description: Wakatoshi Ushijima is a fictional character from the manga and anime series "Haikyuu!!", known as the powerful and stoic ace and captain of Shiratorizawa Academy's volleyball team.
-
A.
Kazuyuki Ushijima
Kazuyuki Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the surname Ushijima.
-
B.
Shigetarō Shimada
Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Navy Minister and a key naval leader during World War II.
-
C.
Kiyohide Shima
Kiyohide Shima was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II who led a cruiser-destroyer force in major Pacific engagements.
-
D.
Tsutomu Kitagawa
Tsutomu Kitagawa is a Japanese suit actor best known for playing Godzilla in the franchise’s Millennium era films.
-
E.
Kiyoshi Shiga
Kiyoshi Shiga was a Japanese bacteriologist best known for discovering the dysentery-causing bacterium Shigella dysenteriae, which is named after him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anime character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ manga character ⓘ |
| alignment | Shiratorizawa Academy ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Haikyuu!!
ⓘ
linked to:
Haikyu!!
|
| bodyType | tall and muscular ⓘ |
| captainOf |
Shiratorizawa Academy boys volleyball team
ⓘ
linked to:
Shiratorizawa Academy volleyball club
|
| creator | Haruichi Furudate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dominantHand | left ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyBackground | son of a professional volleyball player (in-universe) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Haikyuu!! manga
ⓘ
linked to:
Haikyu!!
|
| firstAppearanceMedium | manga ⓘ |
| franchise |
Haikyuu!!
ⓘ
linked to:
Haikyu!!
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark olive green ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| language | Japanese (in dialogue) ⓘ |
| league | Miyagi Prefecture high school volleyball ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableMatch | Karasuno vs Shiratorizawa prefectural finals ⓘ |
| notableSkill |
high offensive power
ⓘ
powerful spike ⓘ strong serve ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
member of Miyagi Prefecture representative team (youth)
ⓘ
top ace in Miyagi Prefecture ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
blunt
ⓘ
serious ⓘ stoic ⓘ |
| popularity | fan-favorite character in Haikyuu!! fandom ⓘ |
| position |
ace
ⓘ
captain ⓘ wing spiker ⓘ |
| respectedBy | teammates of Shiratorizawa Academy ⓘ |
| rivalCharacter |
Shoyo Hinata
ⓘ
linked to:
Shōyō Hinata
Tobio Kageyama ⓘ |
| rivalTeam | Karasuno High School volleyball club ⓘ |
| role | main antagonist in the Shiratorizawa arc ⓘ |
| school | Shiratorizawa Academy ⓘ |
| seriesGenre | sports ⓘ |
| seriesMedium |
anime
ⓘ
manga ⓘ |
| sport | volleyball ⓘ |
| team | Shiratorizawa Academy volleyball club ⓘ |
| trainingFocus | power-based offense ⓘ |
| universe |
Haikyuu!! universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Haikyu!!
|
| voiceActorJapanese | Katsuyuki Konishi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearLevel | third-year student at Shiratorizawa Academy ⓘ |
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: Wakatoshi Ushijima Description of subject: Wakatoshi Ushijima is a fictional character from the manga and anime series "Haikyuu!!", known as the powerful and stoic ace and captain of Shiratorizawa Academy's volleyball team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.