Gedde Watanabe
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Gedde Watanabe is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Sixteen Candles" and for voicing Ling in Disney's "Mulan."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gedde Watanabe canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8776380 — 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: Gedde Watanabe Context triple: [Vamp, starring, Gedde Watanabe]
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A.
Akira Watanabe
Akira Watanabe is a Japanese special effects artist and designer best known for creating the iconic kaiju monster Rodan in the Godzilla film franchise.
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B.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Shinji Sasaoka
Shinji Sasaoka is a former Japanese professional baseball player renowned as a standout pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League and a multiple-time recipient of its Most Valuable Player award.
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D.
Nagisa Oshima
Nagisa Oshima was a pioneering and controversial Japanese film director known for his politically charged, avant-garde works that challenged social and cinematic conventions.
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E.
Takeuchi Shinichiro
Takeuchi Shinichiro was a Japanese architect best known for his role in designing Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
- 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: Gedde Watanabe Target entity description: Gedde Watanabe is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Sixteen Candles" and for voicing Ling in Disney's "Mulan."
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A.
Akira Watanabe
Akira Watanabe is a Japanese special effects artist and designer best known for creating the iconic kaiju monster Rodan in the Godzilla film franchise.
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B.
Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
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C.
Shinji Sasaoka
Shinji Sasaoka is a former Japanese professional baseball player renowned as a standout pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League and a multiple-time recipient of its Most Valuable Player award.
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D.
Nagisa Oshima
Nagisa Oshima was a pioneering and controversial Japanese film director known for his politically charged, avant-garde works that challenged social and cinematic conventions.
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E.
Takeuchi Shinichiro
Takeuchi Shinichiro was a Japanese architect best known for his role in designing Tokyo’s National Diet Building, the seat of Japan’s national legislature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1955-06-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Ogden, Utah, United States
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linked to:
Ogden, Utah
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Watanabe ⓘ |
| filmRole |
Kazuhiro in Gung Ho
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Kuni in UHF ⓘ Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles ⓘ Mr. Katsuji in Gremlins 2: The New Batch ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Gary ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| name | Gedde Watanabe ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ER
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch ⓘ Gung Ho ⓘ Kim Possible ⓘ Mulan ⓘ Mulan II ⓘ Pacific Overtures ⓘ Sesame Street ⓘ Sixteen Candles ⓘ The Simpsons ⓘ The Tracey Ullman Show ⓘ UHF ⓘ Vamp ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| televisionRole | Nurse Yosh Takata in ER ⓘ |
| voiceRole |
Ling in Mulan
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Ling in Mulan II ⓘ |
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: Gedde Watanabe Description of subject: Gedde Watanabe is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Sixteen Candles" and for voicing Ling in Disney's "Mulan."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.