Kirei Kotomine
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Kirei Kotomine is a conflicted priest and manipulative overseer of the Holy Grail War in the Fate series, known for his nihilistic philosophy and fascination with human suffering.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kirei Kotomine canonical | 5 |
| Kirei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9001338 — 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: Kirei Kotomine Context triple: [Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, featuresCharacter, Kirei Kotomine]
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A.
Murata Makoto
Murata Makoto is a Japanese computer scientist best known for his work on XML technologies and for designing the RELAX schema language.
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B.
Makoto
Makoto is a common Japanese given name used for people of any gender, often associated with sincerity or truth.
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C.
Kirito
Kirito is the main black-clad swordsman hero of the anime and light novel series Sword Art Online, known for his exceptional skill in virtual reality MMORPGs and his role in clearing deadly game worlds.
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D.
Saitō Makoto
Saitō Makoto was a Japanese admiral and statesman who served as Governor-General of Korea and later as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Shōwa period.
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E.
Kaoru Ushijima
Kaoru Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Ushijima.
- 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: Kirei Kotomine Target entity description: Kirei Kotomine is a conflicted priest and manipulative overseer of the Holy Grail War in the Fate series, known for his nihilistic philosophy and fascination with human suffering.
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A.
Murata Makoto
Murata Makoto is a Japanese computer scientist best known for his work on XML technologies and for designing the RELAX schema language.
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B.
Makoto
Makoto is a common Japanese given name used for people of any gender, often associated with sincerity or truth.
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C.
Kirito
Kirito is the main black-clad swordsman hero of the anime and light novel series Sword Art Online, known for his exceptional skill in virtual reality MMORPGs and his role in clearing deadly game worlds.
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D.
Saitō Makoto
Saitō Makoto was a Japanese admiral and statesman who served as Governor-General of Korea and later as Prime Minister of Japan during the early Shōwa period.
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E.
Kaoru Ushijima
Kaoru Ushijima is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Ushijima.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fate series character
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antagonist ⓘ fictional character ⓘ magus ⓘ priest ⓘ |
| ability |
Command Seals usage
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expert hand-to-hand combat ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Holy Church
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Mage’s Association (formally, as mediator) ⓘ
linked to:
Mage’s Association
|
| appearsIn |
Fate route of Fate/stay night
ⓘ
linked to:
Fate route
Fate/Zero ⓘ Fate/hollow ataraxia ⓘ Fate/stay night ⓘ Heaven’s Feel route of Fate/stay night ⓘ
linked to:
Heaven’s Feel route
Unlimited Blade Works route of Fate/stay night ⓘ
linked to:
Unlimited Blade Works route
|
| causeOfDeath |
killed by Emiya Shirou in Unlimited Blade Works route
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mortally wounded by Emiya Shirou in Heaven’s Feel route ⓘ |
| createdBy | Kinoko Nasu ⓘ |
| enemy |
Emiya Kiritsugu
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linked to:
Kiritsugu Emiya
Emiya Shirou ⓘ
linked to:
Shirou Emiya
Matou Kirei’s various Masters in the Fifth War ⓘ Tohsaka Rin ⓘ
linked to:
Rin Tohsaka
|
| eyeColor | golden brown ⓘ |
| familyName | Kotomine ⓘ |
| father | Risei Kotomine ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kirei
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linked to:
Kirei Kotomine
|
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| kills |
Bazett Fraga McRemitz (in Fate/hollow ataraxia backstory)
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Risei Kotomine ⓘ Tokiomi Tohsaka ⓘ |
| notableEvent | survives Fourth Holy Grail War and inherits Gilgamesh’s contract ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
conflicted faith
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emotional emptiness ⓘ fascination with human suffering ⓘ manipulative personality ⓘ sadistic curiosity ⓘ skilled liar ⓘ |
| occupation |
Executor of the Church
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overseer of the Holy Grail War ⓘ priest ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
Fifth Holy Grail War
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linked to:
Fate/Zero
Fourth Holy Grail War ⓘ
linked to:
Fate/Zero
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| partOfFranchise | Fate ⓘ |
| philosophy | nihilism ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity (Catholic Church affiliation, fictionalized) ⓘ |
| roleInFateStayNight | main antagonist ⓘ |
| roleInFateZero | supporting antagonist ⓘ |
| servant |
Gilgamesh
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Lancer (Fate/Zero, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne) ⓘ |
| spouse | Claudia Hortensia ⓘ |
| stepDaughter | Carén Hortensia ⓘ |
| studentOf | Tokiomi Tohsaka ⓘ |
| teacher | Tokiomi Tohsaka ⓘ |
| voiceActorJapanese | Joji Nakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weapon |
Black Keys
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linked to:
The Black Keys
|
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: Kirei Kotomine Description of subject: Kirei Kotomine is a conflicted priest and manipulative overseer of the Holy Grail War in the Fate series, known for his nihilistic philosophy and fascination with human suffering.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kirei Kotomine