I Want to Be a Shellfish
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"I Want to Be a Shellfish" is a Japanese anti-war drama, originally written for television by screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, that explores the moral anguish of a soldier facing execution for war crimes he did not commit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I Want to Be a Shellfish canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10896102 — 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: I Want to Be a Shellfish Context triple: [Shinobu Hashimoto, notableWork, I Want to Be a Shellfish]
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A.
The World Is My Oyster
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B.
The Fish
"The Fish" is a celebrated poem by Elizabeth Bishop that offers a detailed, contemplative encounter with a caught fish, exploring themes of observation, empathy, and the beauty of the natural world.
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C.
The Fish
The Fish is the cautious, rule-abiding household pet in Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" who constantly warns against the Cat's chaotic antics.
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D.
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"Words I Might Have Ate" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their early album "Kerplunk."
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E.
The Fish Can Sing
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- 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: I Want to Be a Shellfish Target entity description: "I Want to Be a Shellfish" is a Japanese anti-war drama, originally written for television by screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, that explores the moral anguish of a soldier facing execution for war crimes he did not commit.
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A.
The World Is My Oyster
"The World Is My Oyster" is an experimental, atmospheric track by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, best known as the introductory piece to their hit song "Welcome to the Pleasuredome."
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B.
The Fish
"The Fish" is a celebrated poem by Elizabeth Bishop that offers a detailed, contemplative encounter with a caught fish, exploring themes of observation, empathy, and the beauty of the natural world.
-
C.
The Fish
The Fish is the cautious, rule-abiding household pet in Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" who constantly warns against the Cat's chaotic antics.
-
D.
Words I Might Have Ate
"Words I Might Have Ate" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their early album "Kerplunk."
-
E.
The Fish Can Sing
The Fish Can Sing is a celebrated coming-of-age novel by Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, set in early 20th-century Reykjavík and known for its lyrical style and gentle satire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Japanese anti-war drama
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Japanese television drama ⓘ television film ⓘ |
| antiWar | true ⓘ |
| basedOnEvent | aftermath of World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator | Shinobu Hashimoto ⓘ |
| depicts |
execution of soldiers
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psychological torment of an accused soldier ⓘ war crimes trials ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-war film
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drama ⓘ war drama ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
capital punishment
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injustice ⓘ moral anguish ⓘ responsibility of soldiers ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| moralQuestion | individual guilt versus systemic responsibility in war ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a Japanese soldier facing execution for war crimes he did not commit ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| originalMedium | television ⓘ |
| period | 20th century Japanese television drama ⓘ |
| perspective | Japanese soldier ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Shinobu Hashimoto ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Shinobu Hashimoto ⓘ |
| setting | post–World War II Japan ⓘ |
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: I Want to Be a Shellfish Description of subject: "I Want to Be a Shellfish" is a Japanese anti-war drama, originally written for television by screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, that explores the moral anguish of a soldier facing execution for war crimes he did not commit.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.