Showa L2D
E1346790
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Showa L2D was a Japanese license-built military transport aircraft based on the Douglas DC-3, produced by Showa and Nakajima for use by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Showa L2D canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18877405 — 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: Showa L2D Context triple: [Douglas DC-3, notableVariant, Showa L2D]
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A.
Sho-Go 1
Sho-Go 1 was a major Japanese naval operation in World War II intended to counter the American invasion of the Philippines by luring and destroying U.S. carrier forces.
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B.
SHO
SHO is the IATA airport code for King Mswati III International Airport in Eswatini.
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C.
Shōbō
Shōbō was a Heian-period Buddhist monk and scholar credited with establishing the influential Daigo-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.
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D.
Seiyō Jijō
Seiyō Jijō is an influential 19th-century work by Fukuzawa Yukichi that introduced and explained Western society, institutions, and ideas to a Japanese audience during the Meiji period.
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E.
Sho
Sho is a given name commonly used in Japan, often for males, and can be written with various kanji characters that convey different meanings.
- 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: Showa L2D Target entity description: Showa L2D was a Japanese license-built military transport aircraft based on the Douglas DC-3, produced by Showa and Nakajima for use by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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A.
Sho-Go 1
Sho-Go 1 was a major Japanese naval operation in World War II intended to counter the American invasion of the Philippines by luring and destroying U.S. carrier forces.
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B.
SHO
SHO is the IATA airport code for King Mswati III International Airport in Eswatini.
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C.
Shōbō
Shōbō was a Heian-period Buddhist monk and scholar credited with establishing the influential Daigo-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.
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D.
Seiyō Jijō
Seiyō Jijō is an influential 19th-century work by Fukuzawa Yukichi that introduced and explained Western society, institutions, and ideas to a Japanese audience during the Meiji period.
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E.
Sho
Sho is a given name commonly used in Japan, often for males, and can be written with various kanji characters that convey different meanings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.