Sutomo
E155278
Indonesian independence activist
Indonesian nationalist
Muslim
human
member of the People’s Representative Council
member of the Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly
military personnel
politician
radio orator
revolutionary
Sutomo, better known as Bung Tomo, was an Indonesian nationalist leader and radio orator who became a symbol of resistance during the Indonesian National Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1333076 — 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: Sutomo Context triple: [Battle of Surabaya, notableCommander, Sutomo]
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A.
Hartono Dharsono
Hartono Dharsono was an Indonesian military officer and diplomat who became the inaugural Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), helping shape the organization's early development.
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B.
Kusno Sosrodihardjo
Kusno Sosrodihardjo is the birth name of Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia and a leading figure in the country’s independence movement.
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C.
Sudirman
Sudirman was a prominent Indonesian military commander and national hero who played a key role in leading guerrilla resistance against Dutch forces during Indonesia’s struggle for independence.
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D.
Panji Tohjaya
Panji Tohjaya was a 13th-century Javanese king who briefly ruled the Singhasari Kingdom in East Java amid dynastic conflict and political intrigue.
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E.
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro was an Indonesian geographer and government official best known as the stepfather of U.S. President Barack Obama.
- 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: Sutomo Target entity description: Sutomo, better known as Bung Tomo, was an Indonesian nationalist leader and radio orator who became a symbol of resistance during the Indonesian National Revolution.
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A.
Hartono Dharsono
Hartono Dharsono was an Indonesian military officer and diplomat who became the inaugural Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), helping shape the organization's early development.
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B.
Kusno Sosrodihardjo
Kusno Sosrodihardjo is the birth name of Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia and a leading figure in the country’s independence movement.
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C.
Sudirman
Sudirman was a prominent Indonesian military commander and national hero who played a key role in leading guerrilla resistance against Dutch forces during Indonesia’s struggle for independence.
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D.
Panji Tohjaya
Panji Tohjaya was a 13th-century Javanese king who briefly ruled the Singhasari Kingdom in East Java amid dynastic conflict and political intrigue.
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E.
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro was an Indonesian geographer and government official best known as the stepfather of U.S. President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indonesian independence activist
ⓘ
Indonesian nationalist ⓘ Muslim ⓘ human ⓘ member of the People’s Representative Council ⓘ member of the Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly ⓘ military personnel ⓘ politician ⓘ radio orator ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bung Thomo
ⓘ
Bung Tomo ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Hero of Indonesia ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
East Java
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Surabaya ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack (reported) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Indonesia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-10-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-10-07 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Javanese people ⓘ |
| givenName | Sutomo self-link ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
Battle of Surabaya
ⓘ
Indonesian National Revolution ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Bung ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Indonesian ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| movement |
Indonesian National Revolution
ⓘ
Indonesian independence movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Javanese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
mobilizing popular resistance against Allied and Dutch forces
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radio speeches during the Indonesian National Revolution ⓘ role in the Battle of Surabaya ⓘ |
| notableWork | radio speeches calling for jihad and resistance in 1945 ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ radio broadcaster ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dutch East Indies
ⓘ
East Java ⓘ Surabaya ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Miqat
ⓘ
surface form:
Padang Arafah
Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the People’s Representative Council of Indonesia
ⓘ
member of the Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Surabaya ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| yearOfBurial | 1981 ⓘ |
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: Sutomo Description of subject: Sutomo, better known as Bung Tomo, was an Indonesian nationalist leader and radio orator who became a symbol of resistance during the Indonesian National Revolution.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Soetomo