Yamato
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Yamato refers to the dominant historical ethnic group and cultural core of Japan, traditionally associated with the imperial lineage and Shinto deities such as Amaterasu.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamato canonical | 11 |
| Yamato (Japan) | 3 |
| Yamato Japan | 3 |
| Yamato Japanese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1395245 — 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: Yamato Context triple: [Amaterasu, ethnicContext, Yamato]
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A.
Yamato
Yamato was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever constructed.
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B.
Musashi
Musashi was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, one of the largest and most heavily armed ever built, serving as a flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy before being sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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D.
Hiryū
Hiryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, best known for its crucial role and eventual sinking during the Battle of Midway in World War II.
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E.
IJN battleship Yamashiro
IJN battleship Yamashiro was a Japanese Fuso-class dreadnought battleship that served in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait in World War II.
- 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: Yamato Target entity description: Yamato refers to the dominant historical ethnic group and cultural core of Japan, traditionally associated with the imperial lineage and Shinto deities such as Amaterasu.
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A.
Yamato
Yamato was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever constructed.
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B.
Musashi
Musashi was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, one of the largest and most heavily armed ever built, serving as a flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy before being sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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D.
Hiryū
Hiryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, best known for its crucial role and eventual sinking during the Battle of Midway in World War II.
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E.
IJN battleship Yamashiro
IJN battleship Yamashiro was a Japanese Fuso-class dreadnought battleship that served in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Yamato Description of subject: Yamato refers to the dominant historical ethnic group and cultural core of Japan, traditionally associated with the imperial lineage and Shinto deities such as Amaterasu.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yamato Japan
this entity surface form:
Yamato Japan
this entity surface form:
Yamato Japanese
this entity surface form:
Yamato Japan
this entity surface form:
Yamato (Japan)
this entity surface form:
Yamato (Japan)
this entity surface form:
Yamato (Japan)