Japanese 14th Army
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The Japanese 14th Army was an Imperial Japanese Army formation that led the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 14th Army (Imperial Japanese Army) | 2 |
| Japanese 14th Army canonical | 2 |
| 14th Army (Japan) | 1 |
| Japanese Fourteenth Army | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2063433 — 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: Japanese 14th Army Context triple: [Battle of Corregidor (1942), attackingForce, Japanese 14th Army]
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A.
Japanese Seventeenth Army
The Japanese Seventeenth Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation that defended parts of the Southwest Pacific, notably Borneo, against advancing Allied forces in 1945.
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Japanese Fifteenth Army
The Japanese Fifteenth Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation primarily responsible for conducting operations in Burma and opposing Allied forces in the China-Burma-India theater.
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C.
Japanese 38th Army
The Japanese 38th Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation active in Southeast Asia, particularly noted for its role in occupying and later seizing control of French Indochina.
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D.
Japanese 35th Army
The Japanese 35th Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation that defended the southern Philippines, particularly during the later stages of the Pacific campaign.
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E.
Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army
The Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army was a World War II Japanese field army that conducted operations in southern China and Southeast Asia, including the invasion of Hong Kong.
- 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: Japanese 14th Army Target entity description: The Japanese 14th Army was an Imperial Japanese Army formation that led the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
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A.
Japanese Seventeenth Army
The Japanese Seventeenth Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation that defended parts of the Southwest Pacific, notably Borneo, against advancing Allied forces in 1945.
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B.
Japanese Fifteenth Army
The Japanese Fifteenth Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation primarily responsible for conducting operations in Burma and opposing Allied forces in the China-Burma-India theater.
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C.
Japanese 38th Army
The Japanese 38th Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation active in Southeast Asia, particularly noted for its role in occupying and later seizing control of French Indochina.
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D.
Japanese 35th Army
The Japanese 35th Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation that defended the southern Philippines, particularly during the later stages of the Pacific campaign.
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E.
Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army
The Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army was a World War II Japanese field army that conducted operations in southern China and Southeast Asia, including the invasion of Hong Kong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Japanese 14th Army Description of subject: The Japanese 14th Army was an Imperial Japanese Army formation that led the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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