Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi
E245065
Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer who commanded carrier forces during World War II, notably leading the 2nd Carrier Division in the Pacific War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2145043 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi Context triple: [2nd Carrier Division, notableCommander, Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi]
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A.
Rear Admiral Kakuji Kakuta
Rear Admiral Kakuji Kakuta was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and carrier task force commander during World War II, known for leading air operations in several major Pacific battles.
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B.
Rear Admiral Takatsugu Jojima
Rear Admiral Takatsugu Jojima was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and air commander in the Pacific Theater during World War II, noted for leading Japanese air operations in major late-war naval engagements.
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C.
Vice Admiral Hiroaki Abe
Vice Admiral Hiroaki Abe was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer best known for commanding a task force during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II, where his indecisive actions contributed to a major Japanese setback.
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D.
Admiral Seiichi Itō
Admiral Seiichi Itō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy officer best known for leading the battleship Yamato’s final, doomed sortie in 1945.
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E.
Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō
Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and fleet commander in World War II, noted for leading major surface forces in the Solomon Islands campaign and other key Pacific naval operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi Target entity description: Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer who commanded carrier forces during World War II, notably leading the 2nd Carrier Division in the Pacific War.
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A.
Rear Admiral Kakuji Kakuta
Rear Admiral Kakuji Kakuta was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and carrier task force commander during World War II, known for leading air operations in several major Pacific battles.
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B.
Rear Admiral Takatsugu Jojima
Rear Admiral Takatsugu Jojima was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and air commander in the Pacific Theater during World War II, noted for leading Japanese air operations in major late-war naval engagements.
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C.
Vice Admiral Hiroaki Abe
Vice Admiral Hiroaki Abe was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer best known for commanding a task force during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II, where his indecisive actions contributed to a major Japanese setback.
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D.
Admiral Seiichi Itō
Admiral Seiichi Itō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy officer best known for leading the battleship Yamato’s final, doomed sortie in 1945.
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E.
Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō
Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and fleet commander in World War II, noted for leading major surface forces in the Solomon Islands campaign and other key Pacific naval operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy officer
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person ⓘ |
| conflict |
Pacific War
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World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
Imperial Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| fieldOfWork |
carrier aviation
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naval warfare ⓘ |
| memberOf | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Rear Admiral ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Japanese carrier forces during World War II
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leadership of the 2nd Carrier Division in the Pacific War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of the 2nd Carrier Division ⓘ |
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: Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi Description of subject: Rear Admiral Sueo Obayashi was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer who commanded carrier forces during World War II, notably leading the 2nd Carrier Division in the Pacific War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.