Heitaro Kimura
E333557
Imperial Japanese Army officer
Japanese general
World War II military personnel
convicted war criminal
person
Heitaro Kimura was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army who was convicted as a Class A war criminal for his role in World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heitaro Kimura canonical | 2 |
| Heitarō Kimura | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1417153 — 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: Heitaro Kimura Context triple: [International Military Tribunal for the Far East, notableDefendant, Heitaro Kimura]
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A.
Sakai Takashi
Sakai Takashi was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces during the early Pacific War, including the invasion of Hong Kong.
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B.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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C.
Hirofumi Yoshimura
Hirofumi Yoshimura is a Japanese politician who serves as the governor of Osaka Prefecture and is a prominent figure in regional reform politics.
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D.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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E.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
- 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: Heitaro Kimura Target entity description: Heitaro Kimura was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army who was convicted as a Class A war criminal for his role in World War II.
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A.
Sakai Takashi
Sakai Takashi was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces during the early Pacific War, including the invasion of Hong Kong.
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B.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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C.
Hirofumi Yoshimura
Hirofumi Yoshimura is a Japanese politician who serves as the governor of Osaka Prefecture and is a prominent figure in regional reform politics.
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D.
Eishiro Saito
Eishiro Saito was a prominent Japanese businessman and sports administrator who notably led the organizing committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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E.
Makoto Yamashita
Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army officer
ⓘ
Japanese general ⓘ World War II military personnel ⓘ convicted war criminal ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| charge | Class A war crimes ⓘ |
| conflict |
Second Sino-Japanese War
ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
World War II ⓘ |
| convictedBy | International Military Tribunal for the Far East ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
crimes against peace ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Shōwa period
ⓘ
linked to:
Showa era
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Imperial Japanese Army General Staff ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being convicted as a Class A war criminal after World War II
ⓘ
role in Japanese military operations in Burma during World War II ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Japanese occupation of Burma
ⓘ
Pacific War ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander in Burma
ⓘ
general in the Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| roleIn | administration of Japanese-occupied Burma ⓘ |
| subjectOf | war crimes trial in Tokyo ⓘ |
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: Heitaro Kimura Description of subject: Heitaro Kimura was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army who was convicted as a Class A war criminal for his role in World War II.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Heitaro Kimura
linked to: Heitaro Kimura