Michitarō Komatsubara
E393883
Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michitarō Komatsubara canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1771447 — 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: Michitarō Komatsubara Context triple: [Nomonhan Incident, commander, Michitarō Komatsubara]
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A.
Gisiro Maruyama
Gisiro Maruyama was a Japanese mathematician known for his foundational contributions to the theory and numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations.
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B.
Otozō Yamada
Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.
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C.
Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
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D.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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E.
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Jun-ichi Nishizawa was a pioneering Japanese engineer and physicist often called the "father of Japanese microelectronics" for his foundational contributions to semiconductor and optoelectronic device technology.
- 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: Michitarō Komatsubara Target entity description: Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
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A.
Gisiro Maruyama
Gisiro Maruyama was a Japanese mathematician known for his foundational contributions to the theory and numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations.
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B.
Otozō Yamada
Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.
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C.
Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
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D.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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E.
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Jun-ichi Nishizawa was a pioneering Japanese engineer and physicist often called the "father of Japanese microelectronics" for his foundational contributions to semiconductor and optoelectronic device technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army general
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human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Khalkhin Gol
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surface form:
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
Nomonhan Incident ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Imperial Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| era |
Showa era
ⓘ
surface form:
Shōwa period
|
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| memberOf | Imperial Japanese Army General Staff ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflictRole | commander of Japanese forces at Nomonhan ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
ⓘ
surface form:
Japanese–Soviet border conflicts
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| notableFor |
commanding Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan
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involvement in Japanese–Soviet relations prior to World War II ⓘ |
| notableRole | field commander at Nomonhan ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| opponent |
Mongolia
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surface form:
Mongolian People’s Republic
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese Kwantung Army ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Japanese occupation of Manchuria
ⓘ
surface form:
Japanese-occupied Manchuria
Manchukuo ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
World War II era
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ |
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: Michitarō Komatsubara Description of subject: Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.