Sōryū
E4285
Sōryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sōryū canonical | 12 |
| Soryu | 8 |
| Sōryū (Blue Dragon) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13950 — 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: Sōryū Context triple: [Battle of Midway, involvedShipJapan, Sōryū]
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A.
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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B.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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C.
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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D.
Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy was the maritime military force of the Empire of Japan, renowned for its powerful carrier fleet and major role in naval battles across the Pacific during World War II.
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E.
Hinomaru
Hinomaru is the national flag of Japan, featuring a red circle centered on a white field symbolizing the rising sun.
- 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: Sōryū Target entity description: Sōryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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A.
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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B.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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C.
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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D.
Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy was the maritime military force of the Empire of Japan, renowned for its powerful carrier fleet and major role in naval battles across the Pacific during World War II.
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E.
Hinomaru
Hinomaru is the national flag of Japan, featuring a red circle centered on a white field symbolizing the rising sun.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy ship
ⓘ
aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| aircraftTypeCarried |
Aichi D3A dive bombers
ⓘ
surface form:
Aichi D3A
Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters ⓘ
surface form:
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers ⓘ
surface form:
Nakajima B5N
|
| airGroupSize | about 57 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
127 mm dual-purpose guns
ⓘ
25 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| attackedBy |
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
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surface form:
USS Yorktown air group
|
| beam | about 21.3 m ⓘ |
| builder | Kure Naval Arsenal ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking | bombs from US Navy carrier aircraft ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1937-12-29 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 1,100 officers and men ⓘ |
| dateSunk | 1942-06-04 ⓘ |
| designFeature |
island superstructure on starboard side
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two hangar decks ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | about 19,800 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 16,200 tons ⓘ |
| draft | about 7.6 m ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
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interwar period ⓘ |
| flagshipFor | Carrier Division 2 (at times) ⓘ |
| hullNumber | Sōryū self-link ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1934-11-20 ⓘ |
| launched | 1935-12-23 ⓘ |
| length | about 227.5 m ⓘ |
| locationSunk | northwest of Midway Atoll ⓘ |
| namesake | blue dragon ⓘ |
| navy | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| operationAtPearlHarbor | launched aircraft against US targets on Oahu ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
attack on Pearl Harbor
ⓘ
surface form:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway ⓘ Indian Ocean raid ⓘ Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ⓘ
surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
|
| predecessorInClass | none ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| shaftCount | 4 ⓘ |
| shipClass | Sōryū-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| status | wreck ⓘ |
| successorInClass | Hiryū ⓘ |
| sunkIn | Battle of Midway ⓘ |
| topSpeed | about 34.5 knots ⓘ |
| warTheater | Pacific War ⓘ |
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: Sōryū Description of subject: Sōryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Soryu
this entity surface form:
Soryu
subject surface form:
Nakajima B5N
this entity surface form:
Soryu
this entity surface form:
Soryu
this entity surface form:
Soryu
this entity surface form:
Soryu
subject surface form:
Hiryū
this entity surface form:
Soryu
subject surface form:
Hiryū
subject surface form:
Mitsubishi A5M
this entity surface form:
Soryu
this entity surface form:
Sōryū (Blue Dragon)