Nagato-class battleship
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The Nagato-class battleships were a pair of Japanese dreadnoughts, including the famous Nagato, notable as some of the world’s first battleships armed with 16-inch guns and serving as powerful flagships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nagato-class battleship canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4859747 — 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)
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Target entity: Nagato-class battleship Context triple: [Tosa-class battleship, precededBy, Nagato-class battleship]
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A.
Shikishima-class battleship
The Shikishima-class battleship was a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy built in the late 19th century, notable for their role in the Russo-Japanese War.
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B.
Tosa-class battleship
The Tosa-class battleship was a planned class of Japanese capital ships in the early 1920s, cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty and notable for influencing later Imperial Japanese Navy battleship designs.
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C.
Fusō-class battleship
The Fusō-class battleship was a pair of Imperial Japanese Navy dreadnoughts built in the 1910s, notable for their heavy armament, distinctive pagoda masts, and service in World War II.
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Fuji-class battleship
The Fuji-class battleships were Japan’s first modern pre-dreadnought battleships, built in Britain in the late 19th century and marking a key step in the Imperial Japanese Navy’s rise as a major naval power.
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E.
Satsuma-class battleship
The Satsuma-class battleship was an early 20th-century class of Imperial Japanese Navy pre-dreadnought/semidreadnought battleships that marked Japan’s first domestically built capital ships and a key step in its emergence as a major naval power.
- 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: Nagato-class battleship Target entity description: The Nagato-class battleships were a pair of Japanese dreadnoughts, including the famous Nagato, notable as some of the world’s first battleships armed with 16-inch guns and serving as powerful flagships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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A.
Shikishima-class battleship
The Shikishima-class battleship was a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy built in the late 19th century, notable for their role in the Russo-Japanese War.
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B.
Tosa-class battleship
The Tosa-class battleship was a planned class of Japanese capital ships in the early 1920s, cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty and notable for influencing later Imperial Japanese Navy battleship designs.
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C.
Fusō-class battleship
The Fusō-class battleship was a pair of Imperial Japanese Navy dreadnoughts built in the 1910s, notable for their heavy armament, distinctive pagoda masts, and service in World War II.
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D.
Fuji-class battleship
The Fuji-class battleships were Japan’s first modern pre-dreadnought battleships, built in Britain in the late 19th century and marking a key step in the Imperial Japanese Navy’s rise as a major naval power.
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E.
Satsuma-class battleship
The Satsuma-class battleship was an early 20th-century class of Imperial Japanese Navy pre-dreadnought/semidreadnought battleships that marked Japan’s first domestically built capital ships and a key step in its emergence as a major naval power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battleship class
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dreadnought battleship class ⓘ |
| antiAircraftArmament | multiple light AA guns (varied over time) ⓘ |
| armament | 410 mm (16.1 in) main guns ⓘ |
| armamentType | naval artillery ⓘ |
| armorScheme | all-or-nothing armor layout ⓘ |
| category |
Capital ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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Dreadnought battleship classes ⓘ World War II battleship classes ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Empire of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedAs | capital ship ⓘ |
| designedBy | Imperial Japanese Navy technical department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor | fleet engagements ⓘ |
| designedToCounter | contemporary US and British battleships ⓘ |
| designedUnder | Japanese naval expansion programs of the 1910s ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 32,000 tons standard
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over 39,000 tons full load after modernization ⓘ |
| era | World War I era design ⓘ |
| fateOfClassMember |
Mutsu exploded and sank in 1943 due to an internal magazine explosion
NERFINISHED
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Nagato survived World War II and was used in Operation Crossroads nuclear tests NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flagshipFor | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Nagato) before Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Japanese battleship Mutsu
NERFINISHED
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Japanese battleship Nagato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullType | steel hull ⓘ |
| mainBatteryConfiguration | 8 × 410 mm guns in 4 twin turrets ⓘ |
| modernizedIn | 1930s ⓘ |
| modification |
enhanced anti-aircraft armament
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improved armor protection ⓘ reconstructed superstructure ⓘ upgraded fire-control systems ⓘ |
| navalArchitectureType | all-big-gun battleship ⓘ |
| navalTreatyContext | Washington Naval Treaty era capital ship ⓘ |
| notableFeature | first battleships in the world designed with 16-inch main guns ⓘ |
| notableFor | symbol of Japanese naval power in the interwar period ⓘ |
| numberOfShips | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | Ise-class battleship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRole | battle line unit ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| secondaryArmament | 140 mm guns ⓘ |
| servicePeriod |
World War II
NERFINISHED
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interwar period ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Kaga-class battleship (planned as battleships)
NERFINISHED
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Tosa-class battleship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| topSpeed | about 26.5 knots as built ⓘ |
| usedAs | flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Nagato-class battleship Description of subject: The Nagato-class battleships were a pair of Japanese dreadnoughts, including the famous Nagato, notable as some of the world’s first battleships armed with 16-inch guns and serving as powerful flagships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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