Kii-class battleship
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The Kii-class battleship was a planned but never completed class of Japanese fast battleships intended to combine heavy armament with high speed in the interwar Imperial Japanese Navy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kii-class battleship canonical | 2 |
| Kii-class battleship (planned) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4859748 — 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: Kii-class battleship Context triple: [Tosa-class battleship, followedBy, Kii-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.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Nagato-class battleship
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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E.
IJN battleship Yamashiro
IJN battleship Yamashiro was a Japanese Fuso-class dreadnought battleship that served in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait in World War II.
- 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: Kii-class battleship Target entity description: The Kii-class battleship was a planned but never completed class of Japanese fast battleships intended to combine heavy armament with high speed in the interwar 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.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Nagato-class battleship
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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E.
IJN battleship Yamashiro
IJN battleship Yamashiro was a Japanese Fuso-class dreadnought battleship that served in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy warship class
ⓘ
planned battleship class ⓘ |
| armamentCategory |
anti-aircraft guns
ⓘ
main battery guns ⓘ secondary battery guns ⓘ |
| cancellationReason | naval treaty limitations and changing priorities ⓘ |
| classification | capital ship ⓘ |
| constructionStatus | cancelled before completion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial Japan
|
| designedBy | Japanese naval architects ⓘ |
| designedFor |
heavy armament
ⓘ
high speed ⓘ |
| designGoal | combine battleship protection with battlecruiser speed ⓘ |
| designInfluence |
Amagi-class battlecruiser
ⓘ
Tosa-class battleship ⓘ |
| designPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| intendedArmamentType | large-caliber naval guns ⓘ |
| intendedRole | fast battleship ⓘ |
| intendedSpeedClass | fast capital ship ⓘ |
| intendedTheater | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| navalDoctrineContext | Japanese 8-8 fleet program ⓘ |
| navy | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| neverLaidDown | true ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| plannedHullType | all-steel hull ⓘ |
| plannedNumberOfShips | 4 ⓘ |
| plannedPropulsionType | steam turbines ⓘ |
| plannedSuccessorTo | earlier Japanese battleship designs ⓘ |
| status | never completed ⓘ |
| treatyContext | Washington Naval Treaty era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Kii-class battleship Description of subject: The Kii-class battleship was a planned but never completed class of Japanese fast battleships intended to combine heavy armament with high speed in the interwar Imperial Japanese Navy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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