Hideyoshi Obata
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Hideyoshi Obata was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, known for leading Japanese forces in the Pacific theater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hideyoshi Obata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3610058 — 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: Hideyoshi Obata Context triple: [Invasion of Guam, commander, Hideyoshi Obata]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Mineichi Koga
Mineichi Koga was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who succeeded Isoroku Yamamoto as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
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D.
Sanjo Ohashi
Sanjo Ohashi is a historic bridge in Kyoto, Japan, long regarded as a key terminus of the Tōkaidō road and an important crossing point in the city.
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E.
Ōyama Iwao
Ōyama Iwao was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese field marshal and statesman who played key leadership roles in Japan’s early modern wars and military modernization.
- 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: Hideyoshi Obata Target entity description: Hideyoshi Obata was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, known for leading Japanese forces in the Pacific theater.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Mineichi Koga
Mineichi Koga was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who succeeded Isoroku Yamamoto as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
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D.
Sanjo Ohashi
Sanjo Ohashi is a historic bridge in Kyoto, Japan, long regarded as a key terminus of the Tōkaidō road and an important crossing point in the city.
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E.
Ōyama Iwao
Ōyama Iwao was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese field marshal and statesman who played key leadership roles in Japan’s early modern wars and military modernization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Imperial Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| familyName | Obata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Hideyoshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding Japanese forces in the Pacific theater during World War II ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Axis powers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
NERFINISHED
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Pacific War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hideyoshi Obata Description of subject: Hideyoshi Obata was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, known for leading Japanese forces in the Pacific theater.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.