Robert M. G. Emmett
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Robert M. G. Emmett was the lead prosecutor in the post–World War II Homma trial, which tried Japanese General Masaharu Homma for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert M. G. Emmett canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7255250 — 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: Robert M. G. Emmett Context triple: [Homma trial, prosecutor, Robert M. G. Emmett]
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A.
William S. O'Brien
William S. O'Brien was a 19th-century American mining magnate best known as one of the four "Bonanza Kings" who amassed a fortune from the Comstock Lode silver mines in Nevada.
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B.
William X. O'Brien
William X. O'Brien was an influential Irish trade unionist and political organizer who played a key role in shaping Ireland’s labor movement and early 20th-century politics.
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C.
Henry O'Neill
Henry O'Neill was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
John O’Leary
John O’Leary was a prominent 19th-century Irish nationalist and Fenian leader who became a symbol of Irish republican resistance through his activism, imprisonment, and later influence on cultural nationalism.
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E.
John J. Gilligan
John J. Gilligan was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Ohio in the early 1970s and later as director of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
- 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: Robert M. G. Emmett Target entity description: Robert M. G. Emmett was the lead prosecutor in the post–World War II Homma trial, which tried Japanese General Masaharu Homma for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
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A.
William S. O'Brien
William S. O'Brien was a 19th-century American mining magnate best known as one of the four "Bonanza Kings" who amassed a fortune from the Comstock Lode silver mines in Nevada.
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B.
William X. O'Brien
William X. O'Brien was an influential Irish trade unionist and political organizer who played a key role in shaping Ireland’s labor movement and early 20th-century politics.
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C.
Henry O'Neill
Henry O'Neill was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
John O’Leary
John O’Leary was a prominent 19th-century Irish nationalist and Fenian leader who became a symbol of Irish republican resistance through his activism, imprisonment, and later influence on cultural nationalism.
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E.
John J. Gilligan
John J. Gilligan was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Ohio in the early 1970s and later as director of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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war crimes trial ⓘ |
| appliesToEvent | Bataan Death March ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| defendant | Masaharu Homma ⓘ |
| employer |
United States military authorities (post–World War II war crimes prosecutions)
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linked to:
United States military authorities
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| fieldOfWork |
military justice
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war crimes prosecution ⓘ |
| follows | World War II ⓘ |
| location | Philippines ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command responsibility related to the Bataan Death March
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serving as lead prosecutor in the post–World War II trial of General Masaharu Homma ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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prosecutor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Homma trial ⓘ |
| prosecutor | Robert M. G. Emmett ⓘ |
| role | lead prosecutor in the Homma trial ⓘ |
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: Robert M. G. Emmett Description of subject: Robert M. G. Emmett was the lead prosecutor in the post–World War II Homma trial, which tried Japanese General Masaharu Homma for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Robert M. G. Emmett