Hiryū
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Hiryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, best known for its crucial role and eventual sinking during the Battle of Midway in World War II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiryū canonical | 7 |
| Hiryu | 1 |
| chose to go down with his ship Hiryū | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13951 — 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: Hiryū Context triple: [Battle of Midway, involvedShipJapan, Hiryū]
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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.
Sōryū
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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D.
Hinomaru
Hinomaru is the national flag of Japan, featuring a red circle centered on a white field symbolizing the rising sun.
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E.
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.
- 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: Hiryū Target entity description: Hiryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, best known for its crucial role and eventual sinking during the Battle of Midway in 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.
Sōryū
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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D.
Hinomaru
Hinomaru is the national flag of Japan, featuring a red circle centered on a white field symbolizing the rising sun.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy ship
ⓘ
aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| aircraftTypesCarried |
Aichi D3A dive bombers
ⓘ
surface form:
Aichi D3A "Val"
Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters ⓘ
surface form:
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers ⓘ
surface form:
Nakajima B5N "Kate"
|
| airGroupSize | about 70–80 aircraft (varied over time) ⓘ |
| armament |
127 mm dual-purpose guns
ⓘ
25 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| builtBy | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal ⓘ |
| casualties | hundreds of crew killed or missing at Midway ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1939-07-05 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| crewComplement | over 1,100 officers and men ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1942-06-05 ⓘ |
| designFeature |
enclosed bow
ⓘ
island superstructure on port side ⓘ |
| displacement |
about 17,300 tons (standard)
ⓘ
about 20,250 tons (full load) ⓘ |
| fate | scuttled after being fatally damaged ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-2 (IJN internal designation, not US-style) ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1936-07-08 ⓘ |
| launched | 1937-11-16 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 227 meters ⓘ |
| locationOfSinking | near Midway Atoll ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 34 knots ⓘ |
| navalDoctrineRole | fleet carrier in Kido Butai ⓘ |
| notableAction | participated in first wave of Pearl Harbor air strikes ⓘ |
| notableFor | Battle of Midway ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | Sōryū ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| roleAtMidway | launched counterstrikes against U.S. carriers ⓘ |
| shipClass | Hiryū-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| sisterShip | Sōryū ⓘ |
| sunkBy |
United States Navy aircraft
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dive bombers from USS Enterprise ⓘ torpedoes from Japanese destroyers (scuttling) ⓘ |
| sunkIn | Battle of Midway ⓘ |
| survivorsRescuedBy | Japanese destroyers ⓘ |
| theaterOfWar | Pacific War ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
attack on Pearl Harbor
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surface form:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway ⓘ Indian Ocean raid ⓘ |
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: Hiryū Description of subject: Hiryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, best known for its crucial role and eventual sinking during the Battle of Midway in World War II.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hiryu
this entity surface form:
chose to go down with his ship Hiryū