heavy cruiser Kumano
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Heavy cruiser Kumano was a Mogami-class Imperial Japanese Navy warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, including major battles such as Leyte Gulf.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| heavy cruiser Kumano canonical | 3 |
| heavy cruiser Kumano (crippled) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8651297 — 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: heavy cruiser Kumano Context triple: [Takeo Kurita, notableCommand, heavy cruiser Kumano]
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A.
heavy cruiser Mikuma
The heavy cruiser Mikuma was an Imperial Japanese Navy warship of the Mogami class that saw early World War II service before being sunk during the pivotal Battle of Midway in 1942.
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B.
heavy cruiser Chōkai
Heavy cruiser Chōkai was a Takao-class Imperial Japanese Navy warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, including major engagements such as the Battle of Savo Island and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Takao-class cruiser
The Takao-class cruiser was a group of large, heavily armed and fast Japanese heavy cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the interwar period and active during World War II.
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D.
Japanese heavy cruiser Atago
The Japanese heavy cruiser Atago was a Takao-class warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served as a major surface combatant in numerous Pacific Theater engagements during World War II.
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E.
Tenryu-class cruiser
The Tenryu-class cruiser was a small, fast light cruiser class of the Imperial Japanese Navy built in the World War I era, primarily designed for destroyer flotilla leadership and scouting duties.
- 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: heavy cruiser Kumano Target entity description: Heavy cruiser Kumano was a Mogami-class Imperial Japanese Navy warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, including major battles such as Leyte Gulf.
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A.
heavy cruiser Mikuma
The heavy cruiser Mikuma was an Imperial Japanese Navy warship of the Mogami class that saw early World War II service before being sunk during the pivotal Battle of Midway in 1942.
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B.
heavy cruiser Chōkai
Heavy cruiser Chōkai was a Takao-class Imperial Japanese Navy warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, including major engagements such as the Battle of Savo Island and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Takao-class cruiser
The Takao-class cruiser was a group of large, heavily armed and fast Japanese heavy cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the interwar period and active during World War II.
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D.
Japanese heavy cruiser Atago
The Japanese heavy cruiser Atago was a Takao-class warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served as a major surface combatant in numerous Pacific Theater engagements during World War II.
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E.
Tenryu-class cruiser
The Tenryu-class cruiser was a small, fast light cruiser class of the Imperial Japanese Navy built in the World War I era, primarily designed for destroyer flotilla leadership and scouting duties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy warship
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Mogami-class cruiser ⓘ heavy cruiser ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | floatplanes ⓘ |
| aircraftFacilities | stern catapults and aircraft handling deck ⓘ |
| armamentMainBattery |
5× triple 15.5 cm guns (as built)
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5× twin 20.3 cm guns (after reconstruction) ⓘ |
| armamentTorpedoes | 610 mm Type 93 torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| builtBy | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | bomb and torpedo hits ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1937-10-31 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
|
| crewComplement | approximately 800–900 officers and men ⓘ |
| damagedBy |
U.S. carrier aircraft at Battle off Samar
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aerial bombs in late 1944 ⓘ submarine torpedoes in late 1944 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | approximately 15000 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | approximately 11000 tons ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in the Philippines during World War II ⓘ |
| finalActionLocation | off Santa Cruz, Philippines ⓘ |
| hullNumber | not publicly used; identified by name in IJN service ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1934-04-05 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1936-10-15 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | about 200 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | approximately 35 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kumano River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalEnsign | Naval Ensign of the Empire of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Leyte Gulf
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Midway NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Java Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Philippine Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle off Samar NERFINISHED ⓘ Guadalcanal Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Mogami-class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| reconstructedAs | heavy cruiser (from light cruiser configuration) ⓘ |
| shipClass | Mogami-class cruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipType | heavy cruiser ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
Mikuma
NERFINISHED
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Mogami NERFINISHED ⓘ Suzuya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkBy | U.S. carrier-based aircraft ⓘ |
| sunkOn | 1944-11-25 ⓘ |
| taskForce | Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force at Leyte Gulf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theater | Pacific War ⓘ |
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: heavy cruiser Kumano Description of subject: Heavy cruiser Kumano was a Mogami-class Imperial Japanese Navy warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, including major battles such as Leyte Gulf.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Takeo Kurita
this entity surface form:
heavy cruiser Kumano (crippled)