Five-Power Treaty

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arms control treaty international agreement naval disarmament treaty

The Five-Power Treaty was a 1922 naval disarmament agreement among major world powers that limited battleship construction and aimed to prevent an arms race at sea.

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Label	Occurrences
Washington Naval Treaty	21
Five-Power Treaty canonical	4
Washington Naval Treaty limitations	1
Washington Naval Treaty of 1922	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T743501 — 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: Five-Power Treaty
Context triple: [Washington Naval Conference period, hasOutcome, Five-Power Treaty]

A. Kellogg–Briand Pact
The Kellogg–Briand Pact was a 1928 international agreement in which numerous nations renounced war as an instrument of national policy, symbolizing idealistic efforts to secure peace in the interwar period.
B. Treaty of San Francisco
The Treaty of San Francisco was the 1951 peace treaty between Japan and most Allied nations that officially ended World War II hostilities with Japan and restored its sovereignty.
C. Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Portsmouth was the 1905 peace agreement, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in New Hampshire, that ended the Russo-Japanese War and marked Japan’s emergence as a major world power.
D. Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact was a World War II alliance agreement that formally united Germany, Italy, and Japan into the Axis powers against the Allied nations.
E. A Revision of the Treaty
A Revision of the Treaty is John Maynard Keynes’s 1922 follow-up work to The Economic Consequences of the Peace, in which he further critiques and proposes modifications to the post–World War I peace settlement.
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: Five-Power Treaty
Target entity description: The Five-Power Treaty was a 1922 naval disarmament agreement among major world powers that limited battleship construction and aimed to prevent an arms race at sea.

A. Kellogg–Briand Pact
The Kellogg–Briand Pact was a 1928 international agreement in which numerous nations renounced war as an instrument of national policy, symbolizing idealistic efforts to secure peace in the interwar period.
B. Treaty of San Francisco
The Treaty of San Francisco was the 1951 peace treaty between Japan and most Allied nations that officially ended World War II hostilities with Japan and restored its sovereignty.
C. Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Portsmouth was the 1905 peace agreement, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in New Hampshire, that ended the Russo-Japanese War and marked Japan’s emergence as a major world power.
D. Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact was a World War II alliance agreement that formally united Germany, Italy, and Japan into the Axis powers against the Allied nations.
E. A Revision of the Treaty
A Revision of the Treaty is John Maynard Keynes’s 1922 follow-up work to The Economic Consequences of the Peace, in which he further critiques and proposes modifications to the post–World War I peace settlement.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	arms control treaty ⓘ international agreement ⓘ naval disarmament treaty ⓘ
aimedTo	limit battleship construction ⓘ prevent naval arms race ⓘ reduce naval armaments ⓘ
allowed	replacement of obsolete capital ships after a specified age ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ linked to: Five-Power Treaty
appliedTo	Pacific and global naval deployments ⓘ
cameIntoForceIn	1922 ⓘ
category	1922 in international relations ⓘ Interwar naval treaties ⓘ
concludedAt	Washington Naval Conference ⓘ
duration	initially 10 years ⓘ
establishedNavalRatio	1.67 ratio for France relative to US and UK ⓘ 1.67 ratio for Italy relative to US and UK ⓘ 5:5:3 ratio for capital ships between US, UK, and Japan ⓘ
geopoliticalContext	interwar period ⓘ
historicalPeriod	interwar disarmament era ⓘ
influenced	London Naval Treaty ⓘ
influencedBy	post–World War I disarmament movement ⓘ
inForceUntil	1930s ⓘ
jurisdiction	naval forces of signatory states ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
limitedConstructionOf	battlecruisers ⓘ battleships ⓘ
limitedTypeOfVessel	aircraft carriers ⓘ capital ships ⓘ
negotiatedBy	Arthur Balfour ⓘ Charles Evans Hughes ⓘ Japanese delegation at Washington Naval Conference ⓘ
partOf	Washington Naval Conference agreements ⓘ linked to: Washington Naval Conference
prohibited	new capital ship construction above agreed limits ⓘ
relatedTo	Four-Power Treaty ⓘ Nine-Power Treaty ⓘ
restricted	individual ship displacement ⓘ maximum gun caliber on capital ships ⓘ total tonnage of capital ships ⓘ
resultedIn	scrapping of existing capital ships ⓘ stabilization of naval power balance among signatories ⓘ
signatory	France ⓘ Italy ⓘ Japan ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
signedAt	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
signedOn	1922-02-06 ⓘ
subjectOf	naval tonnage limitations ⓘ

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Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Washington Naval Conference period → hasOutcome → Five-Power Treaty ⓘ

Amagi-class battlecruiser → treatyAffectedBy → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

USS Washington (BB-47) → reasonForCancellation → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

subject linked to: USS Washington (BB-47) (canceled)

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

USS Washington (BB-47) → treaty → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

subject linked to: USS Washington (BB-47) (canceled)

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

USS Lexington (CV-2) → treaty → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Mogami class → designedToComplyWith → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Five-Power Treaty → alsoKnownAs → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Four-Power Treaty → relatedTo → Five-Power Treaty ⓘ

North Carolina-class battleship → designedUnder → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

USS Washington (BB-47) → constructionHaltedUnder → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

USS Washington (BB-47) → scrappedUnder → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

CC-1 → conversionReason → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Warren G. Harding administration → signedTreaty → Five-Power Treaty ⓘ

Portland class → navalTreatyContext → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

HMS Nelson → treatyCompliance → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

subject linked to: battleship HMS Nelson

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Northampton-class cruiser → designedUnder → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Furutaka-class cruisers → designedToComplyWith → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Washington Naval Conference → result → Five-Power Treaty ⓘ

Pensacola class → navalTreatyContext → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Pensacola class → treatyLimited → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Delaware-class battleship → scrappedUnder → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Vinson-Trammell Act → basedOn → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

HMS Benbow → removedFromServiceReason → Washington Naval Treaty limitations ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

New Orleans-class cruiser → treaty → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

Portland-class cruiser → navalTreaty → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

CC-3 → cancellationReason → Washington Naval Treaty ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

CC-3 → associatedTreaty → Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 ⓘ

linked to: Five-Power Treaty

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Referenced by (27)

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