Kaku Tomeo
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Kaku Tomeo was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer best known for commanding the aircraft carrier Hiryū during World War II, including at the Battle of Midway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaku Tomeo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10250850 — 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: Kaku Tomeo Context triple: [Hiryū, notableCommander, Kaku Tomeo]
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A.
Tamotsu Takama
Tamotsu Takama was a Japanese naval officer known for commanding the aircraft carrier Hiryū during World War II.
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B.
Chō Tsuratatsu
Chō Tsuratatsu was a samurai of Japan’s Sengoku period who served the Uesugi clan and was known as a retainer and military commander.
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C.
Kōtaigō Shōken
Kōtaigō Shōken is the posthumous title of Empress Haruko, the consort of Emperor Meiji and Japan’s first modern empress.
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D.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
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E.
Kakuji Kakuta
Kakuji Kakuta was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and air commander during World War II, known for leading Japanese forces in several major Pacific campaigns.
- 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: Kaku Tomeo Target entity description: Kaku Tomeo was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer best known for commanding the aircraft carrier Hiryū during World War II, including at the Battle of Midway.
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A.
Tamotsu Takama
Tamotsu Takama was a Japanese naval officer known for commanding the aircraft carrier Hiryū during World War II.
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B.
Chō Tsuratatsu
Chō Tsuratatsu was a samurai of Japan’s Sengoku period who served the Uesugi clan and was known as a retainer and military commander.
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C.
Kōtaigō Shōken
Kōtaigō Shōken is the posthumous title of Empress Haruko, the consort of Emperor Meiji and Japan’s first modern empress.
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D.
Tatsuno Kingo
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent Japanese architect of the Meiji era, best known for pioneering Western-style brick architecture in Japan and designing landmark buildings such as Tokyo Station.
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E.
Kakuji Kakuta
Kakuji Kakuta was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and air commander during World War II, known for leading Japanese forces in several major Pacific campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy officer
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Imperial Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hiryū
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Imperial Japanese Navy carrier operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Midway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Pacific War
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| country |
Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
Empire of Japan
|
| era |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
World War II era
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
naval aviator command staff
ⓘ
ship commander ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of aircraft carrier Hiryū
ⓘ
participation in the Battle of Midway ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Imperial Japanese Navy officer corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commanding officer of aircraft carrier Hiryū ⓘ |
| service | naval warfare ⓘ |
| shipCommanded | Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū 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: Kaku Tomeo Description of subject: Kaku Tomeo was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer best known for commanding the aircraft carrier Hiryū during World War II, including at the Battle of Midway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hiryū