heavy cruiser Haguro
E930364
Heavy cruiser Haguro was an Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō-class warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II before being sunk by British destroyers in 1945.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| heavy cruiser Haguro canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11324178 — 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 Haguro Context triple: [Japanese Center Force, component, heavy cruiser Haguro]
-
A.
heavy cruiser Takao
Heavy cruiser Takao was a major Imperial Japanese Navy warship of the Takao class, noted for its powerful armament and extensive service in the Pacific during World War II.
-
B.
heavy cruiser Chikuma
Heavy cruiser Chikuma was an Imperial Japanese Navy Tone-class warship that saw extensive service in World War II, including major Pacific battles such as Midway and Leyte Gulf.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
heavy cruiser Suzuya
Heavy cruiser Suzuya was an Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami-class warship that saw extensive service in the Pacific during World War II, including major engagements such as the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 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 Haguro Target entity description: Heavy cruiser Haguro was an Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō-class warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II before being sunk by British destroyers in 1945.
-
A.
heavy cruiser Takao
Heavy cruiser Takao was a major Imperial Japanese Navy warship of the Takao class, noted for its powerful armament and extensive service in the Pacific during World War II.
-
B.
heavy cruiser Chikuma
Heavy cruiser Chikuma was an Imperial Japanese Navy Tone-class warship that saw extensive service in World War II, including major Pacific battles such as Midway and Leyte Gulf.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
heavy cruiser Suzuya
Heavy cruiser Suzuya was an Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami-class warship that saw extensive service in the Pacific during World War II, including major engagements such as the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Myōkō-class cruiser
ⓘ
heavy cruiser ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armamentAA | various anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| armamentMain | 10 × 203 mm guns ⓘ |
| armamentTorpedo | 610 mm torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Leyte Gulf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of the Java Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Malacca Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Philippine Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Sunda Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian Ocean raid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | 20.4 metres ⓘ |
| builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss |
gunfire
ⓘ
torpedoes ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1929-04-25 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
Empire of Japan
|
| crewComplement | about 770 ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1945-05-16 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | about 15,900 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 13,300 tons ⓘ |
| draft | 6.32 metres ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1925-03-16 ⓘ |
| launched | 1928-03-24 ⓘ |
| length | 203.8 metres ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 35.5 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mount Haguro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalFleet | Imperial Japanese Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking | Strait of Malacca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerOutput | about 130,000 shaft horsepower ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| range | about 8,000 nautical miles at 14 knots ⓘ |
| role |
escort for troop convoys
ⓘ
surface combatant ⓘ |
| shipClass | Myōkō-class cruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipyard | Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
Japanese cruiser Ashigara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Japanese cruiser Myōkō NERFINISHED ⓘ Japanese cruiser Nachi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | shipwreck ⓘ |
| sunkBy |
British destroyers
ⓘ
Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatre | Pacific War 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: heavy cruiser Haguro Description of subject: Heavy cruiser Haguro was an Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō-class warship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II before being sunk by British destroyers in 1945.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.