Battle of Ioribaiwa
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The Battle of Ioribaiwa was a World War II engagement along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea in 1942, where Australian forces made a crucial defensive stand against the advancing Japanese toward Port Moresby.
All labels observed (1)
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| Battle of Ioribaiwa canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19612955 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Ioribaiwa Context triple: [2/25th Battalion (Australia), engagement, Battle of Ioribaiwa]
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Battle of Shiroyama
The Battle of Shiroyama was the climactic 1877 clash in which Saigō Takamori’s samurai forces were decisively defeated by the modern Imperial Japanese Army, symbolizing the end of the samurai era in Japan.
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Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
The Battle of Ichi-no-Tani was a pivotal 1184 clash in Japan’s Genpei War in which Minamoto forces routed the Taira clan by attacking their coastal fortress from both land and sea.
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C.
Battle of Bun'ei
The Battle of Bun'ei was a 1274 Mongol-led invasion attempt against Japan that was repelled near Hakata Bay, marking the first of the famous failed Mongol invasions of Japan.
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Battle of Mimigawa
The Battle of Mimigawa was a significant 1578 Sengoku-period clash in Kyushu in which the Shimazu clan decisively defeated the Ōtomo clan, cementing Shimazu dominance in southern Japan.
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E.
Battle of Ishibashiyama
The Battle of Ishibashiyama was an early and ultimately unsuccessful engagement in 1180 in which Minamoto no Yoritomo first raised arms against the Taira clan during Japan’s Genpei War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Ioribaiwa Target entity description: The Battle of Ioribaiwa was a World War II engagement along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea in 1942, where Australian forces made a crucial defensive stand against the advancing Japanese toward Port Moresby.
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A.
Battle of Shiroyama
The Battle of Shiroyama was the climactic 1877 clash in which Saigō Takamori’s samurai forces were decisively defeated by the modern Imperial Japanese Army, symbolizing the end of the samurai era in Japan.
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B.
Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
The Battle of Ichi-no-Tani was a pivotal 1184 clash in Japan’s Genpei War in which Minamoto forces routed the Taira clan by attacking their coastal fortress from both land and sea.
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C.
Battle of Bun'ei
The Battle of Bun'ei was a 1274 Mongol-led invasion attempt against Japan that was repelled near Hakata Bay, marking the first of the famous failed Mongol invasions of Japan.
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D.
Battle of Mimigawa
The Battle of Mimigawa was a significant 1578 Sengoku-period clash in Kyushu in which the Shimazu clan decisively defeated the Ōtomo clan, cementing Shimazu dominance in southern Japan.
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E.
Battle of Ishibashiyama
The Battle of Ishibashiyama was an early and ultimately unsuccessful engagement in 1180 in which Minamoto no Yoritomo first raised arms against the Taira clan during Japan’s Genpei War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.