Hideki Tojo
E15406
Hideki Tojo was a Japanese general and Prime Minister during World War II who played a central role in Japan’s militaristic expansion and was later convicted as a war criminal.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hideki Tojo canonical | 22 |
| Hideki Tōjō | 5 |
| Tojo | 1 |
| Tojo Hideki | 1 |
| Tōjō Hideki | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23050 — 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.
Target entity: Hideki Tojo Context triple: [Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), commander, Hideki Tojo]
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A.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese admiral who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor and led the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early years of World War II in the Pacific.
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B.
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito was the Shōwa-era emperor of Japan who reigned during World War II and oversaw the country’s militarist expansion, defeat, and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
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C.
Nobutake Kondō
Nobutake Kondō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played major command roles in key Pacific War engagements, including the Guadalcanal campaign and other operations alongside the main carrier forces.
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Eisaku Satō
Eisaku Satō was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, known for his leadership during Japan’s postwar economic growth and his role in the return of Okinawa.
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E.
Chuichi Nagumo
Chuichi Nagumo was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy best known for leading the carrier strike force that launched the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Hideki Tojo Target entity description: Hideki Tojo was a Japanese general and Prime Minister during World War II who played a central role in Japan’s militaristic expansion and was later convicted as a war criminal.
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A.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese admiral who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor and led the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early years of World War II in the Pacific.
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B.
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito was the Shōwa-era emperor of Japan who reigned during World War II and oversaw the country’s militarist expansion, defeat, and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
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C.
Nobutake Kondō
Nobutake Kondō was a senior Imperial Japanese Navy admiral who played major command roles in key Pacific War engagements, including the Guadalcanal campaign and other operations alongside the main carrier forces.
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D.
Eisaku Satō
Eisaku Satō was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, known for his leadership during Japan’s postwar economic growth and his role in the return of Okinawa.
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E.
Chuichi Nagumo
Chuichi Nagumo was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy best known for leading the carrier strike force that launched the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army general
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Japanese general ⓘ Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ convicted war criminal ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ war criminal ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| charge | Class A war crimes ⓘ |
| commanded |
Kwantung Army
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linked to:
Japanese Kwantung Army
|
| convictedBy | International Military Tribunal for the Far East ⓘ |
| convictedOf | war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1884-12-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1948-12-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Army War College (Japan)
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linked to:
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
Imperial Japanese Army Academy ⓘ |
| endTime | 1944-07-22 ⓘ |
| era |
Shōwa period
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linked to:
Showa era
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| familyName |
Tojo
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linked to:
Hideki Tojo
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| givenName | Hideki ⓘ |
| ideology |
Japanese ultranationalism
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militarism ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| memberOf | Imperial Rule Assistance Association ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| name | Hideki Tojo ⓘ |
| nativeName | 東條 英機 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Japan during much of World War II
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role in planning and prosecuting Japanese expansion in Asia ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 7 ⓘ |
| officeEndForPrimeMinister | 1944-07-22 ⓘ |
| officeStartForPrimeMinister | 1941-10-18 ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Pacific War
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Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Empire of Japan
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linked to:
Japan
Tokyo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Japan
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Sugamo Prison ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Army Minister in the Japanese government
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Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army ⓘ Home Minister of Japan ⓘ Minister of War of Japan ⓘ Prime Minister of Japan ⓘ |
| precededBy | Fumimaro Konoe ⓘ |
| religion | Shinto ⓘ |
| sentence | death ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Katsuko Ito ⓘ |
| startTime | 1941-10-18 ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Kuniaki Koiso
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linked to:
Koiso Kuniaki
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How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Hideki Tojo Description of subject: Hideki Tojo was a Japanese general and Prime Minister during World War II who played a central role in Japan’s militaristic expansion and was later convicted as a war criminal.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.