Tomitaro Horii
E236761
Tomitaro Horii was a Japanese Imperial Army general during World War II, known for leading forces in the New Guinea and Pacific campaigns.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tomitaro Horii canonical | 3 |
| Tomitarō Horii | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1562483 — 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: Tomitaro Horii Context triple: [Invasion of Rabaul, commander, Tomitaro Horii]
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A.
Yoshio Itoi
Yoshio Itoi is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his speed, strong throwing arm, and multiple All-Star selections in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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B.
Shigeo Hirose
Shigeo Hirose is a pioneering Japanese roboticist renowned for his innovative work in robot mechanisms and design, particularly in snake-like and walking robots.
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C.
Masayoshi Ōhira
Masayoshi Ōhira was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980.
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D.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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E.
Gunichi Mikawa
Gunichi Mikawa was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, best known for leading Japanese cruiser forces in several major Pacific naval engagements.
- 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: Tomitaro Horii Target entity description: Tomitaro Horii was a Japanese Imperial Army general during World War II, known for leading forces in the New Guinea and Pacific campaigns.
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A.
Yoshio Itoi
Yoshio Itoi is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his speed, strong throwing arm, and multiple All-Star selections in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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B.
Shigeo Hirose
Shigeo Hirose is a pioneering Japanese roboticist renowned for his innovative work in robot mechanisms and design, particularly in snake-like and walking robots.
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C.
Masayoshi Ōhira
Masayoshi Ōhira was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980.
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D.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
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E.
Gunichi Mikawa
Gunichi Mikawa was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, best known for leading Japanese cruiser forces in several major Pacific naval engagements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army officer
ⓘ
Japanese general ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
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| conflict |
New Guinea campaign
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Pacific War ⓘ Papua campaign ⓘ
linked to:
New Guinea campaign
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Horii ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Tomitaro ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Japanese ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| name | Tomitaro Horii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Japanese forces in the New Guinea and Pacific campaigns during World War II
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leading Imperial Japanese Army operations in Papua and New Guinea ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Japanese commander in New Guinea
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Japanese commander in the Pacific theater of World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese Imperial Army leadership during World War II ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tomitaro Horii Description of subject: Tomitaro Horii was a Japanese Imperial Army general during World War II, known for leading forces in the New Guinea and Pacific campaigns.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tomitaro Horii