Unryu
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Unryu was a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that served in the Pacific Theater.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2347301 — 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: Unryu Context triple: [First Carrier Division, componentShip, Unryu]
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Marui
Marui is a Japanese department store and retail company known for its fashion-focused shopping complexes branded with the "OIOI" logo.
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B.
Furawi
Furawi is an alternative name for the Fur language spoken by the Fur people of western Sudan.
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C.
Haruku
Haruku is an island in Indonesia’s Maluku (Moluccas) archipelago, known for its tropical environment and as part of the habitat range of the Moluccan megapode (Eulipoa wallacei).
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D.
Yuji
Yuji is a common Japanese masculine given name used by various real and fictional individuals.
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E.
Mamoru
Mamoru is a Japanese masculine given name commonly borne by notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
- 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: Unryu Target entity description: Unryu was a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that served in the Pacific Theater.
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A.
Marui
Marui is a Japanese department store and retail company known for its fashion-focused shopping complexes branded with the "OIOI" logo.
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B.
Furawi
Furawi is an alternative name for the Fur language spoken by the Fur people of western Sudan.
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C.
Haruku
Haruku is an island in Indonesia’s Maluku (Moluccas) archipelago, known for its tropical environment and as part of the habitat range of the Moluccan megapode (Eulipoa wallacei).
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D.
Yuji
Yuji is a common Japanese masculine given name used by various real and fictional individuals.
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E.
Mamoru
Mamoru is a Japanese masculine given name commonly borne by notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy ship
ⓘ
World War II warship ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | about 57 aircraft ⓘ |
| alignment | Axis powers ⓘ |
| armament |
127 mm dual-purpose guns
ⓘ
25 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| attacker | USS Redfish ⓘ |
| beam | about 22 meters ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking | torpedoed by submarine ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1944-08-06 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| constructionSite | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal ⓘ |
| constructionStartEra | Pacific War ⓘ |
| country |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| crewComplement | about 1600 officers and men ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1944-12-19 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | about 20500 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 17500 tons ⓘ |
| era |
World War II era
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| fate | sunk ⓘ |
| flag | Naval Ensign of the Empire of Japan ⓘ |
| hullNumber | Unryu ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1942-08-01 ⓘ |
| launched | 1943-09-25 ⓘ |
| length | about 227 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 34 knots ⓘ |
| namesake | Unryu-class aircraft carrier lead ship ⓘ |
| navalCampaign |
Operations in the Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
Philippines campaign (1944–1945) ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of the Philippines (1944–1945)
|
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking | East China Sea ⓘ |
| propulsion |
geared turbines
ⓘ
oil-fired boilers ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| role | fleet aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Unryu-class aircraft carrier
ⓘ
linked to:
Unryū-class aircraft carrier
|
| status | war loss ⓘ |
| theater |
Pacific Theater
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Theater of Operations
|
| type | fleet carrier ⓘ |
| usedFor | naval aviation operations in the Pacific Theater ⓘ |
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: Unryu Description of subject: Unryu was a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that served in the Pacific Theater.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.