鳳翔
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鳳翔 was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Hōshō, the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier to enter service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 鳳翔 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2451321 — 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: 鳳翔 Context triple: [Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō, nativeName, 鳳翔]
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A.
Shangluo
Shangluo is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shaanxi, China, known for its mountainous terrain, rich natural resources, and historical sites.
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B.
Hanzhong
Hanzhong is a historic prefecture-level city in southwestern Shaanxi, China, known as a key gateway between northern and southern China and for its rich cultural and natural landscapes.
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C.
Weinan
Weinan is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shaanxi Province, China, known for its historical sites and location near the Wei River.
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D.
Baoji
Baoji is a major industrial and transportation hub city in western Shaanxi Province, China, known for its manufacturing base and historical sites.
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E.
Yulin
Yulin is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its coal resources and location on the Loess Plateau near the border with Inner Mongolia.
- 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: 鳳翔 Target entity description: 鳳翔 was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Hōshō, the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier to enter service.
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A.
Shangluo
Shangluo is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shaanxi, China, known for its mountainous terrain, rich natural resources, and historical sites.
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B.
Hanzhong
Hanzhong is a historic prefecture-level city in southwestern Shaanxi, China, known as a key gateway between northern and southern China and for its rich cultural and natural landscapes.
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C.
Weinan
Weinan is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shaanxi Province, China, known for its historical sites and location near the Wei River.
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D.
Baoji
Baoji is a major industrial and transportation hub city in western Shaanxi Province, China, known for its manufacturing base and historical sites.
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E.
Yulin
Yulin is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its coal resources and location on the Loess Plateau near the border with Inner Mongolia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy ship
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aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| airGroupTypical | around 15–20 aircraft ⓘ |
| armamentInitial |
120 mm guns
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anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| builder | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1922-12-27 ⓘ |
| country |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| damagedInWar | yes ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | about 9,500 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 7,470 tons ⓘ |
| enteredServiceAs | world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier to enter service ⓘ |
| era | World War II warship ⓘ |
| fate | scrapped ⓘ |
| homePort | Kure Naval Base ⓘ |
| hullNumber | not formally numbered (pre-hull-number era) ⓘ |
| isFlagshipOfClass | true ⓘ |
| isLeadShipOfClass | true ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1919-12-16 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1921-11-13 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | about 168 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 25 knots ⓘ |
| modernized | 1930s ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Flying Phoenix ⓘ |
| nativeName | 鳳翔 ⓘ |
| navalEnsign | Naval Ensign of the Empire of Japan ⓘ |
| notableFeature | first purpose-designed aircraft carrier completed and commissioned in the world ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Attack on Pearl Harbor support operations
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Battle of Midway support operations ⓘ
linked to:
Midway operation
Pacific War ⓘ Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
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| precededBy | converted aircraft carriers ⓘ |
| primaryUseLateWar |
aircraft ferry
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aircrew training ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
experimental carrier
ⓘ
fleet support carrier ⓘ training carrier ⓘ |
| romanization | Hōshō ⓘ |
| scrappedAt | Osaka ⓘ |
| scrappingCompleted | 1947 ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| shipClass | Hōshō-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| stricken | 1945-11-30 ⓘ |
| surrendered | 1945 ⓘ |
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: 鳳翔 Description of subject: 鳳翔 was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Hōshō, the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier to enter service.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.