Masaharu Homma
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Masaharu Homma was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the invasion of the Philippines during World War II and later being held responsible for the Bataan Death March.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Masaharu Homma canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140513 — 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: Masaharu Homma Context triple: [Philippines campaign (1941–1942), commandedBy, Masaharu Homma]
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
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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C.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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D.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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E.
Hata Shunroku
Hata Shunroku was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a major leadership role in Japan’s military campaigns during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, later convicted as a war criminal.
- 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: Masaharu Homma Target entity description: Masaharu Homma was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the invasion of the Philippines during World War II and later being held responsible for the Bataan Death March.
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A.
Jirō Minami
Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
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B.
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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C.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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D.
Minoru Ōta
Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
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E.
Hata Shunroku
Hata Shunroku was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a major leadership role in Japan’s military campaigns during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, later convicted as a war criminal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Masaharu Homma Description of subject: Masaharu Homma was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the invasion of the Philippines during World War II and later being held responsible for the Bataan Death March.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.