山田 乙三
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山田 乙三 was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army who played a significant role in military operations during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2558869 — 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: 山田 乙三 Context triple: [Otozō Yamada, nativeName, 山田 乙三]
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A.
松井 石根
松井石根 was a Japanese Imperial Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War who was later convicted as a war criminal for his role in the Nanjing Massacre.
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B.
西村祥治
西村祥治 was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II who commanded major surface forces in the Pacific War.
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C.
栗田 健男
栗田 健男 was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy best known for commanding major surface forces during World War II, including at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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D.
村上宗隆
村上宗隆は、東京ヤクルトスワローズに所属し、史上最年少で三冠王を獲得したことで知られる日本プロ野球界を代表する強打者の一人である。
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E.
平野 佳寿
平野佳寿 is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball as a late-inning reliever.
- 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: 山田 乙三 Target entity description: 山田 乙三 was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army who played a significant role in military operations during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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A.
松井 石根
松井石根 was a Japanese Imperial Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War who was later convicted as a war criminal for his role in the Nanjing Massacre.
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B.
西村祥治
西村祥治 was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II who commanded major surface forces in the Pacific War.
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C.
栗田 健男
栗田 健男 was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy best known for commanding major surface forces during World War II, including at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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D.
村上宗隆
村上宗隆は、東京ヤクルトスワローズに所属し、史上最年少で三冠王を獲得したことで知られる日本プロ野球界を代表する強打者の一人である。
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E.
平野 佳寿
平野佳寿 is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his successful career in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball as a late-inning reliever.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
人物
ⓘ
大日本帝国陸軍の将官 ⓘ 大日本帝国陸軍大将 ⓘ 日本の軍人 ⓘ 陸軍軍人 ⓘ |
| allegiance | 大日本帝国 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
大本営陸軍部
ⓘ
支那派遣軍 ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese North China Area Army
関東軍 ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Kwantung Army
|
| conflict |
太平洋戦争
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific War
日中戦争 ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
第二次世界大戦 ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| countryOfCitizenship | 日本 ⓘ |
| era | 昭和時代 ⓘ |
| familyName | 山田 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
軍事作戦指揮
ⓘ
陸上戦闘指揮 ⓘ |
| genre | 軍事 ⓘ |
| givenName | 乙三 ⓘ |
| hasGender | 男性 ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | 陸軍大将 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | 日本語 ⓘ |
| memberOf | 大日本帝国陸軍士官団 ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | 大日本帝国陸軍 ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
中将
ⓘ
大将 ⓘ 少将 ⓘ |
| militaryTheater |
中国戦線
ⓘ
満州戦線 ⓘ |
| name | 山田乙三 ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | 日本語 ⓘ |
| nativeName | 山田 乙三 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
帝国陸軍の高級将校としての活動
ⓘ
日中戦争における軍事作戦の指揮 ⓘ 第二次世界大戦末期の関東軍司令官としての役割 ⓘ |
| notableRole | 関東軍の終戦時最高指揮官の一人 ⓘ |
| occupation | 軍人 ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 第二次世界大戦の対ソ戦終盤の作戦準備 ⓘ |
| partOf | 大日本帝国陸軍指揮官層 ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
中国大陸
ⓘ
日本 ⓘ 満州 ⓘ
linked to:
Manchuria
|
| positionHeld |
大日本帝国陸軍大将
ⓘ
支那派遣軍の部隊指揮官 ⓘ 第1方面軍司令官 ⓘ 関東軍司令官 ⓘ |
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: 山田 乙三 Description of subject: 山田 乙三 was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army who played a significant role in military operations during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.