奉文
E294590
奉文 is the given name of Tomoyuki Yamashita, a prominent Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II, known as the "Tiger of Malaya."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 奉文 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2744457 — 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: 奉文 Context triple: [山下 奉文, givenName, 奉文]
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A.
陳平
陳平, better known internationally as Chin Peng, was the longtime leader of the Malayan Communist Party and a key figure in the Malayan Emergency against British colonial rule.
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B.
陳
陳 is a common Chinese surname and character with historical roots, widely used across Chinese-speaking communities and often romanized as "Chan," "Chen," or similar variants.
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C.
詹
詹 is a Chinese surname and character commonly romanized as "Chan" in Cantonese.
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D.
長 勇
長 勇 (Isamu Chō) was a Japanese Imperial Army general known for his fervent nationalism and key role in the defense of Okinawa during World War II.
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E.
Sheng Xuanhuai
Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
- 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: 奉文 Target entity description: 奉文 is the given name of Tomoyuki Yamashita, a prominent Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II, known as the "Tiger of Malaya."
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A.
陳平
陳平, better known internationally as Chin Peng, was the longtime leader of the Malayan Communist Party and a key figure in the Malayan Emergency against British colonial rule.
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B.
陳
陳 is a common Chinese surname and character with historical roots, widely used across Chinese-speaking communities and often romanized as "Chan," "Chen," or similar variants.
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C.
詹
詹 is a Chinese surname and character commonly romanized as "Chan" in Cantonese.
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D.
長 勇
長 勇 (Isamu Chō) was a Japanese Imperial Army general known for his fervent nationalism and key role in the defense of Okinawa during World War II.
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E.
Sheng Xuanhuai
Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Imperial Japanese Army
ⓘ
Malayan Campaign ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Malaya
World War II ⓘ “Tiger of Malaya” ⓘ
linked to:
Tiger of Malaya
|
| bearerNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| bearerRole |
general
ⓘ
military commander ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese naming tradition ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | masculine ⓘ |
| givenNameOf |
Tomoyuki Yamashita
ⓘ
山下奉文 ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| nameOrderUsage | follows family name in Japanese order ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Tomoyuki Yamashita
ⓘ
山下奉文 ⓘ |
| script | Kanji ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Imperial Japanese Army officers
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperial Japanese Army
|
| writingSystem | Japanese logographic characters ⓘ |
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: 奉文 Description of subject: 奉文 is the given name of Tomoyuki Yamashita, a prominent Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II, known as the "Tiger of Malaya."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.