Kaiten
E392429
Kaiten was a Japanese warship that took part in the late-19th-century Boshin War naval engagements, including the Battle of Hakodate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaiten canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3843427 — 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: Kaiten Context triple: [Naval Battle of Hakodate, shipInvolved, Kaiten]
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A.
Kadina
Kadina is a historic copper mining town and one of the main commercial centers on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
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B.
Kykuit
Kykuit is a historic Rockefeller family estate and grand mansion known for its architecture, art collections, and landscaped gardens overlooking the Hudson River in New York.
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C.
Damkina
Damkina is a Mesopotamian earth and mother goddess, best known as the consort of the god Enki (Ea) and mother of the Babylonian chief god Marduk.
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D.
Rairi
Rairi is the historical name of Raigad Fort, a prominent hill fort in Maharashtra, India, closely associated with the Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
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E.
Karlani
Karlani is one of the principal Pashtun tribal confederations, encompassing numerous tribes primarily located in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
- 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: Kaiten Target entity description: Kaiten was a Japanese warship that took part in the late-19th-century Boshin War naval engagements, including the Battle of Hakodate.
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A.
Kadina
Kadina is a historic copper mining town and one of the main commercial centers on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
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B.
Kykuit
Kykuit is a historic Rockefeller family estate and grand mansion known for its architecture, art collections, and landscaped gardens overlooking the Hudson River in New York.
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C.
Damkina
Damkina is a Mesopotamian earth and mother goddess, best known as the consort of the god Enki (Ea) and mother of the Babylonian chief god Marduk.
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D.
Rairi
Rairi is the historical name of Raigad Fort, a prominent hill fort in Maharashtra, India, closely associated with the Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
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E.
Karlani
Karlani is one of the principal Pashtun tribal confederations, encompassing numerous tribes primarily located in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese warship
ⓘ
steam warship ⓘ |
| armedWith | naval artillery ⓘ |
| conflict | Boshin War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Bakumatsu
ⓘ
linked to:
Bakumatsu period reforms
Meiji Restoration ⓘ |
| involvedIn | late-19th-century Japanese civil war naval operations ⓘ |
| locationDuringBattle | Hakodate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalEngagement |
Battle of Hakodate
ⓘ
linked to:
Naval Battle of Hakodate
|
| notableFor |
participation in Boshin War naval engagements
ⓘ
service in the Battle of Hakodate ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Ezo Republic navy
ⓘ
Tokugawa shogunate navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Hakodate
ⓘ
linked to:
Naval Battle of Hakodate
Boshin War ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam-powered ⓘ |
| role |
combat vessel
ⓘ
warship in civil conflict ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | late 19th century ⓘ |
| shipType | warship ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Hakodate Bay
ⓘ
Japanese coastal waters ⓘ |
| usedByFaction |
Ezo Republic forces
ⓘ
Tokugawa loyalists ⓘ
linked to:
Tokugawa clan
|
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: Kaiten Description of subject: Kaiten was a Japanese warship that took part in the late-19th-century Boshin War naval engagements, including the Battle of Hakodate.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.