Heian Maru
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Heian Maru is a famous World War II Japanese transport shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now a popular site for recreational wreck diving.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heian Maru canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4014383 — 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: Heian Maru Context triple: [Chuuk Lagoon, hasDiveSites, Heian Maru]
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Shinkoku Maru
Shinkoku Maru is a famous World War II-era Japanese oil tanker wreck that now serves as a popular scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia.
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B.
Fujikawa Maru
Fujikawa Maru is a famous World War II Japanese cargo shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now serving as a popular wreck diving site rich with marine life and historical artifacts.
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C.
Japanese cruiser Akitsushima
Japanese cruiser Akitsushima was an Imperial Japanese Navy protected cruiser active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notably serving in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.
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D.
Japanese cruiser Kako
Japanese cruiser Kako was an Imperial Japanese Navy Furutaka-class heavy cruiser that served in the early Pacific campaigns of World War II before being sunk by a U.S. submarine shortly after participating in the Battle of Savo Island.
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E.
Piper Maru Klotz
Piper Maru Klotz is the daughter of actress Gillian Anderson and art director Clyde Klotz, known primarily for her connection to her mother's work on The X-Files.
- 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: Heian Maru Target entity description: Heian Maru is a famous World War II Japanese transport shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now a popular site for recreational wreck diving.
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A.
Shinkoku Maru
Shinkoku Maru is a famous World War II-era Japanese oil tanker wreck that now serves as a popular scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia.
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B.
Fujikawa Maru
Fujikawa Maru is a famous World War II Japanese cargo shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now serving as a popular wreck diving site rich with marine life and historical artifacts.
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C.
Japanese cruiser Akitsushima
Japanese cruiser Akitsushima was an Imperial Japanese Navy protected cruiser active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notably serving in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.
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D.
Japanese cruiser Kako
Japanese cruiser Kako was an Imperial Japanese Navy Furutaka-class heavy cruiser that served in the early Pacific campaigns of World War II before being sunk by a U.S. submarine shortly after participating in the Battle of Savo Island.
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E.
Piper Maru Klotz
Piper Maru Klotz is the daughter of actress Gillian Anderson and art director Clyde Klotz, known primarily for her connection to her mother's work on The X-Files.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese merchant ship
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World War II shipwreck ⓘ auxiliary submarine tender ⓘ shipwreck ⓘ |
| attackedBy | United States Navy aircraft ⓘ |
| builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ⓘ |
| builtAt | Nagasaki ⓘ |
| builtFor | Osaka Shosen Kaisha ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking | aerial attack ⓘ |
| completedDate | 1930-12-10 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| contains |
ceramic dishes
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engines ⓘ machine tools ⓘ medicine bottles ⓘ submarine periscopes ⓘ submarine torpedoes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1944-02-17 ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1930 ⓘ |
| grossTonnage | 11616 GRT ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | underwater cultural heritage site ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| hazard | unexploded ordnance ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1930-09-10 ⓘ |
| length | 163 meters ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chuuk State
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Federated States of Micronesia ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Chuuk Lagoon ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | about 33 meters ⓘ |
| minimumDepth | about 10 meters ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Peaceful Sea Circle ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| orientation | lying on port side ⓘ |
| partOf | Truk Lagoon shipwrecks ⓘ |
| popularFor |
recreational wreck diving
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technical diving ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry | Osaka ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel engine ⓘ |
| requisitionDate | 1941 ⓘ |
| requisitionedBy | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| roleDuringWar | submarine depot ship ⓘ |
| status | wreck ⓘ |
| sunkDuring | Operation Hailstone ⓘ |
| tourismAttractionType | dive site ⓘ |
| use |
passenger-cargo liner
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submarine tender ⓘ transport ship ⓘ |
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: Heian Maru Description of subject: Heian Maru is a famous World War II Japanese transport shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now a popular site for recreational wreck diving.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.