Hiryu
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Hiryu was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War battles, including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiryu canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T368754 — 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: Hiryu Context triple: [First Air Fleet, componentUnit, Hiryu]
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A.
Sōryū
Sōryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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B.
Zuikaku
Zuikaku was a Shōkaku-class fleet aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that fought in major Pacific War battles, including Pearl Harbor and the Battle of the Coral Sea, before being sunk at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Shokaku
Shokaku was a major World War II Japanese aircraft carrier that played a key role in early Pacific naval battles before being sunk in 1944.
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D.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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E.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
- 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: Hiryu Target entity description: Hiryu was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War battles, including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway.
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A.
Sōryū
Sōryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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B.
Zuikaku
Zuikaku was a Shōkaku-class fleet aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that fought in major Pacific War battles, including Pearl Harbor and the Battle of the Coral Sea, before being sunk at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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C.
Shokaku
Shokaku was a major World War II Japanese aircraft carrier that played a key role in early Pacific naval battles before being sunk in 1944.
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D.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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E.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Hiryu Description of subject: Hiryu was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War battles, including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers
subject linked to:
fleet carrier Soryu
subject linked to:
Mitsubishi A5M fighters