Yasuo Yamagata
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Yasuo Yamagata was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the New Guinea campaign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yasuo Yamagata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5122277 — 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: Yasuo Yamagata Context triple: [Battle of Buna–Gona, commander, Yasuo Yamagata]
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A.
Ōkubo Toshimichi
Ōkubo Toshimichi was a leading Meiji-era Japanese statesman and key architect of the modernization and centralization of Japan after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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B.
Matsui Iwane
Matsui Iwane was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army best known for commanding Japanese forces during the invasion of China and being held responsible for the Nanjing Massacre, for which he was later convicted and executed as a war criminal.
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C.
Takahashi Korekiyo
Takahashi Korekiyo was a prominent Japanese statesman and finance minister, known for pioneering expansionary monetary policies that helped Japan recover from the Great Depression.
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D.
Iwakura Ushijima
Iwakura Ushijima is a notable individual distinguished by bearing the Japanese surname Ushijima.
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E.
Kuroda Kiyotaka
Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Meiji-era Japanese statesman and former samurai who served as the second Prime Minister of Japan and played a key role in the early development of Hokkaido.
- 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: Yasuo Yamagata Target entity description: Yasuo Yamagata was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the New Guinea campaign.
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A.
Ōkubo Toshimichi
Ōkubo Toshimichi was a leading Meiji-era Japanese statesman and key architect of the modernization and centralization of Japan after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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B.
Matsui Iwane
Matsui Iwane was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army best known for commanding Japanese forces during the invasion of China and being held responsible for the Nanjing Massacre, for which he was later convicted and executed as a war criminal.
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C.
Takahashi Korekiyo
Takahashi Korekiyo was a prominent Japanese statesman and finance minister, known for pioneering expansionary monetary policies that helped Japan recover from the Great Depression.
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D.
Iwakura Ushijima
Iwakura Ushijima is a notable individual distinguished by bearing the Japanese surname Ushijima.
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E.
Kuroda Kiyotaka
Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Meiji-era Japanese statesman and former samurai who served as the second Prime Minister of Japan and played a key role in the early development of Hokkaido.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| conflict |
New Guinea campaign
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World War II ⓘ |
| country |
Empire of Japan
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linked to:
Japan
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| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading Japanese forces in the New Guinea campaign during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | army officer ⓘ |
| role | military commander ⓘ |
| sideInConflict |
Japan in World War II
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linked to:
Pacific War
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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: Yasuo Yamagata Description of subject: Yasuo Yamagata was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who led Japanese forces during World War II, notably in the New Guinea campaign.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.