山下 奉文
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山下 奉文 was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the rapid conquest of Malaya and Singapore during World War II, earning him the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 山下 奉文 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T489378 — 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: 山下 奉文 Context triple: [Tomoyuki Yamashita, nativeName, 山下 奉文]
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岸田裕子
岸田裕子 is the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and serves as Japan’s First Lady, known for her diplomatic and cultural engagements at home and abroad.
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B.
Sojin Kamiyama
Sojin Kamiyama was a Japanese actor of the silent film era, best known for his prominent roles in early Hollywood productions.
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C.
Snow Country
Snow Country is a historical novel by Sebastian Faulks that explores love, trauma, and political upheaval in early 20th-century Europe.
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D.
Den Kenjirō
Den Kenjirō was a Japanese statesman and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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E.
Shōhō
Shōhō was a Japanese light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being the first Japanese carrier sunk in the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
- 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: 山下 奉文 Target entity description: 山下 奉文 was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the rapid conquest of Malaya and Singapore during World War II, earning him the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya."
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A.
岸田裕子
岸田裕子 is the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and serves as Japan’s First Lady, known for her diplomatic and cultural engagements at home and abroad.
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B.
Sojin Kamiyama
Sojin Kamiyama was a Japanese actor of the silent film era, best known for his prominent roles in early Hollywood productions.
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C.
Snow Country
Snow Country is a historical novel by Sebastian Faulks that explores love, trauma, and political upheaval in early 20th-century Europe.
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D.
Den Kenjirō
Den Kenjirō was a Japanese statesman and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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E.
Shōhō
Shōhō was a Japanese light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, notable for being the first Japanese carrier sunk in the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: 山下 奉文 Description of subject: 山下 奉文 was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading the rapid conquest of Malaya and Singapore during World War II, earning him the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.