Kenji Doihara
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Kenji Doihara was a Japanese Imperial Army general and intelligence officer, notorious for his role in Japan’s expansionist policies in Manchuria and later executed as a Class A war criminal after World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenji Doihara canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4153336 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenji Doihara Context triple: [Sugamo Prison, notablePrisoner, Kenji Doihara]
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A.
Shigeo Hirose
Shigeo Hirose is a pioneering Japanese roboticist renowned for his innovative work in robot mechanisms and design, particularly in snake-like and walking robots.
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B.
Kenji Satō
Kenji Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the common Japanese surname Satō.
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C.
Masataka Yoshida
Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Kensuke Tanabe
Kensuke Tanabe is a Japanese video game designer and producer at Nintendo, best known for his long-running work on major franchises such as Super Mario and Metroid Prime.
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E.
Gunichi Mikawa
Gunichi Mikawa was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, best known for leading Japanese cruiser forces in several major Pacific naval engagements.
- 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: Kenji Doihara Target entity description: Kenji Doihara was a Japanese Imperial Army general and intelligence officer, notorious for his role in Japan’s expansionist policies in Manchuria and later executed as a Class A war criminal after World War II.
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A.
Shigeo Hirose
Shigeo Hirose is a pioneering Japanese roboticist renowned for his innovative work in robot mechanisms and design, particularly in snake-like and walking robots.
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B.
Kenji Satō
Kenji Satō is a Japanese individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the common Japanese surname Satō.
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C.
Masataka Yoshida
Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Kensuke Tanabe
Kensuke Tanabe is a Japanese video game designer and producer at Nintendo, best known for his long-running work on major franchises such as Super Mario and Metroid Prime.
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E.
Gunichi Mikawa
Gunichi Mikawa was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, best known for leading Japanese cruiser forces in several major Pacific naval engagements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese general
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human ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ war criminal ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
|
| birthDate | 1883-08-08 ⓘ |
| convictedBy | International Military Tribunal for the Far East ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | Class A war crimes ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1948-12-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Army War College (Japan)
ⓘ
Imperial Japanese Army Academy ⓘ |
| era |
Shōwa period
ⓘ
linked to:
Showa era
|
| fullName | Kenji Doihara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Mukden Incident
ⓘ
establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Chinese
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| memberOf | Imperial Japanese Army General Staff ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 土肥原 賢二 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
espionage operations in China
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involvement in the creation of Manchukuo ⓘ planning and support of Japanese military aggression in East Asia ⓘ role in Japanese expansion in Manchuria ⓘ use of narcotics trafficking to weaken Chinese resistance ⓘ war crimes during the Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Russo-Japanese War
ⓘ
Second Sino-Japanese War ⓘ
linked to:
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
World War II ⓘ |
| penalty | death ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Okayama Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Sugamo Prison
ⓘ
Tokyo ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of Kwantung Army units
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head of military intelligence in Manchuria ⓘ member of the Supreme War Council (Japan) ⓘ |
| workedFor |
Kwantung Army
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linked to:
Japanese Kwantung Army
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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: Kenji Doihara Description of subject: Kenji Doihara was a Japanese Imperial Army general and intelligence officer, notorious for his role in Japan’s expansionist policies in Manchuria and later executed as a Class A war criminal after World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.