Nakajima Sakae 12
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The Nakajima Sakae 12 was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in early World War II fighters and floatplanes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nakajima Sakae 12 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9817361 — 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: Nakajima Sakae 12 Context triple: [Nakajima A6M2-N, powerplant, Nakajima Sakae 12]
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A.
Nakajima L2D
The Nakajima L2D was a Japanese license-built version of the Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft, used primarily by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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B.
Kawasaki Ki-100
The Kawasaki Ki-100 was a late-World War II Japanese fighter aircraft renowned for its excellent maneuverability and reliability, created by fitting a radial engine to the airframe of the earlier Ki-61.
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C.
Nakajima C6N
The Nakajima C6N was a high-speed, long-range carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, known for its exceptional performance and late-war service.
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D.
Kawanishi N1K
The Kawanishi N1K was a World War II Japanese Navy fighter aircraft, renowned for its powerful armament and excellent maneuverability, particularly in its land-based N1K-J "Shiden" variant that challenged advanced Allied fighters.
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E.
Nakajima Ki-27
The Nakajima Ki-27 was a Japanese single-engine, fixed-gear fighter aircraft that served as the Imperial Japanese Army’s main frontline fighter in the late 1930s and early World War II.
- 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: Nakajima Sakae 12 Target entity description: The Nakajima Sakae 12 was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in early World War II fighters and floatplanes.
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A.
Nakajima L2D
The Nakajima L2D was a Japanese license-built version of the Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft, used primarily by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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B.
Kawasaki Ki-100
The Kawasaki Ki-100 was a late-World War II Japanese fighter aircraft renowned for its excellent maneuverability and reliability, created by fitting a radial engine to the airframe of the earlier Ki-61.
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C.
Nakajima C6N
The Nakajima C6N was a high-speed, long-range carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, known for its exceptional performance and late-war service.
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D.
Kawanishi N1K
The Kawanishi N1K was a World War II Japanese Navy fighter aircraft, renowned for its powerful armament and excellent maneuverability, particularly in its land-based N1K-J "Shiden" variant that challenged advanced Allied fighters.
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E.
Nakajima Ki-27
The Nakajima Ki-27 was a Japanese single-engine, fixed-gear fighter aircraft that served as the Imperial Japanese Army’s main frontline fighter in the late 1930s and early World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft engine
ⓘ
piston engine ⓘ |
| application | military aviation ⓘ |
| configuration | air-cooled radial ⓘ |
| coolingMethod | air-cooled ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| cylinderArrangement | double-row radial ⓘ |
| designGoal | compact high-power radial engine ⓘ |
| era |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ |
| family | Nakajima Sakae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fuelType | aviation gasoline ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Nakajima Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| notableFeature | widely used in early World War II Japanese aircraft ⓘ |
| numberOfCylinders | 14 ⓘ |
| powerplantFor |
early-war Japanese fighters
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early-war Japanese floatplanes ⓘ |
| successor |
Nakajima Sakae 21
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linked to:
Nakajima Sakae 11
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| usedBy |
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
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Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| usedInAircraftType |
fighter aircraft
ⓘ
floatplane ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | early World War II ⓘ |
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: Nakajima Sakae 12 Description of subject: The Nakajima Sakae 12 was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in early World War II fighters and floatplanes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.