Horii
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Horii is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Tomitaro Horii, an Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Horii canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9764910 — 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: Horii Context triple: [Tomitaro Horii, familyName, Horii]
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A.
Hiranaka
Hiranaka is a Japanese surname borne by individuals such as former professional boxer Akinobu Hiranaka.
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B.
Sugimoto
Sugimoto is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as art, sports, and academia.
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C.
Hisashi
Hisashi is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable individuals in fields such as law, politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Ōhira
Ōhira is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Masayoshi Ōhira, a former Prime Minister of Japan.
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E.
Hiranuma
Hiranuma is a notable district within Nishi Ward in Yokohama, Japan, known as part of the city’s central urban area.
- 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: Horii Target entity description: Horii is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Tomitaro Horii, an Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II.
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A.
Hiranaka
Hiranaka is a Japanese surname borne by individuals such as former professional boxer Akinobu Hiranaka.
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B.
Sugimoto
Sugimoto is a Japanese surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as art, sports, and academia.
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C.
Hisashi
Hisashi is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable individuals in fields such as law, politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Ōhira
Ōhira is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Masayoshi Ōhira, a former Prime Minister of Japan.
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E.
Hiranuma
Hiranuma is a notable district within Nishi Ward in Yokohama, Japan, known as part of the city’s central urban area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army general
ⓘ
Japanese surname ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Empire of Japan
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan
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| conflict | Pacific War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| familyName | Horii ⓘ |
| givenName | Tomitaro ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Tomitaro Horii ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding Japanese forces in the New Guinea campaign ⓘ |
| participatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| rank | Major general ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Kanji ⓘ |
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: Horii Description of subject: Horii is a Japanese surname most notably associated with Tomitaro Horii, an Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Horii