Shigetarō Shimada

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Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Navy Minister and a key naval leader during World War II.

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Label Occurrences
Shigetarō Shimada canonical 3

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Imperial Japanese Navy officer
Japanese politician
admiral
person
allegiance Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan
appointedChiefOfNavalGeneralStaff 1943
appointedNavyMinister 1941
birthDate 1883-09-30
birthPlace Akita Prefecture, Japan NERFINISHED
convictedOf war crimes
countryOfCitizenship Japan
deathDate 1976-06-07
deathPlace Tokyo
surface form: Tokyo, Japan
education Imperial Japanese Naval Academy
era Showa era
surface form: Shōwa period
graduationYear 1904
honor Order of the Golden Kite
Order of the Rising Sun
imprisonedAt Sugamo Prison
language Japanese
memberOf Japanese government of Hideki Tōjō
militaryBranch Imperial Japanese Navy
militaryRank Admiral
name Shigetarō Shimada self-link
nationality Japanese
nativeName 嶋田繁太郎
surface form: 島田繁太郎
notableFor leadership role in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
service as Chief of the Naval General Staff
service as Navy Minister of Japan during World War II
occupation cabinet minister
naval officer
paroleYear 1955
participantIn Pacific War
World War II
positionHeld Chief of the Naval General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Navy Minister of Japan
removedAsChiefOfNavalGeneralStaff 1944
removedAsNavyMinister 1944
sentence life imprisonment
servedInCabinetOf Hideki Tojo
surface form: Hideki Tōjō
servedUnder Emperor Hirohito
serviceEndYear 1945
serviceStartYear 1904
triedBy International Military Tribunal for the Far East

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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: Shigetarō Shimada
Description of subject: Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Navy Minister and a key naval leader during World War II.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Naval War College (Japan) notableAlumni Shigetarō Shimada
Shigetarō Shimada name Shigetarō Shimada self-link