Japanese submarine I-168
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Japanese submarine I-168 was an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet submarine best known for its role in the Battle of Midway, where it torpedoed and sank the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Japanese submarine I-168 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T75123 — 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: Japanese submarine I-168 Context triple: [USS Hammann (DD-412), sunkBy, Japanese submarine I-168]
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A.
Yamato
Yamato was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever constructed.
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B.
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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C.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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D.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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E.
Sōryū
Sōryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during 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: Japanese submarine I-168 Target entity description: Japanese submarine I-168 was an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet submarine best known for its role in the Battle of Midway, where it torpedoed and sank the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann.
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A.
Yamato
Yamato was a World War II-era Japanese battleship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever constructed.
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B.
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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C.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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D.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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E.
Sōryū
Sōryū was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Japanese submarine I-168 Description of subject: Japanese submarine I-168 was an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet submarine best known for its role in the Battle of Midway, where it torpedoed and sank the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Hammann (DD-412)