Japanese carrier Zuikaku
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Imperial Japanese Navy warship
Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier
aircraft carrier
fleet aircraft carrier
Japanese carrier Zuikaku was a Shōkaku-class fleet aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served as one of Japan’s principal carriers in World War II, participating in major Pacific battles before being sunk in 1944.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Japanese carrier Zuikaku canonical | 2 |
| Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku | 1 |
| Zuikaku was sunk in 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf | 1 |
| aircraft carrier Zuikaku | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1293589 — 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 carrier Zuikaku Context triple: [Battle of the Philippine Sea, aircraftCarrierInvolved, Japanese carrier Zuikaku]
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A.
Japanese carrier Shokaku
Japanese carrier Shokaku was a major Imperial Japanese Navy fleet aircraft carrier, renowned for its role in early Pacific War battles before being sunk in 1944.
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B.
Japanese carrier Taiho
Japanese carrier Taiho was an advanced Imperial Japanese Navy fleet aircraft carrier, notable as Japan’s first armored-deck carrier and sunk during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in World War II.
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C.
Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
The Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō was a light carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that saw extensive service in the early Pacific War before being sunk at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in 1942.
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D.
Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
The Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga was a converted battleship and one of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s key fleet carriers in the early Pacific War, playing a major role in the attack on Pearl Harbor before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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E.
Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
The Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō was the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier to enter service, playing a pioneering role in the development of naval aviation for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- 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 carrier Zuikaku Target entity description: Japanese carrier Zuikaku was a Shōkaku-class fleet aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served as one of Japan’s principal carriers in World War II, participating in major Pacific battles before being sunk in 1944.
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A.
Japanese carrier Shokaku
Japanese carrier Shokaku was a major Imperial Japanese Navy fleet aircraft carrier, renowned for its role in early Pacific War battles before being sunk in 1944.
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B.
Japanese carrier Taiho
Japanese carrier Taiho was an advanced Imperial Japanese Navy fleet aircraft carrier, notable as Japan’s first armored-deck carrier and sunk during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in World War II.
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C.
Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
The Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō was a light carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that saw extensive service in the early Pacific War before being sunk at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in 1942.
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D.
Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
The Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga was a converted battleship and one of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s key fleet carriers in the early Pacific War, playing a major role in the attack on Pearl Harbor before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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E.
Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
The Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō was the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier to enter service, playing a pioneering role in the development of naval aviation for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy warship
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Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ fleet aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| aircraftTypeCarried |
Aichi D3A dive bombers
ⓘ
surface form:
Aichi D3A
Mitsubishi A6M ⓘ
surface form:
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Nakajima B5N ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | approximately 70–80 aircraft ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 26 m ⓘ |
| builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ⓘ |
| builtAt |
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
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surface form:
Kobe, Japan
|
| causeOfSinking | air attack by U.S. carrier aircraft ⓘ |
| class |
Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier
ⓘ
surface form:
Shōkaku class
|
| commissioned | 1941-09-25 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Imperial Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
Empire of Japan
|
| dateSunk | 1944-10-25 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | about 32,105 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 25,675 tons ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in battle ⓘ |
| flagshipDuring | Battle off Cape Engaño ⓘ |
| flagshipOf |
Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa
ⓘ
surface form:
Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa
|
| laidDown | 1938-05-25 ⓘ |
| launched | 1939-11-27 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 257.5 m ⓘ |
| locationOfSinking | off Luzon, Philippines ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 34 knots ⓘ |
| navalEnsign |
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (variant as naval ensign)
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surface form:
Naval Ensign of the Empire of Japan
|
| navalFleet | Kido Butai ⓘ |
| notableFor | one of Japan’s principal fleet carriers in the early Pacific War ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
attack on Pearl Harbor
ⓘ
surface form:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Leyte Gulf ⓘ Battle of Coral Sea ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of the Eastern Solomons ⓘ Battle of the Philippine Sea ⓘ Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands ⓘ Battle off Cape Engaño ⓘ Indian Ocean raid ⓘ
surface form:
Indian Ocean Raid
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| propulsion |
4 shafts
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| roleAtPearlHarbor | part of First Air Fleet strike force ⓘ |
| servedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
Shokaku
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surface form:
Shōkaku
|
| sunkDuring |
Battle of Leyte Gulf
ⓘ
Battle off Cape Engaño ⓘ |
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 carrier Zuikaku Description of subject: Japanese carrier Zuikaku was a Shōkaku-class fleet aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served as one of Japan’s principal carriers in World War II, participating in major Pacific battles before being sunk in 1944.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
aircraft carrier Zuikaku
this entity surface form:
Zuikaku was sunk in 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
this entity surface form:
Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku