Kaigun-shō

E186791

former government agency government ministry naval ministry

Kaigun-shō was the government ministry responsible for administering and overseeing the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kaigun-shō canonical	2
Kaigun Daijin	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former government agency ⓘ government ministry ⓘ naval ministry ⓘ
abolishedBy	Allied military governments ⓘ surface form: Allied occupation authorities
activeDuring	Meiji era ⓘ surface form: Meiji period Showa era ⓘ surface form: Shōwa period Taisho era ⓘ surface form: Taishō period World War II ⓘ
contributedTo	Japanese naval expansion before World War II ⓘ implementation of Japanese maritime warfare policy ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ surface form: Empire of Japan
dissolvedAfter	Japan’s defeat in World War II ⓘ
governmentBranch	executive branch of the Empire of Japan ⓘ
hadRole	coordinating naval operations with the Army Ministry ⓘ managing naval academies ⓘ managing naval bases ⓘ managing naval shipyards ⓘ planning naval strategy ⓘ
headedBy	Navy Minister of Japan ⓘ
jurisdiction	Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ
languageOfName	Japanese ⓘ
locatedIn	Japan ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ
nativeName	Navy Ministry of Japan ⓘ surface form: 海軍省
operatedBy	Imperial Japan ⓘ surface form: Imperial Japanese government
oversaw	Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ
partOf	central government of the Empire of Japan ⓘ
replacedBy	Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ⓘ surface form: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (for operational naval functions) Japan Ministry of Defense ⓘ surface form: Japanese Defense Agency
responsibleFor	administration of the Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ naval armaments planning ⓘ naval budgeting ⓘ naval logistics ⓘ naval personnel management ⓘ naval policy of the Empire of Japan ⓘ naval procurement ⓘ naval research and development ⓘ naval shipbuilding programs ⓘ
seeAlso	Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff ⓘ surface form: Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff Office Rikugun-shō ⓘ
subordinateTo	Cabinet of Japan ⓘ surface form: Cabinet of Japan (pre-1947)
translatedName	Ministry of the Navy ⓘ
transliteration	Kaigun-shō self-link ⓘ
usedScript	kanji ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Kaigun-shō
Description of subject: Kaigun-shō was the government ministry responsible for administering and overseeing the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II.

Referenced by (3)

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

Navy Ministry of Japan → officialName → Kaigun-shō ⓘ

Rikugun Daijin → relatedOffice → Kaigun-shō ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kaigun Daijin

Kaigun-shō → transliteration → Kaigun-shō self-link ⓘ