Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19
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Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 was a World War II fleet submarine best known for its highly successful torpedo attack in September 1942 that damaged or sank multiple U.S. warships in a single salvo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 canonical | 1 |
| Japanese submarine I-19 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1971828 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 Context triple: [USS O’Brien (DD-415), torpedoedBy, Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19]
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Japanese submarine I-168
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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Japanese destroyer Yudachi
Japanese destroyer Yudachi was an Imperial Japanese Navy Shiratsuyu-class destroyer that saw extensive action in the early Pacific War before being sunk during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.
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Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze
The Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kagerō-class destroyer that saw extensive action in World War II, including major Pacific naval engagements.
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Japanese destroyer Fubuki
The Japanese destroyer Fubuki was a pioneering Fubuki-class "special type" destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, renowned for its powerful armament and advanced design that influenced destroyer construction worldwide before and during World War II.
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Japanese cruiser Furutaka
Japanese cruiser Furutaka was an Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser of the interwar Furutaka class that saw extensive service in the early Pacific War before being sunk in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 Target entity description: Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 was a World War II fleet submarine best known for its highly successful torpedo attack in September 1942 that damaged or sank multiple U.S. warships in a single salvo.
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A.
Japanese submarine I-168
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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B.
Japanese destroyer Yudachi
Japanese destroyer Yudachi was an Imperial Japanese Navy Shiratsuyu-class destroyer that saw extensive action in the early Pacific War before being sunk during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.
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C.
Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze
The Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kagerō-class destroyer that saw extensive action in World War II, including major Pacific naval engagements.
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D.
Japanese destroyer Fubuki
The Japanese destroyer Fubuki was a pioneering Fubuki-class "special type" destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, renowned for its powerful armament and advanced design that influenced destroyer construction worldwide before and during World War II.
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E.
Japanese cruiser Furutaka
Japanese cruiser Furutaka was an Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser of the interwar Furutaka class that saw extensive service in the early Pacific War before being sunk in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 Description of subject: Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 was a World War II fleet submarine best known for its highly successful torpedo attack in September 1942 that damaged or sank multiple U.S. warships in a single salvo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.