Yoshii Kuribayashi
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Yoshii Kuribayashi was the wife of Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the commander of Japanese forces during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yoshii Kuribayashi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1134489 — 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: Yoshii Kuribayashi Context triple: [Tadamichi Kuribayashi, spouse, Yoshii Kuribayashi]
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A.
Yamashita Tomoyuki
Yamashita Tomoyuki was a prominent World War II Japanese general best known for leading the successful 1942 conquest of Singapore, earning him the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya."
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B.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a Japanese general in World War II best known for his determined and innovative defense of Iwo Jima against U.S. forces.
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C.
Mitsuru Ushijima
Mitsuru Ushijima was a Japanese Imperial Army general best known for leading the island’s defending forces during World War II’s Battle of Okinawa.
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D.
Takeo Kurita
Takeo Kurita was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, best known for leading major surface forces in the Pacific, including at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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E.
Saburō Kurusu
Saburō Kurusu was a Japanese diplomat best known for his role in U.S.-Japan negotiations immediately before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 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: Yoshii Kuribayashi Target entity description: Yoshii Kuribayashi was the wife of Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the commander of Japanese forces during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
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A.
Yamashita Tomoyuki
Yamashita Tomoyuki was a prominent World War II Japanese general best known for leading the successful 1942 conquest of Singapore, earning him the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya."
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B.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a Japanese general in World War II best known for his determined and innovative defense of Iwo Jima against U.S. forces.
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C.
Mitsuru Ushijima
Mitsuru Ushijima was a Japanese Imperial Army general best known for leading the island’s defending forces during World War II’s Battle of Okinawa.
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D.
Takeo Kurita
Takeo Kurita was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, best known for leading major surface forces in the Pacific, including at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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E.
Saburō Kurusu
Saburō Kurusu was a Japanese diplomat best known for his role in U.S.-Japan negotiations immediately before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Japanese person
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human ⓘ military spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi ⓘ |
| residenceCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| spouse | Tadamichi Kuribayashi ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | commanding Japanese forces at the Battle of Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Imperial Japanese Army general ⓘ |
| spouseParticipatedIn |
Battle of Iwo Jima
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World War II ⓘ |
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: Yoshii Kuribayashi Description of subject: Yoshii Kuribayashi was the wife of Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the commander of Japanese forces during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.