Hōshō-class aircraft carrier
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The Hōshō-class aircraft carrier was an Imperial Japanese Navy warship class that included Hōshō, one of the world’s earliest purpose-built aircraft carriers and a pioneer in naval aviation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hōshō-class aircraft carrier canonical | 3 |
| Hōshō-class aircraft carriers | 1 |
| 鳳翔型航空母艦 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2451322 — 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: Hōshō-class aircraft carrier Context triple: [Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō, shipClass, Hōshō-class aircraft carrier]
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A.
Zuihō-class aircraft carrier
The Zuihō-class aircraft carrier was a small, fast Japanese light carrier class of World War II, converted from submarine tenders to provide air support for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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B.
Kaga-class aircraft carrier
The Kaga-class aircraft carrier was a planned class of Japanese aircraft carriers derived from the Izumo-class helicopter destroyers, intended to operate fixed-wing STOVL jets like the F-35B.
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C.
Hiryū-class aircraft carrier
The Hiryū-class aircraft carrier was a class of Imperial Japanese Navy fleet carriers of World War II, exemplified by the carrier Hiryū, known for its role in early Pacific War operations including the Battle of Midway.
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D.
Sōryū-class aircraft carrier
The Sōryū-class aircraft carrier was a class of fast, medium-sized Imperial Japanese Navy fleet carriers built in the late 1930s and used extensively during the early years of World War II in the Pacific.
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E.
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.
- 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: Hōshō-class aircraft carrier Target entity description: The Hōshō-class aircraft carrier was an Imperial Japanese Navy warship class that included Hōshō, one of the world’s earliest purpose-built aircraft carriers and a pioneer in naval aviation.
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A.
Zuihō-class aircraft carrier
The Zuihō-class aircraft carrier was a small, fast Japanese light carrier class of World War II, converted from submarine tenders to provide air support for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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B.
Kaga-class aircraft carrier
The Kaga-class aircraft carrier was a planned class of Japanese aircraft carriers derived from the Izumo-class helicopter destroyers, intended to operate fixed-wing STOVL jets like the F-35B.
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C.
Hiryū-class aircraft carrier
The Hiryū-class aircraft carrier was a class of Imperial Japanese Navy fleet carriers of World War II, exemplified by the carrier Hiryū, known for its role in early Pacific War operations including the Battle of Midway.
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D.
Sōryū-class aircraft carrier
The Sōryū-class aircraft carrier was a class of fast, medium-sized Imperial Japanese Navy fleet carriers built in the late 1930s and used extensively during the early years of World War II in the Pacific.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Navy ship class
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aircraft carrier class ⓘ |
| aircraftRole | carrier-based aircraft operations ⓘ |
| aircraftTypeCarried |
biplane fighters
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biplane torpedo bombers ⓘ reconnaissance aircraft ⓘ |
| armamentType |
anti-aircraft guns
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naval guns ⓘ |
| category |
Hōshō-class aircraft carrier
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hōshō-class aircraft carriers
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| countryOfOrigin |
Imperial Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| designedFor | fixed-wing aircraft operations from a flight deck ⓘ |
| designInfluencedBy | early British aircraft carrier designs ⓘ |
| era |
Interwar period
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World War II era ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
full-length flight deck
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hangar deck for aircraft storage ⓘ island-less early configuration ⓘ |
| hasMember | Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō ⓘ |
| hasNameInJapanese |
Hōshō-class aircraft carrier
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
鳳翔型航空母艦
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| hasSingleCompletedUnit | true ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| locationCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō ⓘ |
| navalBranch |
Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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surface form:
Japanese Combined Fleet
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| navalDoctrineInfluence | development of Japanese carrier task force tactics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being among the world’s earliest purpose-built aircraft carrier classes
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pioneering naval aviation operations for Japan ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | converted aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam turbine ⓘ |
| role |
carrier aviation experimentation
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fleet scouting ⓘ pilot training ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1920s ⓘ |
| shipType | fleet aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| usedInConflict |
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
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surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
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: Hōshō-class aircraft carrier Description of subject: The Hōshō-class aircraft carrier was an Imperial Japanese Navy warship class that included Hōshō, one of the world’s earliest purpose-built aircraft carriers and a pioneer in naval aviation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hōshō-class aircraft carriers
Hōshō-class aircraft carrier
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hasNameInJapanese
→
Hōshō-class aircraft carrier
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
鳳翔型航空母艦