Kunio Nakagawa
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Kunio Nakagawa was an Imperial Japanese Army officer best known for leading the island’s fierce and protracted defense during the World War II Battle of Peleliu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kunio Nakagawa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1426078 — 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: Kunio Nakagawa Context triple: [Battle of Peleliu, commander, Kunio Nakagawa]
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A.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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B.
Shigeo Nagashima
Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
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C.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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D.
Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
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E.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
- 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: Kunio Nakagawa Target entity description: Kunio Nakagawa was an Imperial Japanese Army officer best known for leading the island’s fierce and protracted defense during the World War II Battle of Peleliu.
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A.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
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B.
Shigeo Nagashima
Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
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C.
Tatsuhiko Kawashima
Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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D.
Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
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E.
Hideo Ohno
Hideo Ohno is a Japanese physicist renowned for his pioneering work in spintronics and semiconductor physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
Empire of Japan
|
| battle | Battle of Peleliu ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| commanded |
2nd Infantry Regiment
ⓘ
Japanese garrison on Peleliu ⓘ |
| conflict |
Pacific War
ⓘ
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ⓘ
surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1895-05-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1944-11-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Imperial Japanese Army Academy ⓘ |
| era |
Showa era
ⓘ
surface form:
Shōwa period
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Colonel ⓘ |
| knownFor | organizing a prolonged and tenacious island defense ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| militaryTheater |
Pacific Theater of Operations
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
|
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableFor | defense of Peleliu during World War II ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of Japanese forces in the Battle of Peleliu ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| opponent |
United States Army
ⓘ
United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Japanese defense of Palau Islands ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese 14th Division ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kumamoto Prefecture
ⓘ
surface form:
Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
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| placeOfDeath |
Peleliu
ⓘ
surface form:
Peleliu, Palau
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| serviceYears | 1916–1944 ⓘ |
| usedMilitaryDoctrine | defense-in-depth tactics on Peleliu ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Kunio Nakagawa Description of subject: Kunio Nakagawa was an Imperial Japanese Army officer best known for leading the island’s fierce and protracted defense during the World War II Battle of Peleliu.
Referenced by (1)
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