Kotoku Sato
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Kotoku Sato was a Japanese lieutenant general in World War II who led the 31st Division during the Burma Campaign, including the ill-fated offensive toward Kohima in India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kotoku Sato canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2846010 — 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: Kotoku Sato Context triple: [Battle of Kohima, commander, Kotoku Sato]
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A.
Koji Sato
Koji Sato is a Japanese automotive executive who serves as the president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation.
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B.
Hyakutake Seikichi
Hyakutake Seikichi was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who played a significant role during World War II.
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C.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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E.
Noda Kōichi
Noda Kōichi is a Japanese architect best known for creating the iconic Kobe Port Tower, a landmark of Kobe’s waterfront skyline.
- 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: Kotoku Sato Target entity description: Kotoku Sato was a Japanese lieutenant general in World War II who led the 31st Division during the Burma Campaign, including the ill-fated offensive toward Kohima in India.
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A.
Koji Sato
Koji Sato is a Japanese automotive executive who serves as the president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation.
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B.
Hyakutake Seikichi
Hyakutake Seikichi was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who played a significant role during World War II.
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C.
Andō Rikichi
Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
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D.
Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a powerful and controversial Japanese prime minister and political kingmaker who dominated postwar politics through his influence within the Liberal Democratic Party.
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E.
Noda Kōichi
Noda Kōichi is a Japanese architect best known for creating the iconic Kobe Port Tower, a landmark of Kobe’s waterfront skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army general
ⓘ
Japanese military officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Burma campaign
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surface form:
Burma Campaign
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Sato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kotoku ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableCommand |
31st Infantry Division
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surface form:
31st Division
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| notableOperation | offensive toward Kohima ⓘ |
| occupation | army officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Japanese invasion of India ⓘ |
| positionHeld | division commander ⓘ |
| sideInConflict |
Imperial Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| theaterOfOperations |
Myanmar
ⓘ
surface form:
Burma
India ⓘ |
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: Kotoku Sato Description of subject: Kotoku Sato was a Japanese lieutenant general in World War II who led the 31st Division during the Burma Campaign, including the ill-fated offensive toward Kohima in India.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.