2nd Carrier Division
E47044
The 2nd Carrier Division was a key Imperial Japanese Navy carrier formation in World War II, notably involved in major Pacific campaigns such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Second Carrier Division | 2 |
| 2nd Carrier Division canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T368745 — 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: 2nd Carrier Division Context triple: [First Air Fleet, formedFrom, 2nd Carrier Division]
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A.
First Carrier Division
The First Carrier Division was a key Imperial Japanese Navy formation of aircraft carriers that played a central role in early Pacific War operations, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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B.
Third Fleet
The Third Fleet is a major operational formation of the United States Navy responsible for naval forces and operations in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Seventh Fleet
The Seventh Fleet is a major operational formation of the United States Navy responsible for naval forces and operations in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.
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D.
Fourth Fleet
The Fourth Fleet was a major operational formation of the Imperial Japanese Navy, tasked with conducting naval operations across specific Pacific regions during the early stages of World War II.
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E.
Sixth Fleet
The Sixth Fleet was a major operational formation of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, primarily responsible for commanding and coordinating submarine forces.
- 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: 2nd Carrier Division Target entity description: The 2nd Carrier Division was a key Imperial Japanese Navy carrier formation in World War II, notably involved in major Pacific campaigns such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway.
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A.
First Carrier Division
The First Carrier Division was a key Imperial Japanese Navy formation of aircraft carriers that played a central role in early Pacific War operations, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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B.
Third Fleet
The Third Fleet is a major operational formation of the United States Navy responsible for naval forces and operations in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Seventh Fleet
The Seventh Fleet is a major operational formation of the United States Navy responsible for naval forces and operations in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.
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D.
Fourth Fleet
The Fourth Fleet was a major operational formation of the Imperial Japanese Navy, tasked with conducting naval operations across specific Pacific regions during the early stages of World War II.
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E.
Sixth Fleet
The Sixth Fleet was a major operational formation of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, primarily responsible for commanding and coordinating submarine forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: 2nd Carrier Division Description of subject: The 2nd Carrier Division was a key Imperial Japanese Navy carrier formation in World War II, notably involved in major Pacific campaigns such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Second Carrier Division
this entity surface form:
Second Carrier Division