Tora! Tora! Tora!
E53157
Tora! Tora! Tora! is the famous coded Japanese radio signal sent by air commander Mitsuo Fuchida to indicate complete surprise had been achieved during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tora! Tora! Tora! canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T422770 — 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: Tora! Tora! Tora! Context triple: [Mitsuo Fuchida, usedPhrase, Tora! Tora! Tora!]
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A.
Operation Ten-Go
Operation Ten-Go was the final major Japanese naval sortie of World War II, a desperate 1945 mission centered on the battleship Yamato’s one-way attack toward Okinawa.
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B.
Operation Typhoon
Operation Typhoon was the German Wehrmacht’s 1941 offensive aimed at capturing Moscow during World War II, whose failure marked a major turning point on the Eastern Front.
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C.
Downfall
Downfall is the codename for the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.
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D.
Operation Ichi-Go
Operation Ichi-Go was a major 1944 Japanese military offensive in China during World War II aimed at securing railways, destroying U.S. air bases, and linking Japanese-held territories.
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E.
Defense of the Reich
Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
- 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: Tora! Tora! Tora! Target entity description: Tora! Tora! Tora! is the famous coded Japanese radio signal sent by air commander Mitsuo Fuchida to indicate complete surprise had been achieved during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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A.
Operation Ten-Go
Operation Ten-Go was the final major Japanese naval sortie of World War II, a desperate 1945 mission centered on the battleship Yamato’s one-way attack toward Okinawa.
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B.
Operation Typhoon
Operation Typhoon was the German Wehrmacht’s 1941 offensive aimed at capturing Moscow during World War II, whose failure marked a major turning point on the Eastern Front.
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C.
Downfall
Downfall is the codename for the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.
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D.
Operation Ichi-Go
Operation Ichi-Go was a major 1944 Japanese military offensive in China during World War II aimed at securing railways, destroying U.S. air bases, and linking Japanese-held territories.
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E.
Defense of the Reich
Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese military code phrase
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coded message ⓘ radio signal ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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surface form:
Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet
Mitsuo Fuchida ⓘ |
| battle |
Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII)
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surface form:
Pearl Harbor
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| category |
Japanese naval aviation history
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World War II military communications ⓘ |
| codeNature | prearranged phrase ⓘ |
| communicationType | coded combat signal ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| date | 1941-12-07 ⓘ |
| era | 1940s ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | symbol of the surprise at Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| meaning | complete surprise achieved ⓘ |
| militaryFunction | tactical status report ⓘ |
| notableFor | confirming success of surprise attack ⓘ |
| operation | Operation AI ⓘ |
| popularCultureInfluence | title of 1970 film "Tora! Tora! Tora!" ⓘ |
| purpose | indicate tactical surprise ⓘ |
| repeatedWord | Tora ⓘ |
| senderAffiliation | Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service ⓘ |
| senderRank | air commander ⓘ |
| sentBy | Mitsuo Fuchida ⓘ |
| statusIndicated | surprise successfully achieved ⓘ |
| targetCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| targetLocation |
Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
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surface form:
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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| transmissionMedium | radio ⓘ |
| usedBy | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| usedDuring | attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tora! Tora! Tora! Description of subject: Tora! Tora! Tora! is the famous coded Japanese radio signal sent by air commander Mitsuo Fuchida to indicate complete surprise had been achieved during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.