Otozō Yamada

E57193

Japanese general human

Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Otozō Yamada canonical	3

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese general ⓘ human ⓘ
allegiance	Japan ⓘ surface form: Empire of Japan
associatedWith	Manchukuo ⓘ
commanded	Japanese occupation of Manchuria ⓘ surface form: Japanese forces in Manchuria Japanese Kwantung Army ⓘ surface form: Kwantung Army
conflict	Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ⓘ surface form: Second Sino–Japanese War Soviet–Japanese War (1945) ⓘ surface form: Soviet–Japanese War World War II ⓘ
convictedOf	war crimes ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Japan ⓘ surface form: Empire of Japan
detentionLocation	China ⓘ surface form: People's Republic of China Soviet Union ⓘ
era	Showa era ⓘ surface form: Shōwa period
familyName	Yamada ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	Otozō ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup	Japanese ⓘ
historicalRole	senior Japanese military leader in late World War II ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Japanese ⓘ
laterReleasedBy	China ⓘ surface form: People's Republic of China
memberOf	Imperial Japanese Army General Staff ⓘ
militaryBranch	Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ
militaryRank	general ⓘ
militaryTheater	Soviet–Japanese War (1945) ⓘ surface form: Manchurian theater of World War II
name	Otozō Yamada self-link ⓘ
nativeName	山田乙三 ⓘ
notableEvent	Soviet–Japanese War (1945) ⓘ surface form: Soviet invasion of Manchuria (August 1945)
notableFor	command of Kwantung Army during final stages of World War II ⓘ final commander of the Kwantung Army ⓘ leadership during collapse of Japanese control in Manchuria ⓘ role in Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945 ⓘ
occupation	military officer ⓘ
partOf	Japanese high command in Manchukuo ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Manchuria ⓘ
positionHeld	Commander of the 12th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) ⓘ Commander of the 1st Area Army (Imperial Japanese Army) ⓘ Commander of the 3rd Army (Imperial Japanese Army) ⓘ Commander of the Japanese Kwantung Defense Army ⓘ Ishiwara Kanji ⓘ surface form: Commander of the Kwantung Army
servedIn	Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ
sphereOfInfluence	East Asia ⓘ surface form: Northeast Asia
surrenderedTo	Soviet Union ⓘ
wasPrisonerOfWar	Soviet Union ⓘ
wasTriedBy	International Military Tribunal for the Far East ⓘ surface form: Soviet military tribunal

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: Otozō Yamada
Description of subject: Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Soviet–Japanese War (1945) → combatantCommander → Otozō Yamada ⓘ

Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation → commander → Otozō Yamada ⓘ

Otozō Yamada → name → Otozō Yamada self-link ⓘ