Yasujiro Homma
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Yasujiro Homma was a Japanese general during World War II, best known for commanding the invasion of the Philippines and later being executed for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yasujiro Homma canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8977888 — 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: Yasujiro Homma Context triple: [Homma, notableBearer, Yasujiro Homma]
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A.
Imamura Shohei
Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
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B.
Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu was a seminal Japanese film director renowned for his minimalist style, low camera angles, and deeply human family dramas such as "Tokyo Story."
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C.
Sachio Kinugasa
Sachio Kinugasa was a Japanese professional baseball player famed for his ironman streak of consecutive games played, primarily as a third baseman for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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D.
Tsukada Hideo
Tsukada Hideo is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Tsukada.
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E.
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Yasujiro Tsutsumi was a powerful Japanese businessman and politician who built a vast corporate empire, including the Seibu Group, and became one of the wealthiest individuals in postwar Japan.
- 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: Yasujiro Homma Target entity description: Yasujiro Homma was a Japanese general during World War II, best known for commanding the invasion of the Philippines and later being executed for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
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A.
Imamura Shohei
Imamura Shohei was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his gritty, humanistic portrayals of postwar Japanese society and for winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice.
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B.
Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu was a seminal Japanese film director renowned for his minimalist style, low camera angles, and deeply human family dramas such as "Tokyo Story."
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C.
Sachio Kinugasa
Sachio Kinugasa was a Japanese professional baseball player famed for his ironman streak of consecutive games played, primarily as a third baseman for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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D.
Tsukada Hideo
Tsukada Hideo is a Japanese individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Tsukada.
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E.
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Yasujiro Tsutsumi was a powerful Japanese businessman and politician who built a vast corporate empire, including the Seibu Group, and became one of the wealthiest individuals in postwar Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese general
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Japan
ⓘ
surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| associatedWith | Bataan Death March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| charge | war crimes ⓘ |
| commanded | Japanese 14th Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Philippines campaign
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| convictedOf | war crimes related to the Bataan Death March ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasVictimGroup |
American prisoners of war
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Filipino prisoners of war ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II
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role in events associated with the Bataan Death March ⓘ |
| occupation | army officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Pacific War
NERFINISHED
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World War II ⓘ |
| punishment | death ⓘ |
| roleIn | invasion of the Philippines (1941–1942) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialAfter | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Yasujiro Homma Description of subject: Yasujiro Homma was a Japanese general during World War II, best known for commanding the invasion of the Philippines and later being executed for war crimes related to the Bataan Death March.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.